Stuart Edward McLeod was born in Emo, Ont., on March 21, 1928. He grew up on the family farm during the Great Depression and was educated by the quiet common sense of his late father, Addison, mother, Muriel, and the nearby country schools that couldn’t contain his wanderlust. Stuart passed […]
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Mary Rose (Plichta) Larson, 69, passed away Wednesday, March 29, 2000. She was born July 24, 1930 in Sundown, Man. to the late Joseph and Annie Plichta.
By Linda Wiens
Quetico Centre
Quetico Centre
The Thunder Bay Regional Hospital is required to have a plan for providing French language service. It does, and the board recently expressed its support. But is that what we need to serve our future population best? In Canada, according to the 1996 census, 59.2 percent of the population cited […]
With April just around the corner, safety educators believe anyone can be an April Fool at any giving time. You are an April Fool if: Motor vehicle accidents are still the number-one cause of accidental deaths in Canada. But many people still do not heed the wise advice police officers […]
There’s nothing like a Raggedy Ann or Andy doll to bring a smile to my face. And just for today, I have three of them visiting my office. A big Raggedy Ann–more than two feet tall–smiles from her perch by my copy machine. And a pair, sitting close and snuggling […]
The other day I sat down at the computer with every intention of writing another “Recollections” column. Oddly, an “Out of Memory” error message flashed before my eyes. I’m not sure whether I saw it on the computer or in my head but it certainly was an omen. For some […]
Some 43 badminton players participated in the Fort Frances Badminton Club Junior Open tournament at the Fort Frances High School on March 18. The athletes ranged from nine to 18 years old. A considerable number of local players was complemented with entries from Kenora, Thunder Bay, and Rainy River. Play […]
Playing a style that got him to the provincial playdowns earlier this year, Raymond Roy used his defensive strategy to perfection Sunday in beating Rob Sinclair Jr. 6-1 in the ‘A’-event final of the annual men’s bonspiel here. Roy never trailed in the game, opening up with a deuce in […]
Muskie head coach Glen Edwards had said before the OFSAA tournament that it didn’t matter how good you were if the bounces didn’t go your way. And it was a bad bounce that jumped up and bit the Muskies in their 3-2 overtime loss to the Upper Canada Blues (Toronto) […]
Chants of “Muskies, Muskies, Muskies” or “Go Muskies Go” shook the walls of the Countryside Arena in Sudbury before the start of the black-and-gold’s quarter-final showdown with the Upper Canada College Blues of Toronto. The cheering grew even louder by the roughly 100 or so Muskie faithful on hand as […]
In past years, Scott Gobeil’s Northern Ontario rink usually came up with the key shot at pivotal times to pull out victories at the national police curling playdowns. But those game-winning shots were nowhere to be found this time around in Halifax. The result was a 6-5 record and an […]
The local Sunset Country Ford Mustangs “AA” Atom hockey team were blanked 4-0 in their final round-robin game by the Volunteer Pool Bearcats (Thunder Bay) at the 28th-annual Elks tournament there. The loss ousted the Mustangs from further contention. The Bearcats grabbed a 3-0 lead after the first period, then […]
