The Canadian Police Curling Championship gets underway this weekend in Winnipeg and Scott Gobeil once again will be taking part. Gobeil will be skipping Team Manitoba at the Granite Curling Club, with this being his 10th appearance at the police nationals. His rink, which includes third Tom Norton, second Rob […]
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The Fort Frances Midget ‘AA’ Canadians found themselves playing three games in three days here over the weekend, but managed to win two of them. “We do a lot of conditioning with the boys all the time, so the boys have been training for this the whole season,” noted coach […]
The eighth-annual “Silver Fox” Master squash tournament, for those aged 35 and older, was held in Thunder Bay last weekend, which saw three ladies from the local Sunset Country Squash Club attend. Donna Main, competing in the ‘D’ event, eventually lost to John Kolic of Thunder Bay by a score […]
The local KFC Colonels captured the ‘B’ crown at a PeeWee ‘A’ hockey tournament in Emo last weekend, beating the Fort Frances Lions 4-1 in the final. Jacob Smith netted a hat trick to lead the Colonels while Timothy Metke got their other goal. Assists went to Justin Anderson, Braedon […]
Peter Jensen, 12, and Donovan Taylor, 10, were in Winnipeg last weekend for the St. James Seal Program II long course meet. It was the first long course meet (50m pool) of the season for the Cyclone Swim Club members, who were competing against 200 12-and-under swimmers from 14 other […]
Local swimmer Alex Parent, 15, has been named to Team Ontario. This means the member of the Fort Frances Aquanauts will represent the province at the Canada Games in Regina in August in the Paralympic division. Parent competed with two other clubmates, Jessica Lowey and Nichole Lowey, at the Junior […]
Jen Grozelle finished with a +481 to capture top spot in the women’s division at the provincial P.O.A. championships in Timmins last weekend. The Fort Frances bowler also qualified for the Northern Ontario team that will compete at the national championships in Saskatoon in May. Grozelle, a first-time bowler who […]
Unfortunately, the third time wasn’t a charm for the Muskie girls’ curling team. Competing at NWOSSAA for the third time in four years, the Amy Nielson rink once again fell short of a berth to the all-Ontarios—winding up in second place after winning a tie-breaker yesterday afternoon. “This is our […]
And the Oscar goes to . . . Okay, okay, so it wasn’t quite the Academy Awards, but the Borderland Thunder’s awards banquet Sunday night at the local Legion was meaningful nonetheless. And when all was said and done, Kurt Hogard was the big winner, collecting the trophies for top […]
While the Tim Hortons Brier was being shown on two TV screens upstairs in the curling club over the weekend, Fort Frances’ equivalent was being held on the sheets down below. Thirty-two rinks took part in the annual men’s bonspiel this year, and it was the Scott Gobeil foursome who […]
A few weeks before she was to board a plane for Nagano, Japan, Joyce Gosselin spoke these words: “I want the gold really bad. That’s what I’m hoping for,” she had said. “I want to come back with something, and not just a ribbon.” She made good on her aspirations […]
Like Batman watching over Gotham City, Dave Allison had the best seat in the house last night as he was perched above the zamboni entrance at the Ice for Kids Arena. Allison was there, and not on the Borderland Thunder bench, because he was serving the last of his six-game […]
