Lydia Cook Terry, 93, of Rainycrest Home for the Aged, 550 Osborne St., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances on Saturday, May 2, 1998. Lydia was born March 21, 1905 in Angus, Ont. to the late William and Sarah Carter. On Feb. 23, […]
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Mr. Antony Joseph Jaculak, 45, a resident of West Donald St., Thunder Bay Ont., passed away at McKellar General Hospital there Friday, May 1, 1998. He was born April 23, 1953 in Rainy River, Ont., the youngest child of Fred and Antonina Jaculak. Tony attended elementary and high school in […]
Henry “Hank” Van Drunen, 78, of Devlin, Ont., passed away Friday, May 1, 1998 at the Emo Hospital in Emo, Ont. He was born Jan. 20, 1920 in Cook County, Ill. to the late Anton and Anne Van Drunen. In 1924, he moved with his family to Emo. During World […]
Edward Arthur “Eddie” Smith, 60, of Northwest Bay First Nation, Ont., passed away at his residence Thursday, April 30, 1998. He was born May 17, 1937 in Northwest Bay First Nation to the late Margaret and John Smith. Eddie was raised at Northwest Bay, and worked as a logger in […]
The Muskie football team and its Touchdown booster club plan to make renovations to Westfort field beginning in September. The plans, though still in the infant stage, include installing a new water irrigation system and building a storage facility for the players’ equipment. Construction of a new press box and […]
The town should know in another week if a double-rink ice surface can be built here for $4.9 million. LM Architects of Winnipeg informed the town last Thursday that they would be meeting soon with Ernst Hansch Construction, the company which built the Dakota Complex in Winnipeg. That facility, featuring […]
For the second year in a row, the Fort High athletic budget will not suffer any cuts to its program. And that’s good news to FFHS athletic director Bob Grynol, who said the program is now in a stable situation heading into the 1998-99 school year. “We don’t anticipate a […]
Kitchen Creek will host its second-annual “Demo Day” this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., featuring sales reps from the top manufacturers in the game, including Taylor Made, Calloway, and Titliest. Workum said 300 golfers took in last year’s one-day event but expected that number to increase to as […]
Although the Aquanauts won’t know exactly where they finished at the Division III team championships in Etobicoke last week for a while yet, they do know they performed phenomenally well on an individual basis. In fact, the 23 Aquanauts who went clocked 72 out of a possible 115 best times […]
Due to the vast distance teams in NorWOSSA must travel for their games, students on the various Muskie squads miss a significant amount of class time during the year. Reducing the time high school athletes spend out of the classroom was one of the main topics up for discussion at […]
A pair of Muskie cheerleaders put an emphatic end to another season earlier this month, performing on a cruise ship that took them to the Cayman Islands. While the Caribbean is a far cry from their usual surroundings inside the confines of gymnasiums in Northwestern Ontario and Manitoba, Melissa Hagen […]
Area tourists camp owners were left pondering how changes coming down from government would effect how they run their businesses in the future. At last Thursday’s meeting of the North Western Ontario Tourism Association (NWOTA) in Nestor Falls, those on hand wrestled with a multitude of changes on everything from […]
