It is quite easy to forget how valuable electricity is to us. Shortly after my father built our cabin on Rainy Lake, we gave up Coleman lanterns and replaced our lights with electricity. We had a small diesel generator that provided enough power to light the cabin and run a […]
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Robin McCormickDevlin correspondent The second barn concert of the season at Cornell Farms in La Vallee will feature Pat Temple and the HiLO Players tomorrow (July 12) starting at 7:30 p.m. Temple is well-known for his American music where Western swing meets hillbilly jazz. He has played everywhere across North […]
Staff Offence was hard to come by for CJ Contracting and Centra Pipelines on Monday night. Ian Jodoin scored early in the first half to pace first-place CJ (6-2) to a 1-0 win over second-place Centra (4-4) in Borderland Soccer League men’s division action at the St. Francis Sports Field. […]
Jamie Mountain The Fort Frances Vipers hosted a volleyball camp last Tuesday through Saturday at Fort High and J.W. Walker School. The camp, which ran from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. each day and was open to both boys and girls, focused on all the fundamentals of volleyball so the young athletes […]
Red Gut Babes’ third baseman Mel Jones scooped up a grounder and proceeded to make the throw to first to record the out during her squad’s 14-1 win over the Fort Frances Mud Dogs last Wednesday evening at the St. Francis Sports Field.
Tania Bimm of Atikokan won the $1,000 up for grabs on Canada Day in the Rainy River District Mutual Aid Association’s weekly cash calendar draw. Kevin Shmyr of Atikokan was the $100 winner for July 1. Winning $30 for July 1-7 were Marlene and Ernie Hershey (Atikokan), Bruce Foy (Atikokan), […]
Submitted Karl Engstron and Jeff Gustafson hold up part of their winning catch from Shoal Lake this past weekend.
Jamie Mountain The Fort Frances Lakers have added some size and versatility up front with their signing of forward Isaac Baron last week. The Burnsville, Mn. native comes to Fort Frances after spending last season in the NA3HL with the Iowa Bulls and La Crosse Freeze. In 22 regular-season games […]
Don Copenace was feeling the love as his partner, Greg Swire, gave him a joking smooch on the cheek after the duo claimed the title at the 18th-annual “Castin For Cash” bass tournament held Friday and Saturday at Lake Despair Lodge. The pair had a two-day haul of 29.19 pounds, […]
Jamie Mountain Jess Steele held up some of the 10.79-pound haul that she and her dad, Jim, caught earlier in the day on Saturday. The duo finished 14th with a two-day weight of 18.38 pounds.
Stephanie Hagenaars The Science North “Bluecoats” visited the Fort Frances Public Library last Thursday for a “Make it Move” workshop, which demostrates the science behind gravity, momentum, and biomechanics through hands-on activities. To demonstrate why buildings fall in an earthquake, Bluecoat Dave Bates (not pictured) gave Torsten Bergen and Maddie […]
Jamie Mountain You definitely can say they saved the best for last. Needing a haul of 11.56 pounds on the final day in order to overtake Zack McBride and Mike Wilson, the duo of Don Copenace and Greg Swire did just that–tipping the scales with 12.45 pounds to claim the […]
