FORT FRANCES—Alex Parent has overcome bigger obstacles in his life, so the fact he failed to qualify for Canada’s swim team for the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing later this year isn’t going to hold him under water for long. The 19-year-old McMaster University student was first diagnosed with a rare […]
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Fort Frances High School’s on again, off again track program took its largest contingent ever to the NorWOSSA championships in Thunder Bay last week, bringing 14 runners and one jumper, but it was the lone jumper who stole the show. Josh Strain, 16, represented the school in three events—placing in […]
FORT FRANCES—Emo: Home of Luke Judson. The sign leading into the village on Highway 11/71 west of Fort Frances doesn’t read like that now, but if Luke Judson continues on the path he’s on, it may soon say just that. Judson spent the last couple of weeks taking in all […]
In their final tune-up before the NorWOSSA playoffs next week, the Muskie boys’ and girls’ soccer squads each played a pair of games in Kenora this past Wednesday. With a berth in the league final already wrapped up, the girls’ team rested Sian Donald, Anikka McTavish, and Lauren Gurski for […]
Heron Landing will be the site of the third-annual Tim Perreault Memorial golf tournament tomorrow. Twenty-two teams of four have signed up to remember one of the Couchiching golf course’s original board members, who passed away at just 31 due to chronic pancreatitis. Perreault’s mother, Pauline, who has been organizing […]
The Muskie football team has just completed the first week of its two-week spring camp. More than 30 eager and energetic players showed up for a week of getting into shape and learning the basics. A majority of the players who came out last week were students presently in Grade […]
With gusting breezes better suited to support wind power generation than stock car racing, the Borderland Racing Association got its 2008 season underway at the Emo Speedway on Saturday night. About 250 hard-core racing fans braved the cold to watch their usual favourites, as well as some newcomers, battle for […]
Mother Nature forced the weekly skeet shooting event at the Fort Frances Sportsmen’s Club to Thursday, May 15, but the two-day delay didn’t affect Len Noonan any. Noonan led the way with a perfect score of 25, complemented by rounds of 23 and 18, while fellow competitor Tony Manuce followed […]
Adam Craig is living a soccer coach’s dream. Having already clinched a bye into the NorWOSSA final next Wednesday in Kenora, Craig could rest easy heading into the Muskie girls’ soccer team’s final regular-season game today. “We will have the opportunity to play some of our younger players and also […]
Forty-five fleet-footed enthusiasts from the area invaded Fargo, N.D. on the weekend to compete in the Fargo Marathon. The top female from Fort Frances in the full marathon was Connee Badiuk, 46, who finished in 4:00:58—a personal best time which also was good enough to qualify for the world-renowned Boston […]
FORT FRANCES—The Sturgeon Bay Open bass tournament has grown from strictly a local event to one that draws anglers from throughout the United States and Canada. And the Canadians who ventured into Wisconsin for the May 17-18 tournament picked up much of the hardware. Bill Godin, owner of Lake Despair […]
FORT FRANCES—Joe Basaraba, one of the town’s rising hockey stars, is now able to say he trains with a coach to the pros. To better prepare himself for training camp with the OHL’s Erie Otters, Basaraba has enlisted the help of trainer Steve Baillot of Thunder Bay—the same trainer who […]
