By Elisa Nguyen
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
enguyen@fortfrances.com

Next Tuesday, a new pickleball program is launching in the township of Emo for residents seeking to stay active by playing a fun and social sport. Pickleball drop-in sessions will be held every Tuesday night from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. between January 31 and February 21. Deborah Degroot, health […]

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Hometown winners The Rainy Lake attack (left) topped the Emo Express Mixed team (Bottom left) for first place in the FFMHA U11A home tournament last weekend. The Gillons Sharks (Bottom right) beat the FFGWHA Leafs for third place. MVPs in the finals were Tarryn Libiak from Emo Express at defence, […]

By Allan Bradbury
Staff Writer
abradbury@gmail.com

Two women’s teams at the Northern Ontario Curling provincials will represent curling clubs in the Rainy River District. Team Jacki McCormic will curl out of the Stratton Curling Club and Team Hailey Beaudry will represent the Fort Frances curling club. Both teams will face some challenges as neither of them […]

By Allan Bradbury
Staff writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com

Before sharing the results of last weekend’s squash tournament here is a brief history of the tournament as recounted by organizer Bob Tkachuk. The Sunset Country Squash Club’s annual home tournament dates back to 1988 according to Tkachuk. That year 20 players came together from Fort Frances and Kenora and […]

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A player from the Rainy Lake Attack carries the puck over the blue line with players from the Causeway Cougars in hot pursuit. The Fort Frances Minor Hockey U-11A tournament saw teams from Fort Frances, Dryden, and Emo duke it out for supremacy. Rainy Lake Attack were the eventual champions.

Record: 5-0 plus a tournament win (update with Tuesday game?) First place NORWOSSA standings Q: How has the season gone so far? Our season is going great. We have only lost one set so far (our rookie line’s first set of volleyball ever) including our tournament in Kenora which we […]

Members of the Alzheimer Society of Kenora-Rainy River and the Border Skating Club joined forces on Sunday, January 15, 2023 for the Skate for Alzheimer’s event that saw communities across the country take to the ice to help raise awareness of Alzheimer disease and other forms of dementia. Accorind to […]

By Allan Bradbury
Staff writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com

Record: 4-1; Second place at Westgate Tigers “Spike-off’ tournament in Thunder Bay and Third place at Winter Blast tournament in Kenora. Second place NORWOSSA standings Q: How has the season gone so far? A: We have been doing well so far this season. In league play we are in second […]

By Marc Lalonde
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
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One of Canada’s biggest financial institutions has expanded a program aimed at targeting potential Olympic athletes to Indigenous athletes as they prepare for the 2023 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG). The RBC Training Ground program will work with provincial delegations to host custom testing events with a number of provincial […]

The U13 A Boston Pizza Royals from the Fort Frances Minor Hockey Association traveled to Dryden to compete in their annual hockey tournament. After losing their opening game 3-1 the Royals rallied with six wins and were successful in capturing gold with an exciting 2-1 victory in the final game […]

Forward Clark Scaddan carries the puck behind the net in the Miners’ end on Saturday night. The game was a tightly-contested affair which was riddled with penalties. The Lakers lost 5-4 but most fans in the building will tell you it should have been at least 5-5 with multiple Lakers […]