Sandi Elliott could have been promoted to head of the “service” department after turning the Kenora Broncos’ hope of an upset on its ear. Elliott erased a 20-14 deficit in the fourth set with nine-straight points from behind the service line, including a pair of aces, to clinch a 25-22 […]
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Happy New Year to everyone from the Men’s Breakfast Ministry, which meets on the third Saturday of each month at 8 a.m. at the Emo Legion. This Saturday (Jan. 17), the guest speaker will be Rick Plett of Linden, Alta. He is with the Gospel Troubadours Prison Ministry. On Jan. […]
On Feb. 19, 2002, Kristin Roehrig never would have guessed that she had just seen her team record its last NorWOSSA point for some time to come. On Friday night, the captain of the Muskie girls’ hockey team finally got her chance to speak about something other than a regular-season […]
The Muskie junior boys’ basketball squad turned their season around so quickly, they may have suffered whiplash. After losing their first two games of the NorWOSSA campaign by a combined 46 points, the black-and-gold (1-2) battled to an impressive 55-46 victory over the visiting Kenora Broncos last Thursday at “The […]
The Rainy River District School Board took time out from Tuesday night’s meeting to recognize the accomplishments of its staff when chairman Dan Belluz presented a Recognition of Excellence certificate to Kendall Olsen and his mentoring committee. “Our mentors are one of our greatest assets in our ongoing professional development,” […]
The new federal riding boundaries have not been formally drawn yet but one man already is standing at the gate eager to run for the NDP in Thunder Bay-Rainy River. Larry Richardson, who says he is 65 and holding, has deep roots in the Fort Frances area. He was in […]
Dear editor: The new year of 2004 is upon us and it is a time to reflect on 2003. Once again, our community has given freely to those most needy during the Christmas season. Our fourth-annual “Mitts for Kids—Helping Hands” campaign was a good example of this. We were able […]
Sharon Tibbs has been spending a great deal of her time lately surrounded by mountains of books in the basement of Sixth Street School until the renovations at J.W. Walker School are complete. “I’m the troll in the basement,” she laughed of her long hours in the bowels of the […]
After coming back before council with the blessing of the Community Services executive committee, the new community activities committee proposed by Mayor Dan Onichuk last month will become a reality. “I’m happy we’re moving forward,” Mayor Onichuk said at Monday night’s council meeting. “Now we can advertise [for committee members].” […]
For coming so close to getting a shot at the title, Muskie boys’ hockey head coach Shane Bliss wasn’t exactly doing handsprings. “We could have played better,” a disappointed Bliss said after the black-and-gold finished with a 3-2 loss to the Oak Park Raiders in Sunday’s bronze-medal game of the […]
A total of $56.365 was divided up between 14 local recipients Monday night as the town disbursed money from the Moffat Family Fund on behalf of the Winnipeg Foundation. The recipient of the largest portion of this sum was the Kiwanis skate park committee, which got $12,500 towards the proposed […]
Dear sir: We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you from the bottom of our hearts to all of the kind and generous people who were involved in any way with the Dec. 28 fundraising tea given on our behalf. First of all, we’d like to thank […]
