Somewhere this weekend, John Kingsley Downs was smiling—and probably telling one more batter the pitch was “on the corner.” The Rainy River District was shaken by the untimely passing of Downs, who died at age 61 in a one-vehicle accident on Canada Day as the Pinewood resident was heading back […]
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They’re rivals on the field, but a pair of combined soccer squads from the Borderland Soccer Association put their differences aside to prosper at a tournament in Dryden this past weekend. The Taggs/Nova men’s team went undefeated to capture the men’s title, while the Fort Frances “Money”, a mixed Curves/Gillons’ […]
Cathy Tovey could use a helping hand—several, in fact. The director of volunteers for the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship is issuing a community-wide request for anyone who wants to pitch in and help in any one of a number of different areas to help make sure the July 21-26 […]
Carlee Bosma couldn’t take the heats, but she wasn’t about to get out of the kitchen. The Emo driver watched Jeff Davis dominate all three qualifying heats, then upstaged the Devlin driver by winning the feature race of the Beginner division during this week’s go-kart action hosted by the Borderland […]
Money isn’t everything, but it certainly isn’t a bad drawing card. The annual “Dash for Cash” children’s bicycle races at Emo Speedway on Saturday night were a monstrous success, with approximately 100 youth testing themselves against their peers in a battle to capture some coin and, in the case of […]
Steve Arpin’s stock car racing career is going south in a hurry—and he’s perfectly fine with that. The Fort Frances driver has spent most of this racing season below the 49th parallel, making stops at various tracks on the WISSOTA circuit throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin. The strategy is not geared […]
It was like the old McDonald’s commercials with Wayne Gretzky and Mats Sundin. Off the crossbar, off the goalie, nothing but net. Tara MacEachern’s late goal didn’t earn Taggs a Big Mac, but it did secure them their first point of the year in a 2-2 tie with league-leading Curves […]
The week off didn’t do anything to dull Vic Larson’s edge. The Dryden resident rebounded from two fourth-place finishes in the qualifying heats to win the feature race in the Modified division during Borderland Racing Association action last Saturday at the Emo Speedway. With rain washing out the previous week’s […]
The deadline to register for the annual Kid/Pro tourney, held in conjunction with the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, has been extended until tomorrow, organizers said. April Matheson, a summer student working for the FFCBC, said this morning that the deadline had to be extended this year because not enough […]
They’re the greenest of the greenhorns in the field, they’ve never fished in the tournament before, and they’ll be the fifth-last team to depart from the dock on opening day. So, Brian Christian, how do you like the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship so far? “I think we’ve got a […]
The annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship means many things to many people: good food and drink, a chance to catch up with old friends, games and activities for the kids, and, of course, some good fishing. But none of it would be possible without the 500 volunteers who give […]
Fresh off his victory in the Emo Walleye Classic this spring, Greg Stahn now has his eyes set on a bigger prize—the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship (FFCBC). Stahn and his partner, Todd Baker of Emo, topped all the competition in late May with a two-day bag of nearly 20 […]
