It wasn’t a big fish as sturgeon go but it was large enough for Brian Bakken to win capture the annual North American Sturgeon Championship last Saturday in Birchdale, Mn. Bakken, a resident of Roseau, Mn., reeled in a 50.25-inch sturgeon from Rainy River with only 20 minutes left in […]
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The Muskie boys’ hockey team hasn’t been officially selected yet, and assistant coach Ken Christiansen noted nobody’s spot on the roster is secure. “Tryouts aren’t over. We just hold tryouts now so we can cut the team down to workable numbers,” he explained. “We do it in the summer because […]
The “underdogs” hung tough most of the way but they eventually fell 10-4 to Team #1 in the annual Rainy River District Fastball League’s all-star game last Thursday in Barwick. “They were tied for most of the game,” noted organizer George Oltsher, who also managed Team #1. “In the bottom […]
Allison Hyatt recently discovered the Ontario Summer Games aren’t about winning the gold, they’re about what you learn along the way. Hyatt, 15, of Mine Centre was a member of the regional girls’ volleyball team that competed at the Games held Aug. 11-13 in Durham Region, where they finished fifth […]
Local Ministry of Natural Resources biologist Darryl McLeod won’t know all the figures until as late as January but early indicators show the Rainy Lake bass fishery is as healthy as it’s ever been. After sampling 501 fish caught during last month’s Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, the total, average, […]
The AA Developmental hockey camp had a successful year with some growing pains but it will run again next summer–possibly with a few changes. “It was a real big success,” co-owner and instructor Mike Allison noted Tuesday. “There were some growing pains we had to work out the first week […]
To the editor: Well, I’ve been patiently waiting for hemo-dialysis to start in Fort Frances. What’s the problem? I was told by a very prominent person from Fort Frances that it would be up and going by this fall. This person was at the “Care Close to Home” stretcher push […]
Council gave the green light to a new customs facility here but only after the corporation turned on the power. For a while there, it looked like clear minds and logic would win the day but alas, the one-horse town mentality raised its ugly head again. The majority of the […]
Hi, I just found your homepage and I think your FFHS reunion coverage is great. I couldn’t make it back but it sounds like everyone had a great time Cheers, Jim Falconer (’65) Edmonton, Alta.
To the editor: As a Sr. Matric grad of F.F.H.S. in 1948, it was great to be able to be part of the recent Millennium Reunion. What a tremendous effort by the local community–I’m proud of my hometown! However, I recently received a copy of the July 12 edition of […]
Dear editor: Some of Bob Nault’s comments in his attempt to discredit the flat tax proposal of the Canadian Alliance, in his column on Aug. 2, are quite misleading. This proposal has a 17 percent tax rate, an increase in the basic personal and spousal exemptions to $10,000, and a […]
This letter is in response to the article that appeared recently in the Kenora Enterprise. As this article touches a sore spot for many of us, I, for one, would like to know what efforts are being made to put a stop to the so-called underground cabin rentals. Knowing this […]
