Two years into the program, organization of Fort High’s golf club is getting a little better. The club, which has seven student members, ran a tournament at Kitchen Creek Golf Course here last week, coming in fourth, with Red Lake taking first place. The highlight of the tournament was a […]
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“Here they come—the boys in the bright white sports car.” Well, the cars weren’t exactly white at the opening of the stock car racing season at the Emo Speedway on Saturday night, but Trooper’s 1976 hit got one detail right: they were bright. The 24 cars that competed in the […]
According to her mother, volleyball is Kate Elliott’s sport. Which might explain why she was named the MVP for Muskie senior girls’ volleyball for 2003-04. “Whether we were up on the scoreboard or down on the scoreboard, she excelled in every game,” said senior girls’ coach Char Bliss, who named […]
Two local football players are left before the final tryouts for Football Manitoba’s under-17 team. The team, which will be cut from 55 to 36 during practice June 11-13, will compete against at least six other teams later this summer in Kitchener. Muskie ‘A’ football coach Bob Swing approached a […]
The outgoing president and one of the founders of the FFHS Athletic Association executive was heavily-honoured at the Muskies’ awards banquet last night. Andrew George, who graduates this year after playing basketball and football for Fort High, was named the ‘A’ football team’s MVP, winner of the Brent Ogden Memorial […]
Even the stormy weather could not deter the participants from coming out for the 10th-annual “Big Bike” fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation here last Wednesday. Six teams participated this year, including Abitibi-Consolidated, Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc., the CIBC, Wal-Mart, Couchiching First Nation, and Fort Frances High School. […]
Local mill workers will be taking a strike vote sometime before June 7 after negotiations between the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada and Abitibi-Consolidated broke off Saturday in Montreal. The talks ended following 15 days of bargaining. CEP bargaining representatives from 14 Abitibi-Consolidated mills in Ontario, Quebec, New […]
J.W. Walker School here has topped the list of elementary schools in Ontario, according to the Fraser Institute’s annual Report Card on Ontario’s Elementary Schools. J.W. Walker earned a perfect 10 out of 10 score, along with 30 other schools in the province, most of which are located in urban […]
With the deadline for nominations having come and gone Monday, it looks like an election for positions on the board of directors of Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. won’t be needed again this year when it holds its annual meeting June 24 in Emo. “I would doubt it,” Riverside CEO […]
Business was booming after hours last Wednesday night during the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s mix-and-mingle at La Place Rendez-Vous. It was the best turnout the Chamber has seen since it re-introduced the monthly mix-and-mingles last May. The event, organized by the Business After-Hours committee of the Chamber, boasted a […]
Federal Liberal candidate Ken Boshcoff paid a visit to the Sunset Country Métis office here last Thursday, only days before both the federal election call and Aboriginal Awareness Week. “As former mayor Thunder Bay and president of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, I’ve been building lots of bridges of […]
An athlete who qualified for the all-Ontarios twice in the same school year, as well as one who went to OFSAA in consecutive years in two different sports, were crowned as the top female and male Muskie athletes at Tuesday night’s athletic awards banquet at La Place Rendez-Vous. Heather Dutton […]
