After five years of devoted service to the community with the Fort Frances Salvation Army, Capt. Eric Alcock and his wife, Sylvia, will be packing up and moving out. Not because they want to leave, but because they must leave. Word came last month from the Salvation Army headquarters in […]
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The local Rendezvous Yacht Club has broken the ice on another season of competition, but it will be a slippery task for the various skippers to get a grip on the series championship. Through three races so far this year, Todd Hamilton and his Tanzer 22 boat, “Through,” lead the […]
A Canadian woman and her son have been living in a small motel room here in Fort Frances, subsisting on donations of food and money, since May 28 when they tried to cross back to the United States with her American husband. Jackie Berry, 52, her son, Jason VanderHorst, 23, […]
Last Thursday (June 5) was the final day for the “Wheels to Meals” program for area seniors at the Emo Legion until the fall. The day started with carpet bowling, with 22 taking part. Everyone on hand then settled down to a potluck lunch, prepared by the seniors themselves, and […]
Starting the week of June 22, the Stratton Toy Library will change its Thursday hours to 9 a.m.-3 p.m. instead of 1-7 p.m. In other news, the winner of the recent 50/50 draw there was Robert Anderson. The draw was made by Brett Guba of Eden Prairie, Mn. A big […]
He got his trapper on almost everything else sent his way this past season so it was little surprise goalie Dan Hoehne grabbed the highest accolade available on the Borderland Thunder. The Duluth, Mn. native skated away with the Jim Witherspoon Memorial Trophy as the team’s Most Valuable Player during […]
If Curves and Taggs were thinking they could sleepwalk to a pair of championship repeats this season, both Gillons’ teams just gave them a wake-up call. Laureen Cousineau notched a pair of goals as Gillons’ (2-0) toppled the defending women’s league champs 3-2 last Wednesday in Borderland Soccer Association play […]
The annual Treaty Day celebration took place at Couchiching First Nation last Friday with the usual festivities, except one. New to the event this year was Couchiching’s very own version of the popular television series “Fear Factor.” Becky Mainville, the elementary/secondary educational counsellor for Couchiching and one of the organizers […]
All her athletic life, Michelle Sawatzky-Koop was labelled as too small. But with undaunted persistence, she proved anyone can walk alongside the giants. The Steinbach, Man. native and former Olympian, as the starting setter with the Canadian women’s national volleyball team, offered a message of hope and hard work while […]
The owner of Plaza Lanes is confident a move to more modern ways can mean a return to the past. “We want to bring the bowling centre back to where it was,” Arnie Rollins, who also owns the bowling alley in Dryden, said about his commitment of roughly $150,000 to […]
Last week, 50 youths aged 12-15 came together in Thunder Bay to attend the second-annual First Nations and Inuit National Science Camp—and to enjoy the sights that attract any tourist. But these were not your regular tourists. They came from as far away as the Yukon and northern Baffin Island, […]
See no losses, hear no losses, speak only of perfection. Sight & Sound (8-0) built upon their fast early-season start with a 4-3 win over Pinewood, then nipped Barwick by a 6-5 margin, to tighten their grip atop the Rainy River District Fastball League. The top guns also posted a […]
