The last time Fort Frances hosted the all-Ontario high school hockey championships, the hometown crowd witnessed a Hollywood ending as their beloved Muskies captured provincial gold. The sequel has been 14 years in the making, but it’s now closer than ever to becoming reality. As first reported in Monday’s Daily […]
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Sights and sounds of the ’50s will flood the banquet room at the Red Dog Inn next Saturday (Feb. 22) as the Riverside Foundation for Health Care holds its sixth-annual fundraiser dinner. But those who want to wear their poodle skirts—and dungarees and motorcycle jackets—for an evening and relive the […]
Noted author, historian, and journalist Gwynne Dyer shared his thoughts regarding the pending war in Iraq with Fort High students packed into the Townshend Theatre on Thursday afternoon. Dyer made a 90-minute stop here during a busy tour that took him from International Falls to Rainy River to Fort Frances […]
The coaches of the Muskie court squads lead NorWOSSA in two categories this morning: stress lines on their foreheads and smiles on their faces. TSN wasn’t in the building, but it was made-for-television excitement yesterday afternoon at the “Fish Tank” as three of the four Muskie teams took it to […]
Shirley Noreen Brigden was born May 31, 1931 in Fort Frances, Ont. She attended school in Fort Frances and worked in Nestor Falls, Ont. as a cabin girl, where she met her future husband, Harry. They were married March 5, 1955 in Victoria, B.C. After they were married, they lived […]
Elsie Mary Johanson, 86, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away peacefully Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2003 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances. Elsie was born July 12, 1916 in Kakabeka Falls, Ont., the eldest daughter in a family of four, to Clarence and Ellen Eady. At an early age, […]
The deadline may be this Saturday, but the challenge is on. Following a deluge of responses from Thunder Bay residents to name the local $3 centennial coin, the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce wants to hear what residents here think it should be called. “We’ve had a wonderful response, the […]
The new Borderland Reads International Book Club has chosen its book—and it’s Canadian. The club selected “The Stone Diaries” by Carol Shields, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 and the Governor General’s Award for fiction in 1993, and also was nominated for the 1993 Booker Prize. “The main reason […]
Fisticuffs rather than flowers were the gifts of choice Wednesday night in a wild pre-Valentine’s match-up between the SIJHL’s current top dog and last year’s best in show. Chris Shaen’s fifth of the season early in the third was the game-winner as the Borderland Thunder (26-8-5-1) downed the host Dryden […]
In a preview of their successful tournament run, the Wildcats used a big night last Thursday to make the lone move up in the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League standings. A five-point outing for the Wildcats, combined with the Power Paks being shut out, boosted them into fifth place with […]
Given the uproar surrounding Dr. Pete Sarsfield’s determination to take district businesses to court—using taxpayers’ money—to force them to comply with his ban on smoking in all enclosed public places, this isn’t the best time for the Northwestern Health Unit to be going to district municipalities seeking a five percent […]
A philosophical change brought on by necessity couldn’t douse the red-hot run of the Fort Frances Firemen Flames. Without their top defenceman for most of the game, the Flames hunkered down and managed to hold off the Westfort Rangers (Thunder Bay) 1-0 to win the PeeWee ‘A’ crown at the […]
