The Sunset Country Métis is ready to face a new term with a council that includes both familiar and new faces, as well as a couple vacancies, following Saturday’s election here. Former president Earl Klyne, Sen. Gordon Calder, and youth rep Nathan DeGagne were elected to the executive during polling […]
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It’s been three months since nominations first opened for the municipal election last fall but Morley finally has a full council. Morley’s fourth councillor, Gary Jolicoeur, was sworn in last week, joining Reeve Gary Gamsby and Couns. Bill Romyn, Ken Haw, and George Heyens. “He’s been a councillor before and […]
The Muskies senior boys’ basketball team had a tough time at the Oak Park tournament in Winnipeg last weekend, coming home with a 1-2 record. “We had a tough weekend,” noted co-coach Mike Busch. “Every team ends up with an injury, we just ended up with the ’flu.” Still, Busch […]
Dear sir: There is a group of students at Fort Frances High School I would like to acknowledge: the directing/producing team of Kim Badiuk and Charles Fisher, along with their very talented cast and crew. Since the fall, they have been hard at work rehearsing, forfeiting sleep, learning lines, finding […]
The local K of Cs ‘AA’ PeeWee rep team dropped four of five games at a tournament in Brandon, Man. last week but still managed to come home as the ‘B’ side runners-up. After coming up flat in round-robin play, losing all three of their games, the team picked up […]
The Fort Frances Museum will open its doors for an afternoon of reminiscing and refreshments tomorrow from 1-4 p.m. in conjunction with Ontario Heritage Week. To commemorate the week-long event, the museum also has honoured six recipients for their dedication in the preservation and promotion of local heritage. In the […]
Continuing their mission to make every town resident feel like they’re all part of one big neighborhood, the local “Good Neighbours” council recently supplied La Verendrye hospital with six “comfort kits.” “We contacted the hospital and they were happy to have them,” said council chair Vivian O’Donnell. The kits–intended for […]
After going 3-0 in round-robin play, Pollard’s Scarifiers captured the the Novice division of a girls’ hockey tournament here last weekend with a victory over Kenora Royal Purple in Sunday’s final. After going scoreless over the first two periods, Kali Hamilton and Sahe Lynn Smith (assisted by Haven Labbe) tallied […]
The president of the Rainy River Music Festival Association is very pleased with the number of entries received this year for the Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts. “I am very happy with all the entries we have,” John Jankiewicz said Monday. “We have a number of entries […]
The once controversial “gap” in emergency fire dispatch services in the district finally has been closed. The “gap”–a 10 to 15-minute break that would occur in the dispatch service whenever the dispatcher already was on a call–has been filled by Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc. The “gap” was discovered about […]
The Emo Thunderbolts were firing on all cylinders in recent minor hockey action, winning both their games in PeeWee action. Against the visiting Sharks (Fort Frances), the Thunderbolts scored twice in each of the first and second periods en route to a 5-1 victory. Tyson Romyn led the way with […]
The Emo Rockets racked up 28 goals in a Novice tournament last weekend but fell short by two in the ‘A’ final. Rockets’ coach Shane McDonald was impressed with his players, saying they all worked hard and had no problem hitting the net. In their first game Saturday morning, the […]
