Spring usually accentuates the colour green, but gold and bronze were more the style of the Northwest Tae Kwon Do team. Under the guidance of instructor Ken Anderson, the Fort Frances martial arts club raked in 10 medals during the Can-Am Games in Winnipeg on April 26. The 14-member squad […]
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Area residents who don’t mind lending a helping hand were in the spotlight last Wednesday night during the seventh-annual volunteer recognition banquet at the local Legion. Held in conjunction with National Volunteer Week, this year’s event saw 12 volunteers honoured, including Iva Koski, Ray Dolph, Anna McNay, Daniel and Sidney […]
With a simple “yea, yea, yea,” trustees with the Rainy River District School Board ratified three contract agreements reached with three different unions at their monthly meeting Tuesday night at Donald Young School in Emo. All three contracts were two-year agreements, retroactive to Sept. 1, 2002 and running to Aug. […]
A new angle on the industrial arts has been constructed for area youth. Don and Linda Tauer of Pinewood Construction Services in Pinewood have been hosting classes for kids from Grade 6-12 called the Youth Entrepreneur Woodworking Program. The first six youngsters—from Stratton, Devlin, Fort Frances, and Baudette—are home-school students […]
Although the verdict is still out whether the town will provide $150,000 in interim bridge funding to the proposed skatepark project, a local businessman has agreed to pick up the tab if the Kiwanis Club is unable to pay that borrowed money back in three years. “Since I’ve put the […]
The Sturgeon Creek Alternative Program (SCAP) held its spring concert to a full house at the Christian Reformed Church in Emo last Thursday evening. The theme was “Growing in God’s Love.” If you missed this musical extravaganza, you were denied a praise to God occasion that had most of the […]
The benefits have been worth the wait for Lindsay Swerhun. The 14-year-old disabled athlete, along with four other Fort Frances participants and two more from International Falls, is thrilled to be able to take part in the weekly special needs gymnastics program, which runs every Sunday from 2-3:30 p.m. at […]
The Rainy River District School Board approved awarding a $4.8-million contract for the expansion and renovation project at J.W. Walker School here to a Thunder Bay contractor at its monthly board meeting Tuesday night held at Donald Young School in Emo. The contract, which is $200,000 more than the estimate […]
A gruelling stretch of games, and an unfortunate finale, weren’t enough to douse the boundless energy of a basketball team that was just happy to be on the court. The Fort Frances regional girls’ squad put their noses to the grindstone at the nine-team Basketball Manitoba Juvenile ‘B’ girls’ regional […]
It will be tea and crumpets for Alex Parent while Boyd Badiuk’s menu will be southern fried. The two Aquanauts are heading off to some big-time events at two separate far-off destinations this summer after being chosen to a pair of swimming’s elite groups. Parent is bound for Sheffield, England […]
One team’s relegation is another team’s devastation. After winning the Winnipeg high school soccer invitational tournament last year, an untimely loss left the Fort Frances Muskies playing for the ‘C’ division title at the same event last weekend. And they vented their anger at their fate by manhandling Tec Voc […]
Local business owner Kim Metke’s appeal of town council’s decision to re-zone property at 1250 King’s Highway—the likely future site of a Wal-Mart—was dismissed last Thursday morning by the Ontario Municipal Board. And now Metke, owner of Pharmasave and Clinic Pharmasave here, is hoping the situation will turn out the […]
