Sam Odrowski The Rainy Lake Nordic Ski Club now will be able to better maintain and groom its trails at Rocky Inlet since receiving a sizeable grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. A group of club members held a breakfast at the trails Thursday morning to celebrate the announcement. The […]
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Staff The Sunset Country Métis is offering the Canadian Firearms Safety Course and the Ontario Hunter Education Program free of charge to its citizens, with a special focus on youths aged 12 and up. Instructor Peter Van Drunen will teach the Canadian Firearm Safety Course on March 28-30 at the […]
Jamie Mountain It was a tough outing for the Confederation College Thunderhawks’ men’s curling rink at the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association national curling championships that were held Friday through yesterday in Fredericton, N.B. The rink, which includes former Muskies Kurtwood McGuire (skip) and Jason Bazylewski (second), went 0-7 to finish […]
Staff A group of Treaty #3 First Nations’ girls came together to form a PeeWee Warriors hockey team that recently competed at the Little Native Hockey League held March 11-14 in Mississauga. Nine of the girls were from Treaty #3 territory (Couchiching, Nigigoonsiminikaaning, Big Grassy, Dalles, Rainy River First Nations, […]
Jamie Mountain It’s probably starting to feel a little like déjà vu for the Fort Frances Lakers when it comes to the SIJHL playoffs. Each year, the squad’s road seemingly leads them to the Dryden GM Ice Dogs–and that’s the case once again as the Lakers will square off against […]
Staff The Fort Frances PeeWee ‘AA’ Canadians went 5-1 en route to claiming the HNO Branch championship title for a third-straight year. Held March 8-10, the Canadians opened tourney play on the Friday morning with a narrow 2-1 shootout loss to the KC Sabres. After a scoreless first period, Dakota […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers will be heading into the SIJHL playoffs with a little more confidence after splitting their final regular-season games over the weekend at the Ice For Kids Arena. In what was a preview of their first-round playoff match-up, the fifth-place Lakers eked out a tough 6-5 […]
Staff Keighan Gerrie, Jacob Brown, and Kyle Auger combined for nine points to pace the league-leading Thunder Bay North Stars to a 9-1 romp over the visiting Fort Frances Lakers on Tuesday night. Thunder Bay (47-4-1-1) roared out to a 3-0 lead in the first period on goals by Maxime […]
Staff The Emo Misfits scored with two minutes left in overtime to pull out a thrilling 4-3 win over the Fort Frances Chiefs in the final of the Chiefs’ fourth-annual tournament that was held March 1-3 at “The Duke” (Couchiching Arena). The Misfits opened the scoring with 51 seconds to […]
Jamie Mountain A sixth-grader from Devlin made some history Saturday when she became the first-ever female to place for the Mighty Mustangs youth wrestling program at the MNUSA state wrestling tournament in Rochester, Mn. McKenna McTavish, competing in the all-girls’ division, took third place in her weight class. “McKenna is […]
Jamie Mountain It was a day of nice weather and good competition for those who attended the second-annual Rainy Lake “Loppet” on Saturday afternoon. Hosted by the Rainy Lake Nordic Ski Club at its Rocky Inlet trails, nine skiers made the most of a mild winter day and put their […]
Jamie Mountain Each match is a learning experience and sometimes the lessons you need to learn most come from tough losses. The Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team experienced its share of disappointment last week as the black-and-gold compiled a 1-3 record in Pool ‘A’ play to finish fourth and wind […]
