The inaugural “AA” developmental hockey camp hasn’t even taken to the ice yet and already co-owner Mike Allison is looking ahead to next year. Allison said he would like to incorporate a goalie clinic as well as a women’s camp that would run separately from the main one next year. […]
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Despite the fact the local judo season wrapped up months ago, Jared Catholique-Bruyere continued to train with his sights set on winning a medal at the Junior Olympic Championships in Toronto. And all that hard work paid off as Catholique-Bruyere, 12, slammed his way to a bronze medal against six […]
Dryden Husky staved off a late rally to down the Emo Bulldogs 6-4 on Sunday in the final of the annual Barwick fastball tournament. Trailing 6-0 heading into the seventh inning, Emo’s bats finally came alive–scoring four runs (highlighted by a two-run homer by Warren Voth) and having runners on […]
When Canada’s junior women’s softball team took to the field in Taiwan last month, one of its players had a Fort Frances connection. Teri Herbert, a utility infielder who lives in Red Deer, Alta., is the granddaughter of Joe and Bertha Ossachuk and Mr. and Mrs. George Herbert of here. […]
Despite strong winds with gusts up around 70 km/h, three local golfers managed to overcome the conditions Monday and qualify for the Manitoba Amateur Golf Championship later this month. Mike Dick fired a four-over-par 76 under the less-than-ideal conditions on the La Verendrye course in La Broquerie, Man., shooting a […]
Mike Gurski of Fort Frances, co-owner of “Ram Connection” here, is among the lineup of outdoor enthusiasts to be featured in this month’s edition of “Fish-Fur-Game” magazine. The article highlights the “Ram” power snare system Gurski and his wife, Sharon, sell in their wildlife supply control centre located in the […]
Being told by the coaches that your chances of making a team aren’t very good isn’t exactly the type of feedback a player wants to hear. But that’s exactly what happened to Muskie senior basketball player Evan Woodlands at the Northern Ontario tryouts in Sudbury earlier this week. Woodlands admitted […]
The OFSAA 2000 soccer committee has decided to use four fields when Fort Frances hosts the all-Ontario girls’ soccer championship next June. The decision, reached at last week’s general meeting, is the best way to organize a 16-team, four-pool tournament, co-organizer Jason Kabel said. Tournament officials originally had planned to […]
When Tyler Cannon, 10, went fishing with his best pal, Alex Shoemaker, nine, on their first “Kids for Fishing” trip Saturday, he did what any young angler would do for a pal and lent him a piece of tackle. While Cannon caught his own small perch, little did he know […]
The four-year-old softball diamonds at St. Francis do not drain properly. After a rainfall, players can expect to find several pools of water lying on the playing surface on all three. “Something should be done,” local resident Bill Hamilton said as he looked at the centre diamond. Community Services manager […]
The Fort Frances gymnastics clubs are very excited because Mike Lang of Thunder Bay has accepted the job as head coach starting Aug. 1. Lang started coaching for the Thunder Bay Twisters club 25 years ago. When that club amalgamated with the Thunder Bay Gymnastics Association, he became a competitive […]
Fort High has set up a two-man committee to look into re-evaluating the user-fee system for its sports programs this summer for the 1999-2000 school year. Athletic director Rick Wiedenhoeft and vice-principal Ian Simpson could recommend lowering the fees even though the ones here were found, on average, to be […]
