Brady Caul is cooking with gas lately. The speed demon has been burning up the infield dirt track at Emo Speedway the past two weeks, winning the feature race of the Gas division during go-kart racing action June 27 and this past Friday. Caul led Robbie Brandrick to the line […]
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As the storm clouds rolled across Lake Despair and its chain of lakes on Sunday afternoon, most anglers fishing in the Castin’ For Cash bass tournament were frantically trying to catch one more fish–or their first of the day–before the skies opened up. But not the eventual winners, Pat Cross […]
Winning is old hat to one—and something the other could get used to. The Sioux Narrows duo of Norm Lindsay and Jess Swenson enter this year’s Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship as the defending champs, and consequently the team with the biggest target on their chests for the other 135 […]
Eleven kids aged eight to 14 took part in the BOOM program at Pither’s Point last week where they learned the basics of sailing. The BOOM program is a mobile sailing school that travels around Ontario and teaches sailing in communities where there are no sailing programs. “All the kids […]
They exploded off the blocks, and did their best to make the road trip worthwhile. A 14-member contingent from the Fort Frances Aquanaut Swim Team put in a team performance riddled with individual personal bests at the sixth-annual Metris M3F Invitational long-course meet in Minneapolis, Mn. June 20-22. Boyd Badiuk, […]
Ray Bedard not only walked the straight and narrow, he ran and jumped it, too—which is more than he could say for some of his fellow competitors. The 44-year-old Fort Frances resident returned last week from the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Dublin, Ireland with a pair of medals […]
Never judge anyone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes—or swam a mile in their lake. The thought of taking to the waters of Rainy Lake under strictly human power may be daunting to some, but Heather Dutton met the challenge head on to win her second-straight overall title […]
For Ray Herbert, his second attempt at a firefighter challenge competition went better than the first though he did run into some set backs. Herbert attended a regional event in Thunder Bay last month, taking third place in the volunteer fire fighter category and 22nd overall. “I got beat by […]
A new set of champs were named in the Lake Despair “Castin’ For Cash” live release bass tournament this weekend, as Pat Cross and Keith Cates found fish yesterday— while most others struggled— and vaulted 14 spots for the win. For the duo, it was hard to believe they’d better […]
There’s no better way to finish off an undefeated streak than in a blaze of glory. Fort resident Jared Catholique- Bruyere, 16, capped off a remarkable season by winning the gold medal in the plus-81 category of the Juvenile division at the national judo championships in Toronto this past weekend. […]
The defending champions are back in control. Curves moved into first place with a 2-1 win over second-place Gillons’ on June 18—and maintained their lead this past week in women’s Borderland Soccer Association play. Kate Basaraba had both goals for Curves (6-1) against Gillons’ while Susie Grynol had the lone […]
A trend is starting to establish itself during the Rendezvous Yacht Club’s racing season, and it’s one that works just fine for Ron Bowman and Quinn McCarthy. Bowman sailed off with his third-straight win in the club’s Wednesday night spring racing series June 25 as he guided “In Tune” over […]
