For the first time in the history of the Emo-Devlin-Barwick Minor Hockey Association, a tournament was held within a tournament as the PeeWee girls combined their games with the boys. And according to organizers, everything went without a hitch. The four-team girls’ tourney featured host Emo squaring off against Taylor […]
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Dear editor: After reading about the beef farmers’ troubles for a few months, it brings back memories about commercial fishing in this area. In the early 1970s, the commercial fishermen received an awful jolt. Word came from the federal government to pull all walleye and northern nets from the water […]
Emo pharmacist Greg Asplund has been breathing much easier lately. The reason being he now has a permanent pharmacist on board at Emo Drugs—a young gentleman rooted at Devlin. Scheduling days off for his own relaxation, Asplund now will be able to attend to other things within the drug store […]
About 250 people attended the launch of “Connections,” La Vallee’s history book, on Saturday evening at the Devlin Hall. A wine-and-cheese topped off the evening. The people involved with the planning deserve a big applause. Be sure to plan on attending the many other activities to celebrate La Vallee’s centennial […]
Atikokan OPP, with the assistance of the Atikokan Police Service, continue to investigate the death a 22-year-old woman there. The body of Adele Matinet was discovered by a family member in her residence at 109 Mercury Ave. in Atikokan on Saturday. Results of the post-mortem conducted Monday are not being […]
The last time Patricia Thompson saw her little sister, they were playing tea together with their mother at the little girl’s foster home in Fort Frances. Thompson didn’t know at the time that would be the last time she saw her youngest sibling, but she is determined to find her […]
A combination of creative teaching and federal funding has given a group of local students an opportunity to try their hands at engineering. The Grade 7-8 classes at J.W. Walker School (housed at Sixth Street School during renovations at their own school) last week unveiled their science projects, which turned […]
The Emo Bantam Stars invaded Atikokan for their annual hockey tournament last weekend and came home with the ‘A’ championship. It was the team’s third ‘A’ crown this season and lifted their tournament record for 2003-04 to an incredible 23-1. The Stars faced the Williams Flyers (Atikokan) in Sunday’s ‘A’ […]
Each of four NorWOSSA finals on Friday featured the Muskies and host Dryden Eagles going head-to-head. The Eagles won gold in three of the four matches, but the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team prevented the sweep—winning 85-74 to advance to the best-of-three NWOSSAA final, which Fort High will host this […]
More than 200 people jammed into the Devlin Community Hall on Saturday evening to see the unveiling of a history book project that was years in the making—and they were not disappointed. Joyce Witherspoon, a member of the La Vallee centennial committee, told the packed house what they had gathered […]
A new user fee schedule presented to the committee of the whole during a special meeting Monday afternoon will see a $200,000 increase in revenues to the 2004 budget shortfall of $2.8-million, treasurer Peggy Dupuis said afterwards. But as to what the revised fees—and any new ones—may mean to the […]
It sometimes seems to people in Borderland that we are ignored by the population and power centres down south. That can be as true in Minnesota as it is here in Ontario, but for one day last week, others were paying attention. Tremendous Entertainment, a production company based in Minneapolis, […]
