It is with great sadness that our family announces the passing of our dear mother, Diana, on March 16, 2004. She was loved and will be missed by her children, Susanna and husband, Gary Barker, of Fort Frances, Ont., Angela and husband, Bruce Strandhagen, of Melrose, Fla., and Mike Jr. […]
fftimes
Alberton Fire Chief Cory Jewell asked council at last Wednesday night’s meeting for funds to purchase a rescue vehicle for the department. He said he was looking for a good, used cube van with a one-ton chassis that easily can be modified to carry the emergency equipment required. Council authorized […]
People accustomed to taking Frog Creek Road as a high-speed alternative to Highway 11/71 may have to re-think that strategy down the road. At its regular meeting last Wednesday (March 10), Alberton council proposed to lower the speed limit on Frog Creek Road from the current 80 km/h to 50 […]
It was sensory overload on Sand Bay last weekend as 64 racers descended on Fort Frances for the fifth-annual Canadian Kitty Cat Championship. Gas was flowing, the engines were roaring, and six snowmobiles at a time blurred past spectators in an event that gets larger every year. “It was the […]
It’s now a best-of-five series. The Borderland Thunder split the first two games of their semi-final showdown in Dryden last weekend and now will be looking to gain a stranglehold over the Ice Dogs with a pair of wins here this Friday and Saturday night. The puck drops at 7:30 […]
The Thunder Bay Queens, featuring local player Sarah Barton, earned a silver medal in women’s hockey at the Ontario Winter Games in London last weekend. The Queens, who played two exhibition games here last month, represented Northwestern Ontario at the Games. “Sarah did good,” said her dad, Clint, who went […]
The Scott Gobeil rink was 3-3 heading into play today at the 2004 Canadian Police Curling Championship in Hamilton. The rink, representing Manitoba, was scheduled to play British Columbia this morning and then New Brunswick this afternoon. The bonspiel started Sunday and will wrap up Saturday. Gobeil, a local OPP […]
The Muskie cheerleaders won’t be participating in the provincial championship next month in Mississauga after all. Since placing first in the large (20+ members) all-girl event at the regional showdown in Thunder Bay late last month, the black-and-gold have lost three team members, making it to difficult to redesign their […]
Local players Megan Canfield, 18, and Steven Boileau, 14, helped Northwestern Ontario finish seventh in the squash competition at the Ontario Winter Games in London last weekend. The team had been ranked sixth out of eight heading into the Games, where scores were based on all eight-team members (i.e., one […]
There still was some Emo-Devlin-Barwick Minor Hockey Association action at the Emo Arena this past week. In the PeeWee division, the Thunderbolts did not fare well, losing three of four games. The Emo Cobras got three first-period tallies and one more in the second en route to a 4-1 win […]
A dozen members of the Fort Frances K of C Knights PeeWee ‘AA’ squad have joined three players from Kenora and another two from Red Lake to compete in the regional playoffs this weekend in Schreiber. The team, which also includes Knights coach Don McCool on its coaching staff, will […]
The changes to the federal electoral boundaries became official last Thursday when the legislation received royal assent. Under the legislation, the old Kenora-Rainy River riding has been severed, with Rainy River District joining with the former Thunder Bay-Atikokan riding to form Thunder Bay-Rainy River. Kenora, meanwhile, becomes a stand-alone riding. […]
