Ovide Larocque, 58, of 818 Wright Ave., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Friday, Jan. 15, 1999 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances. Ovide was born May 31, 1940 in Pinewood, Ont. to the late “Tony” and “Sis” Larocque. He was raised in Pinewood until he moved with his […]
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It’s been a long time since I heard the fairy tale; and at the moment, I can’t find it in my library. But that really doesn’t matter because like so many things from childhood, the details may fade but the core facts are forever. It seems a struggling shoemaker and […]
The Muskie senior boys’ basketball team moved into a first-place tie with the Kenora Broncos at 3-1 after an impressive 62-51 win up there yesterday afternoon.
The Emo Leafs were among the 22 teams that participated in the third-annual GM Dryden Atom ‘A’ hockey tournament this past weekend. Other squads there included the MEC Bulldogs (Fort Frances), as well as ones from Atikokan, Ignace, Sioux Lookout, Red Lake, Kenora, Keewatin, and host Dryden. The Leafs reached […]
When Tim Nordin’s rink struggled at the first qualifier for the “Northwestern” men’s curling playdowns here in late November, they decided to make a change. Nordin switched to third while Raymond Roy took over throwing skip’s rocks, and the move seems to have paid off–at least for now. Teamed up […]
Although the Sunset Country team didn’t bowl over their competition at last weekend’s “Youth Challenge” at Plaza Lanes here, local bowlers Allison AmOrde and John Smith finished near the top of their respective divisions.
In a sport where one or two breaks can change the outcome of a game, Kathie Jackson’s Fort Frances rink definitely benefited from a few “lucky” ones at the Northwestern Ontario ladies’ curling playdowns in Dryden last week. And they transformed that good fortune into a tie for top spot […]
The Muskie junior girls’ volleyball team overcame a 12-3 deficit in the second game to sweep the St. Pat’s Saints 15-3, 15-12 in the final of an 11-team tournament in Dryden last weekend. After opening with a 2-1 loss to the Thomas Aquinas Saints (Kenora), the Muskies never lost another […]
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 […]
