With heavy hearts we announce the passing of Stanley Wepruk on Sunday, April 3, 2022, in Fort Frances, at the age of 90. He was born on November 9, 1931, in Sundown, Manitoba, to Peter and Mary Wepruk. He was the youngest of a very large family and always considered […]
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The Fort Frances Family Centre is in need of cereal. Please bring any donations to the Centre, located in the old CN Station, between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. A work session for the Stratton Sales Barn will be held Saturday at 9 a.m. If you can help, just show […]
The Rainy River District 4-H recently held its awards night, to honour the best and brightest of tomorrow’s farm leaders. Below are this year’s winners. Leader Certificates (awarded in 5 year increments) Kim Desserre – 15 year Jason Teeple – 20 year New Cloverbud Members (Awarded T-shirt from RR 4-H […]
The final NorWossa Curling event took place in Kenora on March 30, and Muskies broaught home plenty of hardware. The team of Corbin Riches, Zander Hutton, Jackson Marchand and Josh Maki won Gold Medals in the Boys Division. Rowan Donalson, Cameron O’Brian, Jacob Crabbe and George Taylor placed third. In […]
By Allan Bradbury
Staff Writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com
Staff Writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com
The Fort Frances Lakers finished with a league-worst record this season finishing with just five wins, 35 losses and one overtime loss and were swept by the Dryden GM Ice Dogs in three games in the playoffs, scoring only one goal. Interim Head Coach Ron MacKinnon says a big part […]
It was nice to get home last week to catch up and do a little bit of ice fishing but it was back on the road for me this past weekend as I returned to Tennessee for a Bassmaster Elite Series tournament on Lake Chickamauga this week. The timing was […]
I miss Jim Coleman. I miss driving him home from football games, 20 minutes when I had him, his history and his personality to myself. I miss that for years he good-naturedly chided my girlfriend Nancy, now my wife, for taking years off his life the wintry night she drove […]
When planning a landscape or garden design you should consider including a few shrubs. There are hundreds of shrub species, varieties and forms available for this growing zone. Shrubs are available in many shapes, sizes and characteristics as well as an array of leaf colours. This column is intended to […]
Most of us all lead very busy lives, or at least we claim to. We also freeze meat for future dinners because we either bought too much, it was on sale and so we stocked up, or we just plainly don’t want to grocery shop any more often than we […]
Local residents were eager to embrace a favourite tradition last weekend, when Guthrie United Church hosted the Spring Fling Tea and Bake Sale. The fundraising and social event saw a bake sale, penny table, draws, desserts, tea and conversation for young and old. The event had been cancelled the past […]
