Speaking French was the name of the game at the “Concours d’art oratoire ‘99” last Tuesday at the Emo Inn. In the French Immersion category, which featured three students from St. Francis School, Sarah Busch placed first, followed by Jamie Beadow in second and Jennilee Korzinski third. Meanwhile, Christine Schulzki […]
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Good weather, tons of people, and a bit of a profit combined to make the annual Nestor Falls Lions Club’s Winter Carnival a “great success” last weekend. Nadine Johnson, one of the organizers, said they couldn’t have asked for a better weekend to stage the carnival, with a slight wind […]
With the deadline for input on proposed changes to water level management on Namakan and Rainy Lakes coming up Friday, those downstream of the dam at Fort Frances are wondering what all this will mean for the river. And it’s a question Jennifer Mercer hasn’t been able to get much […]
NorFab Building Components Ltd. of here received a regional business achievement award at the Ontario Global Traders Awards ceremony for Northern Ontario in Sudbury last Wednesday. “We were pleasantly surprised,” said sales manager Brian Hagarty, adding Dave Bourgeault of the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines office here nominated the […]
The ball is now in the court of Abitibi-Consolidated and Boise Cascade, CAO Bill Naturkach said, after meeting with town administration about what it would take to build a new “off-bridge” Canada Customs facility here. Naturkach gave a verbal report to the committee of the whole of council Monday, along […]
First Nations students from around the district will be at the Couchiching Bingo Palace later this month to test their know-how in aboriginal matters in the first-annual “Knowledge Bowl.” Slated March 25 from 9:30 a.m. to about 2 p.m., aboriginal, Métis, and Inuit youth in grades five to eight will […]
Gwen Bell, 87, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away peacefully at La Verendrye Hospital on Tuesday, March 9, 1999. She was born Gwen Langstaff on Sept. 20, 1911 at Emo, Ont. She is survived by a daughter, Judy and husband, Bob Burgstahler, of London, Ont.; daughter-in-law, Muriel Bell; grandson, Robert […]
Sadly and unexpectedly on March 7, 1999, we saw the passing of our son, brother, grandson, nephew, cousin, and friend, Gavin Thomas Paul Bruyere. Gavin was born in Kenora, Ont. on Jan. 21, 1981. He resided in Fort Frances, Ont. since he was a toddling three-year-old and moved to Thunder […]
There is no greater love than a love for your child. It is with great sadness that the family has received word of the passing of Clint Strandhagen, 17, of Boca Raton, Fl. He fought a great fight for life and is now passed on to be with our Lord. […]
The Muskie senior boys’ basketball team had been on fire all season, playing a brand of wide-open, exciting basketball that produced more than its fair share of wins. But when the black-and-gold needed a win the most, in the NorWOSSA final last Friday against the Kenora Broncos up there, the […]
The Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team had the Kenora Broncos on the ropes in the NorWOSSA final there last Friday but they couldn’t deliver the knockout blow. After winning the first two games of the best-of-five match 15-8 and 15-13, passing well, setting near perfection, and hitting the ball with […]
John Lundon beat out 24 other riders to take the checkered flag in the 500 cc division of a snowcross race in Grand Rapids, Mn. last weekend. Lundon, 19, of here raced to four first-place finishes, a third, and a fifth on Saturday to qualify for Sunday’s semi-final, where he […]
