The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth will have a Fort Frances feel to it for the second-straight year. Fort Frances natives Dean McLean and his son, Peter, will be back in Cowtown this week taking part in the wild horse racing and wild cow milking competitions at the Calgary Stampede. […]
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A pair of local sibling swimmers set the pace for the Fort Frances Aquanauts last weekend at the Man.-Sask. long-course swimming showdown in Regina. Rachel Dutton made four finals, registering a team-best fourth place finish in the girls’ 13-14 800m freestyle race. Her older sister, Heather, splashed her way into […]
It’s time to find out whether Jared Catholique-Bruyere’s remarkable story this season will have a happy ending. The 16-year-old local judoist has pieced together a monumental season—and takes his unbeaten record to Toronto this week for the junior national championships running tomorrow through Saturday. “I’m just concentrating on keeping it […]
The Muskie senior football team will have to be on their ‘A’ game this season—the first half of which will be spent away from the green grass of home. Under the Winnipeg High School Football League’s schedule, released this past week, the black-and-gold won’t host a game until Oct. 3. […]
On a sun-soaked day, the Devlin ball diamond was overcome by Shade. Charlotte Bazylewski and Ron Kellar each had four RBIs as the Fort Frances squad racked up nine runs in each of the first two innings to dump Up North (Devlin) 23-10 in the ‘A’ final of a slo-pitch […]
A one-time only event deserved one breath-taking finish. The foursome of Jeff Ogden, Rick Sekulich, Rob Crowe, and Bryce Coyle won in a playoff over Robert Atatise, Robert Atatise Jr., Scott Bridgeman, and Steve Pruys to capture The Great Centennial Golf Tournament on Sunday at Kitchen Creek. Ogden and his […]
Her favourite player’s on-ice days are behind him, but Heather Ash has a promising future as a bona fide goalie. The 21-year-old Fort Frances native watched her NHL hero, Patrick Roy, hang up the skates for good when he announced his retirement last month. But Ash is only just getting […]
Ray Bedard said he wasn’t going all the way to the land of the leprechaun to come home unlucky and empty-handed. He proved to be a man of his word. Bedard, 44, was up to the task of competing against the best of the best, winning a silver medal in […]
If winning one medal was thrilling for Ray Bedard, earning two must have been overwhelming. The Fort Frances resident returned to the podium over the weekend when he won bronze in the 200m dash at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Dublin, Ireland. With a time of 30.15 in […]
Young sailors, be advised: your ship will cast off one day late. The Best-Ever Ontario Optimist Mobile (BOOM) program, originally set to run July 1-4 on Sand Bay, now will begin Wednesday (July 2) and last until Saturday (July 5). The times for the sessions will remain from 9 a.m.-4 […]
The best athletes in the world find that extra gear when it matters most. Ray Bedard followed that formula to perfection. The Fort Frances resident soared to new heights yesterday with a personal best of 4.45 metres to win the silver medal in the long jump event at the Special […]
Somewhere Saturday night, Ed Rea was smiling down on the Emo Speedway with pride. Rea’s son, Dan, paid a fitting tribute to his late father as the Devlin driver charged to victory in the feature race of the street stock class during last week’s Borderland Racing Association action. Ed Rea—a […]
