This is it. Win, or you’re out. Kaput. Finnito. Finished. The stage is set for tonight’s Rainy River District Fastball League playoff game between host Sight & Sound and Big Grassy, with the winner playing Barwick for the league championship on Tuesday. Game time is 8 p.m. at VanJura Stadium. […]
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Meet Steve Arpin. At only 20 years of age, the local race car diver’s name receives 8,370 hits on an Internet search engine—and for good reason. Arpin is considered by many to be the best driver to ever come out of Fort Frances and he has the track record to […]
The Buick Scramble is the world’s largest amateur golf tournament, with more than 80, 000 golfers participating annually in the event that boasts Tiger Woods as its honourary chairman. A local foursome, along with Kitchen Creek’s club pro, was part of that group and represented Fort Frances well at the […]
After the game, the sensation was unmistakable, like the words of a favourite song that come flooding back and the byproduct of emotions that follow. The quick breath. The pacing heart. The goose bumps. The flushed face. Gillons’ had felt this way earlier in August after winning the annual “Borderland […]
Gillons’ came into this season motivated not to let what happened last year, in their championship game loss to Taggs, happen again this year. And after a thrilling final against Subway, Gillons’ lay claim to their place as the Borderland Soccer League men’s champs with a 3-2 victory in extra […]
“Love hurts/love scares/love wounds and mars/any heart.” The opening line to Nazareth’s biggest hit in “Love Hurts” was a soothing tune for the Sight & Sound players who turned out to watch the Scottish band at Warp 9 on Thursday night after marring the hearts of Rainy River. The local […]
Even a hat trick by Lindsay Roy of Curves couldn’t prevent Taggs from doing something that most people didn’t think they could do. And that was win the women’s Borderland Soccer League crown. “It’s pretty disappointing and it’s pretty unfortunate,” Roy lamented about her team’s 4-3 loss to Taggs in […]
Deru kugi wa utareru. Translated from Japanese, the above means “sticking out nail—be hammered.” And for Jordan Davis and Michael McCaig, it’s a perfect description for what they and their Manitoba Polar Ice teammates did in Sapporo, Japan. The ‘AAA’ Bantam hockey team from Winnipeg competed in the Sapporo International […]
What Vijay Singh was to the PGA Championship, Gerry Hercun was to the Kitchen Creek Classic. The Classic, which attracted 102 golfers on Saturday and Sunday, may not be of the same calibre as the PGA Championship, but don’t tell that to Hercun as his win was the first in […]
Yes, the 28th rendition of the summer Olympics is underway, but no, one of the world’s fastest-growing sports—wakeboarding—will not be seen in Athens. But it was seen here Saturday as former resident Tressa Main and her team of wakeboarders, the “Freeriders” along with “Hangtime,” organized the town’s first-ever wakeboarding clinic. […]
After tabulating and marking 204 scores at the Kitchen Creek Classic, Fort Frances resident Gerry Hercun beat the best to be the best. Hercun carded a 142 total for 36 holes as 102 golfers competed in the annual Kitchen Creek Classic on Saturday and Sunday. “It hasn’t been a long […]
Former resident Tressa Main, who now lives in Winnipeg, and her team of wakeboarders, the “Freeriders,” will be holding a clinic on the upper river tomorrow from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. “We’ve been talking about doing something in Fort for such a while,” Main had said in an interview with the […]
