Press Release The “Forest of Reading” is Canada’s largest recreational reading program! This initiative of the Ontario Library Association offers eight reading programs to encourage a love of reading in people of all ages. The “Forest” also helps celebrate Canadian books, publishers, authors, and illustrators. More than 250,000 readers participate […]
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Press Release Weddings are joyous occasions but planning one is not always simple. Among the endless to-do lists and countless decisions to be made, you also need to make sure your paperwork is in order and that the person you’ve asked to perform your marriage ceremony is authorized to perform […]
Nicholas Donaldson The Seven Generations Education Institute had its welding simulator available for guests to try at the “Family Well-being Night” held at Fort Frances High School last Wednesday. The evening, a collaboration between Fort High, Robert Moore School, and J.W. Walker School, offered activities, information, snacks, and prizes for […]
Joey Payeur The young and the limitless. It’s an appropriate description of the Muskie track-and-field team after it tasted action for the first time last Thursday at the Bronco Booster Track & Field Invite varsity meet at Falls High School. More than three-quarters of the squad this season are Grade […]
Submitted Sekina Scheibler got a hands-on lesson as he helped Wayne Forsey remove pins in a mock total knee replacement operation.
Press Release Fort Frances High School students in Robert Guertin’s Grade 11 and 12 Manufacturing classes, and Christine Jean’s Kinesiology class, recently learned about high-tech innovations while taking part in a knee replacement demonstration. “The purpose of the session is to connect our students to the work world, and not […]
Staff Bowlers representing Sunset Country earned medals at the 2017 Open provincial championships held April 12-15 in Dryden. Jeff Watts of Fort Frances earned the fifth and final berth in the men’s singles competition after averaging 268.3 over the 10-game preliminary roll-offs held Wednesday afternoon. Watts then won his first […]
Joey Payeur The Muskies and Rainy River Owls each have multiple representatives at the NWOSSAA badminton championships today in Wawa after finishing in the top two at the NorWOSSA finals last Wednesday in Kenora. And if any of them can repeat that placement today, it’s off to the OFSAA on […]
From the MNRF Eight men from Northwestern Ontario have been fined a total of $9,200 for moose-hunting offences. Dennis Chevalier, of Kenora, pleaded guilty and was fined $5,000 for hunting moose without a licence. Joe Chevalier, Lee Blyth, Jason Canfield, Brad Greer, Dean Laewetz, and Lorne Redden, all of Kenora, […]
Staff They were two of the three best teams all season and now they will settle the issue of who is really the best one-on-one. Defending league champion How I Set Your Mother, the top squad during the regular season this year, will lock horns with third-ranked Kiss My Pass […]
The Canadian Press GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta.–Horses that were struggling after falling through thin ice in northwestern Alberta were saved by rescuers who cut paths to the shore with chainsaws. Trevor Grant, the County of Grande Prairie’s fire chief, said 10 horses fell through a frozen dugout on a rural property […]
The Canadian Press CALGARY–A Calgary wildlife centre has cured a porcupine with a snoring problem. The Kyne family has shared their backyard with the rodent they named “Billy Jo” for the past several years. They recorded video of him sleeping and when staff at the Calgary Wildlife Rehabilitation Society watched […]
