It was nine years ago that a young volunteer working at a World Cup mountain bike race at Mont Ste-Anne, Que. became swept up in the emotion of the riders. “I was looking at the girls and the feelings they seemed to have at the finish line,” Marie-Helene Premont remembered […]
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A year or so ago, veteran kayaker Eirik Larsen agreed to take in a precocious kid from Canada and share with him some of the secrets of the powerful Norwegian paddling team. It wasn’t long before Larsen realized the person sleeping on his sofa was developing into a threat—something Adam […]
Fort Frances tot Alicia Delbridge is showing more signs of improvement as she battles a rare, life-threatening heart ailment in a Calgary hospital, her father reported Thursday. Cory Delbridge, assistant manager at the Canada Safeway store here, wrote in an e-mail that the results of an echo-cardiogram taken Thursday showed […]
Duane Carlson of Sight & Sound has many sayings he uses during games, but one of his favourites is “Hit it hard and run fast—hit it harder and jog.” And though the strong winds at VanJura Stadium here last night didn’t allow them to jog off their usual slew of […]
With the ninth-annual Fort Frances Times Great Chili Cook-off tentatively scheduled for Friday, Sept. 17, organizers are looking for a few good chefs. This year’s organizer, Gabe Glueheisen, said yesterday she’s in the process of contacting chili teams that expressed interest last year in participating again. “We’ve had confirmation from […]
Construction on the $12.5-million Phase IV project at La Verendrye Hospital here is well on schedule, Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. reported this week. Project manager Ed Cousineau has said the new addition to the south of the existing structure has been erected and the roof is expected to be […]
Team Canada is back on track. Vincent Lecavalier, Joe Sakic, and Brad Richards scored in the second period as Canada downed the United States 3-1 in a World Cup of Hockey exhibition game last night. The victory avenged a 3-1 loss to the Americans on Monday night in Columbus and […]
Expos manager Frank Robinson didn’t know he had reached a career milestone, but his players wouldn’t let him forget. Brian Schneider’s three-run homer in the sixth provided the go-ahead runs as the Montreal Expos knocked four home runs last night to propel them to a 6-3 win over the L.A. […]
This is it. Win, or you’re out. Kaput. Finnito. Finished. The stage is set for tonight’s Rainy River District Fastball League playoff game between host Sight & Sound and Big Grassy, with the winner playing Barwick for the league championship on Tuesday. Game time is 8 p.m. at VanJura Stadium. […]
Thanks to some help from the public, police nabbed a Couchiching First Nation man for impaired driving, among other charges, on Tuesday afternoon. Around 2:30 p.m. that day, Fort Frances OPP officers received a phone call from a concerned citizen reporting that a southbound vehicle on Highway 71 was being […]
Bell Canada, in partnership with Pwi-di-goo-zing Ne-yaa-zhing Advisory Services here, is in the process of installing digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet lines in Rainy River District, with the service expected to be up and running this fall. “Work has absolutely begun,” Bell spokeswoman Nessa Prendergast said Wednesday. “The expected timeline […]
Alicia Delbridge of Fort Frances is showing signs of gradual improvement in a Calgary hospital, where she has been since Aug. 6 after being stricken with a mysterious, potentially-fatal heart condition, her father said in an e-mail Wednesday. The one-year-old was on a respirator for nearly two weeks before doctors […]
