Bill and Peggy Johnson, Richard Byrnes, George Glowasky and Tanis Williamson of Fort Frances were among the Rainy River District Mutual Aid Association cash calendar draw for the week of Sept. 22-28. Also winning $30 for that week were Rob Armstrong (Pinewood), Ted Menzie (Thunder Bay), and Roger Tremblay (Schreiber). […]
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Jamie Mountain Volleyball at the junior level is constantly a game of learning and adapting and the Muskie boys’ squad is learning what it is going to take to be successful this season. The Muskies had a busy week last week, splitting a pair of games against the Sioux Lookout […]
Jamie Mountain Records are meant to be broken and a few of them fell in the Muskie football team’s rout of the Churchill Bulldogs here on Friday afternoon. Muskie quarterback Brady Meeks was outstanding, setting new single game Currie Division (‘A’) records in both passing yards and touchdowns thrown in […]
Jamie Mountain A great start to the NorWOSSA season has the Muskie junior girls’ basketball team soaring high. The Muskies won both of their games last week as they improved to a league best 3-0. Fort High rolled to a 53-33 romp over the Sioux Lookout Warriors in their home-opener […]
Ken Kellar Marcy Loveday, left, and D.J. McKay worked together on a pair of paintings during Community Living Fort Frances and District’s open air art studio held in the Shaw room at the Fort Frances Public Library yesterday. This week’s project was wrapped yarn resist birch tree painting, where the […]
Ken Kellar United Native Friendship Centre Aboriginal healing and wellness worker Deb Emes read from the book, “The Orange Shirt Story,” by Phyllis Webstad during the UNFC’s Orange Shirt Day ceremony yesterday. Webstad’s book is a recounting of her time in a residential school in British Columbia and the origins […]
The Canadian Press NANAIMO, B.C.–British Columbia conservation officers say two piranhas found in a Vancouver Island lake were likely unwanted pets. One red-bellied piranha was reeled in by an angler at Westwood Lake in Nanaimo last week. Another was caught in the same lake during the summer. The provincial Conservation […]
The Canadian PressTeresa Wright GATINEAU, Que.–Their anonymous deaths have been honoured and their names–hundreds and hundreds of them–are finally known. The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation revealed yesterday the names of 2,800 children who died in residential schools during a sombre ceremony in Gatineau, Que. A 50-metre long, blood-red […]
The Canadian Press YORKTON, Sask.–A Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League player who was serving a suspension for rough play on a goaltender won’t be playing for the rest of the season after appearing in a profanity-laced video. The Yorkton Terriers released forward Greg Mulhall on Sunday and the league banned him […]
The Associated PressCandice Choi NEW YORK–Eating red meat is linked to cancer and heart disease, but are the risks big enough to give up burgers and steak? A team of international researchers says probably not, contradicting established advice. In a series of papers published yesterday, the researchers say the increased […]
The Canadian Press MARKHAM, Ont.–Police north of Toronto have charged one of their own with impaired driving after an alleged hit-and-run that sent a motorcyclist to hospital. Investigators say an SUV collided with a motorcycle in Markham, Ont., Sunday evening, seriously injuring the biker. They allege the driver of the […]
The Canadian PressLiam Casey TORONTO–The legalities of self-defence and what constitutes “reasonable” actions are the focus of the Crown’s appeal of a Hamilton-area homeowner’s acquittal in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Indigenous man in 2016. Peter Khill, of Binbrook, Ont., was found not guilty in 2018 of second-degree murder […]
