The Emo Belles ringette team got their season off to a perfect start by capturing the gold medal at the recent Rainy River Tween/Belle tournament. In their opening match, the Belles outskated host Rainy River 13-4. Tara Lloyd led the way with five goals while Stacey Angus had a hat […]
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Steven Krag of Fort Frances swept Cindy Arpin 3-0 in the final of the junior novice event at the Northwestern Squash Open in Thunder Bay last Sunday. Krag advanced to the final after going 2-0 in round-robin play (sweeping each best-of-three match in two straight games). Playing in his first […]
After opening with a pair of wins at the junior men’s Northwestern playdowns in Sioux Lookout last week, Chris Matheson’s Fort Frances rink looked to be in good shape. But that’s when the road to the provincials took a big detour. Matheson’s crew proceeded to lose their last four games–three […]
The Emo Atom Selects, led by Betty Meyers’ two goals, upended MEC (Fort Frances) 5-4 in recent minor hockey action. Tyson Romyn, Ryan Mutz, and Richy Wieringa also scored for the Selects while Andrew Lundy (two), Josh Sigurson, and Pierre Jourdain replied for the visitors. Meanwhile, Nathan DeBungee had four […]
The Muskies already have shown they are a formidable squad on home ice, indicative of their three-straight blowout wins against NorWOSSA opponents within the confines of Memorial Arena. Now after Monday night’s 12-3 romp over the Kenora Broncos up there, the black-and-gold have served notice they can be dominating on […]
While their past accomplishments are quite impressive, Raymond Roy’s rink knows full well that you can throw all that out the window as they prepare for the provincial mixed curling playdowns here this weekend. The team’s second, Wayne Beacham, was runner-up at the national mixed playdowns in 1988 while Roy […]
Aquanauts Karli McKinnon, 10, and Boyd Badiuk, nine, combined for three silver medals and a bronze in their age group at the 18th-annual Prairie Winter Invitational meet in Winnipeg last weekend. McKinnon raced to second-place finishes in the 200m free and 50m free events while also taking third in the […]
While playing at the provincial level is nothing new for Angela Lee, what has changed for the new Northwestern Ontario junior ladies’ champ is her responsibility on the ice. Having played at the past two junior provincial playdowns for the Jackie Bonot rink, Lee got the chance to skip her […]
Fort Frances CAO Bill Naturkach was still waiting for his phone to ring Tuesday afternoon, eager to hear how the provincial government was proceeding, if at all, on Bill 79–what he called the “bill of chaos” last week. Also known as the Fairness for Property Taxpayers Act, Naturkach said Bill […]
Fort Frances certainly isn’t the only place where an Abitibi-Consolidated mill is taking downtime over the Christmas holidays, noted Susan Rogers, vice-president of corporate communications in Montreal. Local workers learned late last week that the mill here will shut down Wednesday, Dec. 23 at the end of the night shift […]
Fort Frances needs to find a little more than $1.4 million in its overall budget to avoid a property tax hike in 1999. But the $64,000 question is where? The committee of the whole of council has now met with the town’s four department managers and its economic development advisor […]
As adults and parents, we often pay lip service to the idea that our children–the upcoming generation–are our most precious resource. Yet frequently, what transpires in the hours between entry on and exit from the old yellow school bus are (depending on how verbal our children are) a sort of […]
