It’s never happened before. But that really doesn’t matter because it’s happening now. The demographics of society are changing radically. As a nation and as a world, we’re growing significantly older. For tens of thousands of years, people expected to live short lives and life expectancy remained steady at less […]
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By Linda Wiens
Quetico Centre
Quetico Centre
The Trends Research Institute in Rhinebeck, N.Y., regularly examines over 300 trend categories. Each year, it picks the 10 biggest changes in social, economic, and political structures. This year’s group is: Several of these have moved up in rank from previous years; others are new. Personally, I would like to […]
The Muskies senior girls’ volleyball team certainly didn’t expect to face St. Ignatius for the NWOSSAA crown–and a trip to the all-Ontario showdown March 8-9 in Ottawa. But the Falcons will be coming to town Friday after they upset the Hillcrest Colts for the Thunder Bay title. “Honestly, I wanted […]
It’s not how you start a season but how you finish it. After stumbling through the regular season with a 1-7 mark, the Muskie junior girls’ volleyball team almost pulled off the upset of the day in the NorWOSSA final against favoured Dryden here last Friday. The black-and-gold took the […]
It’s a rematch they’ve waited for all season. With the memory of a 70-38 pasting at the hands of the Hammarskjold Vikings earlier this season, the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team would love nothing better than to turn the tables on their Thunder Bay rivals in the best-of-three NWOSSAA showdown […]
The Muskies expect Dryden to use a physical style of game when the two teams open the best-of-three NorWOSSA final here Friday night. But it remains to be seen whether the Eagles will have any more success than the Kenora Broncos did against the black-and-gold in the semi-finals over the […]
Playing together at the high school level for the last time, the Rainy River Owl rink–skipped by Angela Lee–would have liked to have finished on a winning note. But their season screeched to a halt yesterday afternoon at the NWOSSAA playdowns in Marathon with a 7-6 loss to Nipigon-Red Rock, […]
The local B•Macs ‘AA’ Bantam hockey team lost 8-2 to Shattuck-St. Mary’s (Minneapolis) in the semi-finals of a tournament in Brandon on Sunday. Shattuck, a private school coached by former NHL’er J.P. Parise, jumped out to a 4-0 lead before Clayton Windigo and Jordan Wilson got the B•Macs back in […]
The senior girls’ bowling team, representing Plaza Lanes at the 4-Steps to Stardom zone competition in Dryden last weekend, won the gold medal and now will represent Sunset Country at the provincials March 18-19 in Thunder Bay. They finished with a 2,804 pin total–just 34 ahead of Timber Lanes (Dryden). […]
Hillary Morgan received the top mark at the women’s provincial level in the qualifier last weekend at the Confederation College “Bubble” with an overall score of 53.1 for the total of her optional and compulsory routines. She received the 2000 gold medal award competing against seven other prov. 2 athletes […]
The Aquanauts had an excellent meet at the regionals in Thunder Bay last weekend, breaking three club records and finishing with several medals en route to a third-place finish overall. “It was probably our best finish at a meet in a long time,” head coach Debbie Murray said, admitting she […]
Westfort NAPA skated away with an impressive 5-1 win over Kenora Red Esso to capture the Emo Legion ‘A’ event at an Atom tournament last weekend in Emo. Leading 2-1 after two, Westfort iced the victory with three unanswered goals in the third. Joseph Zewiec and Jeremy Puhalski each scored […]
