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Adriana Harumi Ota may be thousands of miles from home, but that doesn’t mean the Brazilian gymnastics coach has changed her lifestyle very much. Ota, who performed, competed and coached gymnastics for 16 years in Rio de Janeiro, came up to Canada to do pretty much the same thing. “It’s […]

After a disappointing Canadian junior championship tournament last week, Christin Thomson redeemed herself by winning the Kitchen Creek Ladies Open on Saturday. Thomson carded an 81, nine strokes over par, to defend her title as the two-time Kitchen Creek Ladies Open Champion. But the champ remarked it was certainly not […]

Rick Sekulich, Rob Crowe and Al Holt, hit the jackpot this weekend at the Las Vegas Scramble golf tournament. The trio will be heading to Las Vegas in November after winning the inaugural tournament with a low score of 64 in the 87 player tournament at Kitchen Creek. “It was […]

Despite only practising for a little over a week, coaches of the Fort Frances Muskie football team have no question that the team is ready for Thursday’s game against Sturgeon Creek of Winnipeg. “They will be ready,” said Muskie football coach Todd Calder. “Most of the guys on the senior […]

Last year, Aaron Loken won the Kitchen Creek Classic almost by default after the second and final round was washed out by thunderstorms. This time around, the International Falls golfer, 22, wanted to make sure no one thought last year’s victory was just a fluke. And he did just that, […]

It will take more than hard work on the football field to crack the lineup on the Muskie football teams this season. “It’s important what you do out here,” said Bob Swing, head coach for the ‘A/B’ teams, as he pointed to the field during the opening night of training […]

It wasn’t a big fish as sturgeon go but it was large enough for Brian Bakken to win capture the annual North American Sturgeon Championship last Saturday in Birchdale, Mn. Bakken, a resident of Roseau, Mn., reeled in a 50.25-inch sturgeon from Rainy River with only 20 minutes left in […]

The Muskie boys’ hockey team hasn’t been officially selected yet, and assistant coach Ken Christiansen noted nobody’s spot on the roster is secure. “Tryouts aren’t over. We just hold tryouts now so we can cut the team down to workable numbers,” he explained. “We do it in the summer because […]

The “underdogs” hung tough most of the way but they eventually fell 10-4 to Team #1 in the annual Rainy River District Fastball League’s all-star game last Thursday in Barwick. “They were tied for most of the game,” noted organizer George Oltsher, who also managed Team #1. “In the bottom […]

Allison Hyatt recently discovered the Ontario Summer Games aren’t about winning the gold, they’re about what you learn along the way. Hyatt, 15, of Mine Centre was a member of the regional girls’ volleyball team that competed at the Games held Aug. 11-13 in Durham Region, where they finished fifth […]

Local Ministry of Natural Resources biologist Darryl McLeod won’t know all the figures until as late as January but early indicators show the Rainy Lake bass fishery is as healthy as it’s ever been. After sampling 501 fish caught during last month’s Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, the total, average, […]

The AA Developmental hockey camp had a successful year with some growing pains but it will run again next summer–possibly with a few changes. “It was a real big success,” co-owner and instructor Mike Allison noted Tuesday. “There were some growing pains we had to work out the first week […]