Joey Payeur With their energy and spirit, the youngest members of the Boundary Waters Dragon Boat Club will be firing on all cylinders before too long. Club member Sydney Chalifoux has taken the initiative–and the reins–in creating the group’s first program geared exclusively towards youths this season. “I got the […]
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Staff The Northern Storm raged through its opposition before being silenced by a pack of Terriers. Fort Frances residents Piper Miller, Kiera Fairnington, and Eva Gerstner helped the Storm regional team reach the final in the 10U Tier 1 division of the USA International Hockey Cup ‘AAA’ Tournament in Blaine, […]
Joey Payeur At the end of it all, Marie-Mai Langevin was too good for her own good. The 12-year-old Fort Frances resident returned from the 80th running of the FirstEnergy All-American Soap Box Derby world championships in Akron, Ohio on July 16-22 with a pair of trophies in the Super […]
Staff Two more new faces will be looking to win over local hockey hearts this coming season, but at least they’ll be familiar to each other. The Fort Frances Lakers announced last Wednesday the signing of forward Mitch Kocsis, a 20-year-old out of Martensville, Sask., who played the past two […]
of Emily Drouin Heron Landing golf instructor Scott Basaraba shared some tips on iron shots with Monica Empey during Project Sunset’s second-annual PALS golf event there last Thursday. Running from 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., the day also featured a barbecued lunch for all the participants. The aim was to give the […]
Staff Everybody’s so excited for the Borderland Soccer League playoffs, they decided to skip the rest of the regular season. First-place Centra Pipelines and third-place Manitou Forest Products played what turned out to be the men’s division regular-season finale Monday, with Manitou earning a 3-0 decision. Connor Nelson, Colton Spicer, […]
Staff It’s been a rookie season to remember for Trevor Croswell. The Emo resident placed third in the MX3 Beginner division behind the Ignace duo of Jonathon Szyszka and Cody Colby at the second-last tour stop of the year for the Northern Ontario Superior Dirt Riders motocross circuit Saturday in […]
From the MNRF The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is seeking the public’s help in identifying the individual(s) responsible for abandoning an ice hut on Lake of the Woods near Kenora. Back in the spring, conservation officers received complaints of an ice hut floating in open water on the […]
Joey Payeur The impact of the sporting triumph of a group of fresh-faced Fort Frances curlers shook the foundations of youth curling in a whole other province. Back in 1958, the curling quartet of skip Peter McLeod, third Leonard McQuarrie, second Art Berglund, and lead Bob Gratton turned amateur athletics […]
The Canadian Press WINNIPEG–Trauma is being cited as the likely reason for the death of a young polar bear at Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park Zoo last month. But what caused that trauma remains a mystery. The nearly three-year-old bear, named “Eli,” died July 15 after internal swelling of the tissue in […]
Duane Hicks A crew from Precision Paving began installing paving stones on the 200 block of Scott Street yesterday, starting at the southwest portion (from the CIBC up to the Rainy Lake Square site). The paving stone work will be done in four quarters, which should take a couple of […]
The Canadian Press VANCOUVER–Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he “regrets” comments he made about Sen. Patrick Brazeau in a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine. Indigenous advocates denounced Trudeau’s comments in the U.S. magazine’s August issue where he referred to Brazeau as “the scrappy tough-guy senator from an Indigenous community.” […]
