Staff Calling all sun-seekers: Fun in the Sun wants you! The annual Canada Day celebrations will feature a new wrinkle this July 1 with a 4-on-4 beach volleyball tournament scheduled to take place along with the rest of the festivities at Pither’s Point Park. Each team is guaranteed three games, […]
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Mitch Calvert The Muskie soccer program features team practice uniforms with the word “one” emblazoned on the front—stressing team over individual. That “one” word, however, stood in the way of the Muskie boys’ goal of advancing out of pool play at the OFSAA ‘AA’ showdown in Hamilton last week as […]
Mitch Calvert The Muskie girls’ soccer team was under-manned and over-matched at the ‘AA’ all-Ontarios in Kenora last week—dropping all three of their games in failing to advance out of round-robin play. The squad closed out the tournament on a positive note—holding top-ranked St. Joseph’s to three goals in a […]
Mitch Calvert Fort Frances native Steve Arpin finished in 11th-place on Saturday at the Pocono 200 in Long Pond, Penn.—his latest race on the ARCA RE/MAX Series. Arpin had the seventh-fastest time in practice, but the bulk of qualifying was rained out Friday so Arpin started 14th based on owners’ […]
Mitch Calvert There’s always next year. Josh Strain, a Grade 11 student at Fort High, bowed out of the OFSAA senior boys’ high jump competition in Toronto on Friday with a 16th-place showing. Strain failed to clear 1.80 metres—a height he made in taking gold at the NWOSSAA championships last […]
Mitch Calvert Paul Noonan was recognized last week for his 15 years of volunteer coaching with the Muskie boys’ basketball program by the Rainy River District School Board. “His leadership has contributed towards the successful achievement of numerous awards, NorWOSSA championships, and, in [2001], he took the Muskie team to […]
Staff Fort Frances native Steve Arpin put together his second-best ARCA RE/MAX Series result on Saturday at the Pocono 200 in Long Pond, Penn. Arpin was seventh after qualifying with a best lap time of 55.42, then led for four laps in the early going of the race before Joey […]
Staff It was a tough day for Muskie Josh Strain at the all-Ontario track and field championships in Toronto on Friday. The Grade 11 student at Fort High failed to clear 1.80 metres to bow out in 16th place in the senior boys’ high jump competition. Strain made that height […]
Staff The Muskie boys’ soccer team made serious strides at the all-Ontarios in Hamilton last week but fell short of its goal of a quarter-final berth. After tying their opening two games on Thursday against Courtice Secondary School (0-0) and E.S. Theriault (1-1), the Muskies lost 2-1 to St. Joseph’s […]
Mitch Calvert Girls bounced from contention By the time you read this, the Muskie boys’ soccer team will know whether or not they have advanced to the quarter-finals at this year’s all-Ontarios in Hamilton. Battling three other teams for the second playoff berth out of Pool ‘B,’ the black-and-gold had […]
Mitch Calvert KENORA—The Muskie girls’ soccer team will head back to the drawing board following a 5-2 loss to Hamilton District Christian High School in their opener at the all-Ontarios here this morning. Already without the services of Nicole Mueller and Anikka McTavish due to injuries, Kimmy LaFleur was the […]
Press Release RBC Financial Group is partnering with the Riverside Foundation for Health Care again this year for its third-annual RBC Charity Golf Classic, which will be held Saturday, July 11 at the Heron Landing Golf Course on Couchiching. The funds raised are being earmarked for Riverside’s chemotherapy program, a […]
