Lucas Punkari After it was announced last Tuesday that he would be inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in Thunder Bay this September, Fort Frances native and former U.S. college hockey head coach Bill Selman almost immediately began to receive messages of congratulations from those who have […]
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Lucas Punkari After capturing the title of Ontario’s Strongest Man in Kitchener the previous weekend, local “strongman” Luke Skaarup continued his recent run of success this past Saturday in Thunder Bay. In his return to his hometown, Skaarup won four of the five events to capture the Thunder Bay’s Strongest […]
Staff The Rainy River District Fastball League playoffs continue this evening, with the first four elimination games scheduled to take place. The marquee game will be at VanJura Stadium here as the two-time defending champ Sight & Sound Wolves look to stay alive against the Couchiching Raiders. Elsewhere, the Stratton […]
Lucas Punkari FORT FRANCES—After an 16-year quest that had seen its share of heartaches over the years, Mark Raveling and Mike Luhman finally have done it. With a three-day total weight of 55.06 pounds, the three-time runner-ups at the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship finally were able to hoist the […]
Lucas Punkari Perennial threats to win the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, Mark Raveling and Mike Luhman were sitting in an excellent position to finally break through after the first day of action yesterday. The three-time runners-up, who finished in third place last year, weighed in an impressive five-fish bag […]
Lucas Punkari A total of 92 boats launched from the Sorting Gap Marina early this morning as the 18th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship got underway. As the anglers lined up along Front Street waiting to put their boats into the water, the excitement level was easy to see on […]
Press Release A Fort Frances native will be among those going into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in Thunder Bay during its 31st-annual induction dinner and ceremonies set for Sept. 29. Bill Selman, who is being inducted in the “Builder” category, learned the game of hockey growing up […]
Lucas Punkari Over the course of his season-and-a-half dominance in the WISSOTA Modified division at the Emo Speedway, Gavin Paull usually has had an easy time of things when it came down to the feature race each week. This past Saturday night, however, Paull faced arguably his toughest test in […]
Lucas Punkari Even though weather conditions are almost identical to what they were here a year ago, some of the anglers who have been pre-fishing prior to the start of the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship tomorrow are finding things to be a lot more difficult. In the lead-up to […]
Sarah Pruys Since its inception began in 1995, the Ministry of Natural Resources has been sampling fish caught during the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship to monitor the health of the smallmouth bass population in Rainy Lake and to see if the tournament has any negative effects on the species. […]
Lucas Punkari For a group of anglers who had never taken part in the annual Safeway KidPro tournament, youngster Aaron Meyers and his “pro” partners, James Kaemingh and Dan Veldhuisen, looked like seasoned veterans on Rainy Lake on Sunday. The trio’s three biggest bass—out of the 15 they caught that […]
Lucas Punkari While the turnout was lower than what he had hoped, head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan was happy with the performances by those who took part in the Fort Frances Lakers’ annual prospect camp in International Falls over the weekend. “My overall impression was a fairly good […]
