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 […]
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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 […]
It was oh so close. Trailing 38-35 in the NorWOSSA semi-final against the Dryden Eagles last Friday in Kenora, the Muskies elected to put the ball in the hands of their hottest shooter, Facial Cheblaoui, to try a game-tying three-pointer. And why not? He had made a long-range shot with […]
Although a provincial women’s curling championship has eluded Kathie Jackson so far in her competitive curling career, she finally captured a title that also had slipped through her grasp until now. The annual Fort Frances ladies’ bonspiel. Jackson breezed through the competition in the 46th-annual affair last week, capping it […]
It wasn’t pretty. In fact, it was ugly at times. But who says you have to play pretty to win, and the Muskies played well enough in spurts to sweep the Red Lake Rams 2-0 in their best-of-three NorWOSSA semi-final series last weekend. They now move on to the best-of-three […]
