Imagine an early-morning tee-off time with the mist rising above the trees. And as you’re about to address the ball, you check one last time in case a moose has strolled onto the fairway. A moose? That’s just one of the opportunities at the new Heron Landing Golf Course at […]
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The seesaw battle between Mini-Sprint drivers Ken Perry and Kyle Ridlon was among the highlights of weekly stock car racing action Saturday night at the Emo Speedway. Ridlon, who trailed Perry by just six points in the overall division standings coming into Saturday’s action, took the checkered flag over Perry […]
Mike Busch is the kind of guy who doesn’t forget who his friends are. So when the coach of the under-17 regional girls’ basketball squad was allowed to use the new Educational Resource Centre at Couchiching for team practices on weekends last season, he remembered to repay the favour. Busch’s […]
The central event of the Fort Frances adult soccer calendar rolls into town this weekend as the annual “Borderland Ball Blast” starts tomorrow at the St. Francis Sportsfields. Eight men’s teams and seven women’s teams, including squads from Winnipeg, Dryden, Thunder Bay, and Kenora as well as here, will square […]
Scotty Bowman may be the dean of hockey coaches, but Ron Bowman is becoming the professor emeritus of the local Rendezvous Yacht Club. Bowman and his boat “In Tune” are making a mockery of the club’s Wednesday night fall race series as victories July 23 and 30 made him three-for-three […]
With soccer coursing through her veins, you would assume Sarah Noonan has some noteworthy running skills. Noonan showed just how much by winning the women’s 20-29 age division in a time of 24:20 at the Running Bear 5-K race last weekend in Stratton in conjunction with Morley’s centennial celebrations. The […]
Playoff fever is running through the Borderland Soccer Association—and both Gillons’ teams aren’t about to lower the temperature of their red-hot play. The Gillons’ men’s team (14-3-1) have had first place locked up for quite some time, but didn’t look like they had lost their edge in a season-ending 5-1 […]
The youngest local gridiron enthusiasts will be back on the field in two weeks, going helmet on helmet to ready themselves for another season. Head coach Dean Bruyere and his staff will open training camp for the Muskie ‘C’ football squad Aug. 18 from 5:30-8:30 p.m., running at the same […]
It only made sense that the brightest smile on the Kitchen Creek Golf Course on Sunday afternoon belonged to a dentist. Dr. Steve Chown parlayed a mid-round birdie run and a par on #18 into his first victory in the Kitchen Creek club championships after former champ Greg Ward just […]
If you can’t putt, you can’t win in golf. Just ask Happy Gilmore—or Glen Mills. A wonky putter on the second day of play caused the assistant pro at Kitchen Creek to fall out of contention after a strong opening round at last week’s Manitoba PGA championship at Larters at […]
Mike Allison was no taller than the rink boards when he started to dream about making it to the NHL. “I think it began when I was when I was seven years old, thinking I was all the NHL superstars while playing hockey down in the basement,” said the Fort […]
Some shots found the hole; many other came to rest in wooded or watery graves. But it wasn’t so much the competition as it was the cause that counted at yesterday’s inaugural Rick Pearson Memorial Golf Tournament at Kitchen Creek Golf Club. More than $7,000 was raised by the 36 […]
