Sam Odrowski The Rainy Lake Nordic Ski Club now will be able to better maintain and groom its trails at Rocky Inlet since receiving a sizeable grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. A group of club members held a breakfast at the trails Thursday morning to celebrate the announcement. The […]
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Staff The Sunset Country Métis is offering the Canadian Firearms Safety Course and the Ontario Hunter Education Program free of charge to its citizens, with a special focus on youths aged 12 and up. Instructor Peter Van Drunen will teach the Canadian Firearm Safety Course on March 28-30 at the […]
Jamie Mountain It was a tough outing for the Confederation College Thunderhawks’ men’s curling rink at the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association national curling championships that were held Friday through yesterday in Fredericton, N.B. The rink, which includes former Muskies Kurtwood McGuire (skip) and Jason Bazylewski (second), went 0-7 to finish […]
Staff A group of Treaty #3 First Nations’ girls came together to form a PeeWee Warriors hockey team that recently competed at the Little Native Hockey League held March 11-14 in Mississauga. Nine of the girls were from Treaty #3 territory (Couchiching, Nigigoonsiminikaaning, Big Grassy, Dalles, Rainy River First Nations, […]
Jamie Mountain It’s probably starting to feel a little like déjà vu for the Fort Frances Lakers when it comes to the SIJHL playoffs. Each year, the squad’s road seemingly leads them to the Dryden GM Ice Dogs–and that’s the case once again as the Lakers will square off against […]
Staff The Fort Frances PeeWee ‘AA’ Canadians went 5-1 en route to claiming the HNO Branch championship title for a third-straight year. Held March 8-10, the Canadians opened tourney play on the Friday morning with a narrow 2-1 shootout loss to the KC Sabres. After a scoreless first period, Dakota […]
Defenceman Nate Drobnick was presented with the Bev Kotnik Community Involvement Award by Lakers’ president Milt Strachan. The award, which is a tribute to the much-loved member of the Lakers’ board of directors who succumbed to cancer back in 2016, is presented to a player each season for their contributions […]
Submitted Confetti and a light show were part of the celebration after Ott DeFoe was declared champion of the Bassmaster Classic.
Forward Nick Hahkala took home the most improved player award at the Fort Frances Lakers’ annual awards banquet held Saturday afternoon at La Place Rendez-Vous. In his first season with the squad, Hahkala tallied six goals and five assists in 51 games.
Brett Hahkala of the Fort Frances Lakers and Red Lake Miners’ defenceman Matt Krawiec looked to knock down a bouncing puck during the third period of the visitors’ 5-3 win Saturday night in the SIJHL regular-season finale for both teams at the Ice For Kids Arena. Hahkala scored once and […]
Jamie Mountain Fort Frances Lakers’ goalie Jacob Gnidziejko looked to get his body fully in front of the puck while teammate Nate Drobnick tried to prevent Dryden GM Ice Dogs’ forward Jacob Siebenga from getting to the rebound during the second period of the hosts’ 6-5 shootout win Friday night […]
Jamie Mountain Cordell Boyko of the Dryden GM Ice Dogs lunged to check Jaedin Ness of the Fort Frances Lakers off the puck during the third period of the hosts’ 6-5 shootout win here Friday night. Ness forced overtime in that one after notching the equalizer in the third period.
