Staff Long-time skeet club member Len Noonan regained his championship-winning form during the weekly shoot Tuesday evening at the Fort Frances Sportmen’s Club range by Frog Creek. Noonan shot rounds of 23, 21, and 20 to go with his perfect score of 25. Tony Manuge, who fired two-straight perfect rounds […]
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Staff Molly Carlson is off to a good start at the 2009 Speedo junior national diving championships in Victoria, B.C. The 10-year-old Thunder Bay native, who has family ties to Fort Frances, dove to a fourth-place finish in the one-metre springboard event yesterday in the 11-and-under division. Carlson had a […]
Press Release As the last weekend in July approaches, residents of the Bigfork Valley are gearing up for the annual North Star Stampede. Running July 24-26 in Effie, Mn., the Friday evening performance starts the weekend at 5 p.m., with the Saturday and Sunday shows starting at 2 p.m. The […]
Staff With some choppy waves to ride on this year, it was Curtis Boivin who came out on top at the annual bathtub races held at Pither’s Point Park in conjunction with Canada Day activities. With a quick start from the beach, Boivin—now the winner for three years in a […]
Staff Alex McDonald of Devlin tied for fifth place in the boys’ 17 and up division at the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour’s Manitoba Series held July 2-3 at the Selkirk Golf Club. McDonald, 17, who golfs out of the Heron Landing course at Couchiching, carded rounds of 83 and […]
Staff Area residents came out to toss their luck around in the annual mixed horseshoe tournament held as part of Canada Day celebrations at Pither’s Point Park. With 18 players testing their skills, coming out on top was the team of Ray Smith (North West Bay) and Darwin Johnson (International […]
Anthony Leek After a one-week hiatus due to inclement weather, stock car racing action resumed Saturday night at the Emo Speedway for Amsoil Dirt Track Series action in three classes. The Township of Emo also had its Canada Day cake on hand during the program and a fireworks display followed […]
Mitch Calvert A stand-out Muskie basketball player has been lured across the river to play for the Rainy River Community College Voyageurs this coming season. Travis Stromness, who spent last season as a fifth-year addition with the senior boys’ team at Fort High, was recruited by RRCC at the power […]
Elisabeth Heslop The 11th-annual RBC Charity Golf Classic is set to go this Saturday (July 11), but there’s still plenty of room for more teams. Local RBC branch manager Heather Johnson said they had 17 teams registered as of Friday. “I know there are quite a few out there [that […]
Elisabeth Heslop For the past three years, Ralph Galusha and Pat Steele have come in second at the “Castin’ for Cash” bass fishing tournament on Lake Despair. This year, the Devlin-area duo is going to take another stab at a first-place catch in the ninth-annual event later this week. “There’s […]
Elisabeth Heslop The annual Canada Day fastball tournament in Barwick crowned a familiar champion again this year. The Sight & Sound Wolves (Fort Frances) thumped the Barwick Blue Knights’ “Young Guns” 11-2 in the ‘A’ final to capture the title for the third-straight year. Wolves’ manager Derek McKinnon said the […]
Mitch Calvert It takes a special type of teenager to strap themselves into a race car and commit every summer weekend to burning rubber on a track. But there are plenty with that mentality here in the Rainy River District—including 10 drivers on the Borderland Racing Association circuit who wheel […]
