Students from Robert Moore School’s senior kindergarten class are a picture of confidence while wading in the pool at the Memorial Sports Centre during their afternoon swimming lessons. More importantly, these lessons are introducing these first-time swimmers to basic water safety skills—ones they’ll use for the rest of their lives. […]
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Evan Woodland scored five-straight points in the dying moments of Sunday’s final to help the La Place Rendez-Vous men’s basketball team take the title at its annual six-team tournament here. Down 59-57 to the Winnipeg Cyclones with just over a minute to go, the former Muskie cashed in on a […]
The newly-resurrected Fort Frances Little League almost has all its bases covered. With three managers and practice facilities in tow, the league—sporting 65 local players—is that much closer to its first set of “interlocking” games with International Falls scheduled to begin in early May. “We’re plugging along,” said league organizer […]
The 2002 Muskie boys’ soccer team hopes a little bit of everything will be enough to end a three-year drought for NorWOSSA gold. “It’s starting to really come around, especially practices the last part of last week and this week,” said Muskie co-coach Rick Chambers, who has been working with […]
The Muskie senior badminton team sent three entries to next week’s NWOSSAA playoffs after strong performances yesterday at the NorWOSSA final in Kenora. Simone Desjardins went 5-0 in the senior girls’ singles division to take top spot. The grade nine student—a five-year veteran of the Fort Frances Badminton Club—did not […]
As the Muskie senior badminton team prepares to send its top players to the NorWOSSA final today in Kenora, confidence is riding high on advancing to NWOSSAA. Grade nine student Simone Desjardins, who plays on the senior Muskie squad due to her experience with the local badminton club, stormed through […]
The local curling club said it needs a solid turnout of members at its semi-annual general meeting Wednesday night in order to tie up loose ends—notably the potential impact of a proposed non-smoking bylaw. “We had hoped we would have representatives at the [public meeting] tonight,” club president Bill Gushulak […]
The Canadian Wrestling Fed-eration is coming back to the area. The Ice for Kids Arena here will be the stage this Sunday at 2 p.m. for the same extreme matches and amazing stunts—complete with some new tricks of the trade. This is all to help out the local Chamber of […]
The local curling club said it needs a solid turnout of members at its semi-annual general meeting Wednesday night in order to tie up loose ends—notably the potential impact of a proposed non-smoking bylaw. “We had hoped we would have representatives at the [public meeting] tonight,” club president Bill Gushulak […]
The Sunset Country Ford Atom ‘AA’ Mustangs completed their season with another strong performance—this time against a challenging field at the sixth-annual “Minnesota Meltdown Open” in Minneapolis over the weekend. “It was our first ‘AAA’ competition,” said Mustangs head coach Mark McCaig, whose team finished 2-0-2 in their pool before […]
Despite producing only a small local contingent, the Fort Frances Gymnastics Academy is anticipating a solid day of competition when it hosts its annual ‘Springfest’ meet here on Saturday. “There’s only seven or eight from our club competing,” said meet convener Maureen Hahkala, who added this up-and-down season has seen […]
There was a moment in the best-of-seven SIJHL final last week which captured the Borderland Thunder’s frustration. During the latter stages of Game 3 in Dryden, the Thunder—trailing 4-1 and facing the possibility of an 0-3 series deficit—earned a rare scoring chance against the Ice Dogs but were whistled for […]
