Josh Sigurdson scored the game-winner just 30 seconds into overtime to lift the MEC Bulldogs to a 1-0 win over Dryden Esso in the ‘B’ final of an Atom ‘A’ tournament up there last weekend. Andrew Lundy drew the assist. MEC reached the final with a 4-3 shootout win over […]

It wasn’t the weekend the Emo Bunnies ringette squad was hoping for, recording only one win against three losses against some tough opposition. Emo only could muster two goals from the stick of B. Galusha in the first half as they fell 11-2 to Steinbach. S. Piche led the onslaught […]

The Muskie senior boys’ basketball team dropped a tight 90-84 decision to the host Churchill Bulldogs in the championship game of a six-team tournament in Winnipeg last weekend. The Muskies came out flying in the final–outscoring the Bulldogs 12-2 to open the game–but then watched as Churchill fought back with […]

The fourth-annual “Quest for the Best” slated Feb. 5 won’t be short on entertainment again this year, with contestants filling all 20 spots by last Friday’s deadline. “As of 4:30 p.m. Friday, we found our 20 entries,” noted Chamber of Commerce co-ordinator Dawn Booth. “We have a lot of new […]

To the editor: The last time I checked, Canada was still a democracy. Fort Frances, however, is starting to feel a little like the former Soviet Union. In my opinion, the “Office of the Mayor” has no right to grant exclusive rights to any business or person to provide a […]

Dear sir: The Chapple Heritage Committee in Barwick wishes to invite former residents to our 100th anniversary as a municipality. Chapple Centennial Weekend will be held from Friday evening, July 30, 1999 to Monday morning, Aug. 2, 1999. Full information packages, including a tentative itinerary, accommodation listings, and registration forms, […]

Dear sir: I mentioned to a friend that I attended the Friday, Jan. 8 public meeting on the “Y2K” problem at the Salvation Army Citadel. My friend asked me if I had been converted? The session was not about religion but an information session on “Y2K” (which, by the way, […]

Dear editor: Here we go again! Let’s have the Town of Fort Frances run a feasibility study now on hockey schools! What do they have to do with it anyway? We, as parents, decide if, where, and when our children go to hockey school. We’ll be missing a golden opportunity […]

Dear sir: I am writing in response to a request from a resident of Marble, Mn. who is searching for information concerning a family connection in the Rainy River District. The person concerned is Art (Arthur?) Pelkey. He may have lived on Rainy Lake, and at some point returned to […]

Confederation College campus manager Don Lovisa is back home from a five-week mission to the Ukraine to forward business education in that economically struggling country. The college has had an office in the Ukraine for three years, operating in a partnership between the Canadian and Ukrainian governments called Small Business […]

The Safe Communities Incentive Program (SCIP) is looking for small businesses to join in its continuing efforts to make the workplace safe for the year ahead. Last year, 92 district businesses participated in SCIP, part of the Workplace Safety Insurance Board’s prevention initiative to reduce workplace injuries. “The 1998 SCIP […]

Fort Frances should hope for the best but prepare for the worst was the message the Year 2000 Action Group brought to Monday night’s regular council meeting. Group spokesman Eric Alcock, an envoy with the Salvation Army here, urged councillors to take “strong leadership” in raising community awareness of the […]