Considering the talent at the men’s bonspiel here each year, Lorne Jackson would be the first to admit it how tough it is to repeat as champion. But that’s exactly what Jackson and his rink of brother, Derek, and new front end Randy Genyk and Lionel Conan (both from Winnipeg), […]
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The road to the all-Ontarios took a little bump along the way but the Rainy River Owls, skipped by Angela Lee, advanced to the provincial girls’ curling showdown April 14-17 in Toronto. Competing at the NWOSSAA playdowns here in Fort Frances, the Owls had little trouble beating Marathon 10-2 in […]
The Fort Frances Gymnastics Academy was fortunate to have a talented young German gymnast by the name of Weronicka Smigielska grace its club this season. And the 18-year-old native of Dusseldorf (she actually was born in Poland) has become quite a fixture here in Fort Frances while she is completing […]
The Fort Frances “AA” Tom Thumb team placed fourth out of 20 teams at a tournament in Thunder Bay last weekend. After finishing with a 3-0-1 record in their pool, the Fort dropped both their games in the playoff round–losing 3-1 to top-ranked West End Bruins (Thunder Bay) and then […]
Dave Kinsella helped the Muskies to a silver medal at the all-Ontarios in London in 1984 as a defenceman with the team. This year, he was behind the bench of the St. Thomas Aquinas Cardinals–the team that knocked the black-and-gold out of further contention at the provincial showdown in Dryden. […]
In just his third season as a Kitty Cat racer, and his first full one, Curtis Boivin certainly burned up the tracks on the Minnesota KC Pro racing circuit. Boivin, six, of Fort Frances, is part of the Lil’ Twister racing team that includes his father, Alan, and mother, Carol. […]
As the Muskies cleaned out their lockers at Memorial Arena on Monday afternoon, they did so knowing it was their third-period collapses that cost them a playoff berth–and possibly a shot at a medal–at the all-Ontarios in Dryden last week. Outscored 7-3 in the final frame in their four pool […]
Dear sir: This short note is to praise one of your paper people–Jayson McFarlane! What a terrific person! Just a short bit ago, I was quite sick and laid up at home. Jayson would hand-deliver my newspapers to me just to check how I was doing! A very thoughtful kid! […]
Dear sir: On the weekend of March 19-21, the Fort Frances Atom rep team attended a tournament in Portage La Prairie, Man. This tournament attracted 24 teams, four of which stayed at the same hotel and got along with each other very well, sharing all the amenities without an argument. […]
The sound of the buzzer meant it was time to get down to business for almost 130 First Nations students from across the district at the first-annual “Quest For Knowledge” last Thursday at Couchiching. Organized into 20 teams of six (five plus an alternate), the students engaged in a battle […]
AIDS. Pregnancy. Violence. Alcoholism. These are the dangers many youths face in this day and age. Which raises the question what can they do about it all? This–and much more–was tackled at the first-ever Northwestern Ontario Youth Summit hosted by the United Native Friendship Centre Youth Council here last weekend. […]
Dear editor, I am writing to express my disappointment with the lack of coverage received from our local media with respect to the recent “Walk My Red Road II” HIV/AIDS conference. I am an employee of the United Native Friendship Centre and am one of the five people who organized […]
