It’s getting tight at the top. Gillons’ used their extra game on the schedule to full advantage Monday, downing Taggs 3-1 to move into sole possession of first place in the women’s division of the Borderland Soccer Association. Laureen Cousineau moved within a goal of league scoring leader Mandy Wilson […]
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Kerry Park Skatepark will be the place to check out sick moves with a healthy message when the Manna Skateboard Team will be delivering their own brand of positively Monday, July 14. Broadcast live on 91.9 The Edge starting at 3 p.m., the event will see the Manna Skateboard Team, […]
Just as the OPP always are on patrol somewhere on area highways and streets, the OPP Marine Unit is out on Rainy Lake during the summer months—and the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship is no exception. “For the bass tournament, we’re really out there to monitor and assist bass fishermen […]
Among the 136 teams competing in this year’s Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, there are many with world-class credentials and big-purse wins. But there will be none with a more intimate knowledge of the “playing field” than Team #41. Dale LaBelle and his son-in-law, Jody Shypit, have a combined experience […]
It was the perfect ending to a perfect year. Jared Catholique-Bruyere added the exclamation point to his phenomenal season by claiming the gold medal in the plus-81 kg division of the Juvenile category at the national judo championships in Toronto this past weekend. The 16-year-old Fort Frances martial artist hadn’t […]
The sound of metal on metal was ringing through the air during a pair of local horseshoe tournaments recently. Pat Stillan from International Falls won the singles division of a June 29 competition, with Dale Ross from Fort Frances finishing second, and Jim Ysen of International Falls taking third spot. […]
It’s early June. The waters in Rainy Lake are beginning to warm up, creeping toward the 16-degree C mark and spawning time for smallmouth bass. A good time to go after this sport fish. Meanwhile, in another part of the lake, the warming trend has brought large northern pike from […]
Maybe it didn’t rank right up there on a historical level with the children of Israel reaching Canaan. But when my friend Diane Lively steered her car up the long driveway toward the big white house and the picture-perfect baseball diamond, I knew I had reached my Promised Land. This […]
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 […]
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 […]
