Local youths who dream of soaring through the skies in jet planes will have something to look forward to as the Rainy Lake Air Cadet Squadron #908 holds registration for the first time here tomorrow night (Sept. 18). Registration gets underway at 7 p.m. at the Memorial Sports Centre, and […]
fftimes
After chairing the “Re-Inventing Fort Frances” committee since its inception last year, Janis Lesko has decided to leave the group and move to Kenora for a job with local MP Robert Nault’s office. “We received her resignation yesterday,” said Fort Frances CAO Bill Naturkach, who also sits on the committee. […]
How stressed is stressed? Clinic Pharmasave is trying to help people find out how high their stress level is during a stress management clinic tomorrow from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the Rainycrest auditorium. To register for the clinic, which still has a couple of spaces open, call 274-6204 […]
While the numbers may not have been as high as last year, the annual Terry Fox Run here yesterday was deemed a success, raising about $8,600 with more money yet to come in. “I think it went pretty well,” organizer Vanessa Hebert, executive director of the Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau, […]
They’re on the board, but still not in the win column. The Muskie ‘A’ football team registered its first points of the season, but a stingy St. Paul Crusaders defence and nagging mental errors cost them a 32-7 defeat Friday afternoon in Winnipeg. “The score was not indicative of the […]
It’s not full payback, but it’s a start. The Borderland Thunder earned some redemption against its conqueror from last season by doubling the Dryden Ice Dogs 4-2 in yesterday’s final of the SIJHL’s annual pre-season “Showcase” tournament here. A noisy home crowd at the Memorial Sports Centre energized the Thunder, […]
Recreation appeared to boom in 1932 when the Amateur Athletic Commission was established in May to promote amateur athletic sports in the town. The commission would have complete charge of the new athletic field donated by the town and on which the baseball club was building a diamond. Officially opened […]
“Operation Safe Border,” a 48-hour joint effort between numerous law enforcement agencies from Ontario and Minnesota, laid drug charges and even stopped an illegal immigrant from getting into Canada. Meanwhile, five Americans who had been reported missing on Lake of the Woods late Tuesday were found by an OPP helicopter […]
Thunder head coach Dave Allison probably won’t have to put his special teams units through the paces next week—they had plenty of practice yesterday. Penalty killing and power plays were front and centre as the Thunder opened play in the Superior International Junior Hockey League’s second-annual “Showcase Tournament” with a […]
A coalition of animal welfare and environmental groups called on Natural Resources minister Jerry Ouellette on Friday to remove Fort Frances Mayor Glenn Witherspoon from the nuisance bear panel struck last week. They charge his only interest in sitting on the panel is to lobby for the reinstatement of the […]
Citizenship and Immigration Canada pulled the plug Thursday afternoon on a controversial U.S.-based bass fishing derby that was being held in Ontario waters of Rainy Lake. The Denny’s Super 30 Rainy Lake Invitational, slated to run Thursday through Saturday, ground to a halt just before the first weigh-in was supposed […]
Frank Gadd, of 1231 King’s Highway, Fort Frances, Ont., passed away at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002. Funeral services will be held Monday, Sept. 16, 2002 at 2 p.m. at Green Funeral Home in Fort Frances. Revs. Garth and Diane Clifford will officiate, […]
