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 […]
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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 […]
Dear editor: I feel it is important to respond to recent concerns about the “Lands for Life” planning process and the mining industry. There are many strong feelings about the “Lands for Life” discussions and the comprehensive planning process for our Crown lands. This is not surprising. It is a […]
Dear sir: Hopefully, you will find space for these lines, written by a relic from the past. If my English seems somewhat stilted, it is because I have now been living in Norway for more than 50 long years. In spite of the great time lapse, I still cherish fond […]
The proposal hasn’t gotten the official nod yet but people are starting to be selected to sit on the District Social Services Administrative Board. Fort Frances Mayor Glenn Witherspoon, who is president of the Rainy River District Municipal Association, said municipalities across the district were being asked to choose someone […]
