The defending champions are back in control. Curves moved into first place with a 2-1 win over second-place Gillons’ on June 18—and maintained their lead this past week in women’s Borderland Soccer Association play. Kate Basaraba had both goals for Curves (6-1) against Gillons’ while Susie Grynol had the lone […]
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A trend is starting to establish itself during the Rendezvous Yacht Club’s racing season, and it’s one that works just fine for Ron Bowman and Quinn McCarthy. Bowman sailed off with his third-straight win in the club’s Wednesday night spring racing series June 25 as he guided “In Tune” over […]
Anne Sullivan transferred to Emo from Thamesville as the new manager of the LCBO in June, 1983, replacing Jimmy James. Having started with the LCBO in 1979, she was one of the first 10 female managers for the LCBO. Sullivan first lived at the home of Marcel DeGagne, who at […]
The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth will have a Fort Frances feel to it for the second-straight year. Fort Frances natives Dean McLean and his son, Peter, will be back in Cowtown this week taking part in the wild horse racing and wild cow milking competitions at the Calgary Stampede. […]
A pair of local sibling swimmers set the pace for the Fort Frances Aquanauts last weekend at the Man.-Sask. long-course swimming showdown in Regina. Rachel Dutton made four finals, registering a team-best fourth place finish in the girls’ 13-14 800m freestyle race. Her older sister, Heather, splashed her way into […]
The gymnasium at Our Lady of the Way School was filled for the graduation exercise of the Class of 2003 last Monday evening. The facility was decorated with blue and white streamers and balloons (the school’s colours). This year’s Grade 8 graduates were Chad Blackburde, Chantelle Bragg, William Brandon, Curtis […]
It’s time to find out whether Jared Catholique-Bruyere’s remarkable story this season will have a happy ending. The 16-year-old local judoist has pieced together a monumental season—and takes his unbeaten record to Toronto this week for the junior national championships running tomorrow through Saturday. “I’m just concentrating on keeping it […]
The Muskie senior football team will have to be on their ‘A’ game this season—the first half of which will be spent away from the green grass of home. Under the Winnipeg High School Football League’s schedule, released this past week, the black-and-gold won’t host a game until Oct. 3. […]
The Christian Reformed Church in Emo will be hosting a homecoming weekend next Saturday and Sunday (July 12-13) in conjunction with its 50th anniversary celebrations. Saturday’s activities will begin with breakfast from 9-11 a.m. Then there will be a welcome by the council and the dedication of five local trees—one […]
On a sun-soaked day, the Devlin ball diamond was overcome by Shade. Charlotte Bazylewski and Ron Kellar each had four RBIs as the Fort Frances squad racked up nine runs in each of the first two innings to dump Up North (Devlin) 23-10 in the ‘A’ final of a slo-pitch […]
Three Grade 4/5 students—Marissa Smith, Paige Vien, and Jordan Ogden—spent weeks creating a storybook to honour a retiring teacher at Donald Young School in Emo. Helen Mose is retiring after spending many years in the Grade 2 classroom. The story is about a fictitious former student of Mrs. Mose who […]
Another school year has come to an end and elementary schools across the district took time late last month to recognize the accomplishments of their top students. Crossroads School in Devlin invested two days for the occasion—and there was a lot of hardware handed out. On June 23, the Grade […]
