By America’S Test Kitchen The Associated Press This classic New Orleans specialty is built on a roux—a cooked mixture of fat and flour that must be stirred constantly, sometimes for an hour or more, until it is deep brown. To get the same depth of flavour with much less hands-on […]
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Les Baker lined up a shot en route to capturing the gold medal in the billiards event as Fort Frances hosted the District 1A Senior Games on June 5-6.
Team U.S.A. prevailed 8-6 over Team Canada back on Nov. 28 to capture the SIJHL’s annual all-star game for the second-straight year. Fort Frances hosted the game and a skills competition beforehand–that Team Canada won 8-4–this year, which drew almost 500 fans to the Ice For Kids Arena.
Muskie captain Annalise (CC) Hayes was tripped up in her attempt to cut towards Dryden’s goal but it was the black-and-gold who wound up grounding the Eagles by sweeping the best-of-three NorWOSSA final. Fort High went on to finish fourth at the OFSAA ‘A/AA’ championships later in March in Timmins […]
Anthony Andrusco returned the ball with all his might during a doubles match on Sept. 1 in conjunction with the first tennis tournament held in Fort Frances in more than a decade thanks to the new courts here. Unfortunately, singles play scheduled for the following day was cancelled due to […]
The Muskie boys’ curling rink of Chris Silver (skip), Daniel Vandenbrand, Jason Bazylewski, Owen Riches, and Ben Olson defeated Widdifield (North Bay) 6-3 in the gold-medal final to be crowned provincial champs on home ice as Fort Frances hosted the OFSAA boys’ and girls’ curling championships back in March. The […]
Sekina Scheibler and Ellie Petsnick were named the top male and female athletes of the year at the annual Muskie awards banquet held in June.
Former NHL star Theoren Fleury held a workshop entitled “Reflections on Healing and Trauma, a One-Day Conversation with Theo Fleury,” at the Couchiching multi-use facility on Dec. 6. The workshop aimed to help those dealing with traumatic experiences to open up in a safe, community-like atmosphere so they could begin […]
Steven Johnson (11), Aidan DeGagne (14), and Ilka Milne (10) looked to get off to a good start during the Rainy Lake Nordic Ski Club’s inaugural “Rainy Lake Loppet” held in early February at the Rocky Inlet trails east of town. Some 20 skiers, ranging in age from four to […]
Muskie Aiden Wielinga made this par putt during the NWOSSAA championship held Oct. 2 at Kitchen Creek here. Unfortunately, neither he nor teammate Mikel Ward would up qualifying for OFSAA.
Sam Odrowski Jason Kabel got ready to smack a return to Anika Alexander during their semi-final showdown in the annual Boxing Day squash tournament held at the Memorial Sports Centre here. Kabel took the best-of-five match by a 3-2 margin before falling 3-1 to Steve Boileau in the ‘A’ Open […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–The Royal Canadian Mint is creating two commemorative coins to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day. The Liberal cabinet approved the design of the new toonies, one of which will have multiple colours instead of the usual two-toned coin, to commemorate a key turning point in the […]
