Camille Villeneuve never met a curling rink he didn’t like. The 75-year-old Chicoutimi, Que. resident will bring his road show to the Fort Frances Curling Club this Saturday (Oct. 11) at 2 p.m. for an exhibition match against local curlers as he brushes his way towards a spot in the […]
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It was a moment that would have made any mother teary-eyed. Joan Allison was more than glad to accept on behalf of her son, Mike, when the Fort Frances native and 11-year NHL veteran formally was inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in Thunder Bay on Sept. […]
It was a celebratory evening for many local anglers who were awarded spots in the 2004 Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship during last night’s random draw at La Place Rendez-Vous Hotel. Pam Buttner of Fort Frances was the luckiest of all the record 160 draw entrants as she was selected […]
Local curlers will have to wait another two days to don their sliders as ice preparation delays at the Fort Frances Curling Club forced the postponement of this tonight’s originally-scheduled season opener. Club president Bill Gushulak said complications over the weekend in getting the ice ready led to the postponement. […]
The Muskie ‘A’ football team found out you can go home again, but that doesn’t necessarily mean old troubles won’t be following close behind. A lacklustre start put the blackand- gold in yet another first-half hole that they couldn’t climb out of as the Churchill Bulldogs—sitting at 4-1 in the […]
If you’ve got the curling bug but didn’t think there was still time to sign up with the Fort Frances Curling Club this season, club president Bill Gushulak has good news to share. “We could certainly use more teams for women’s, men’s, and mixed play,” Gushulak said after the club’s […]
Two heads may be better than one, but the four legs of Aracelli Vasquez and Heather Dutton of Fort Frances were better than the rest last weekend at the 21st-annual Walker North Country Marathon/Team Relay/10-km event in Walker, Mn. Vasquez and Dutton paired up to win the team relay in […]
With 10 days between games, the Borderland Thunder had plenty of time to rest up their trigger fingers. Now, they’ll spend the next 10 days adjusting their rifle scopes. The defending SIJHL champion Thunder (1-2) fired 55 shots at Dryden Ice Dogs goalie Liam Johnston in their first game since […]
If anyone was videotaping the first two sets of the Muskie junior boys’ volleyball team’s clash with the Dryden Eagles here yesterday, head coach Greg Ste. Croix probably would request that it be turned into kindling. An uninspired first two sets put the Muskies (0-3) in too big a hole […]
Rebecca Cornell may not have her licence yet, but she was driving her former housemate and teammate to distraction. “She told me in the second half, ‘I’m going to foul out right now, I’ve had enough,’” recounted the first-year guard for the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team about Dryden Eagles’ […]
Lots of fish were caught, but it was the eight totalling 20.92 pounds reeled up by Mark Chapman and Kent Christianson of Baudette that earned them the $15,000 first prize Sunday in the fifth-annual Rainy River Walleye Tournament. The duo had finished third last year after vaulting from 38th place […]
There’s something about fishing in the fall that brings out the best in Ted Stewner and Al Carlson. It was a case of déja vu for the rest of the 71-team field last weekend at the second-annual LaBelle’s Rainy Lake Bass Classic as the Winnipeg and Kenora residents (Team #19) […]
