Joey Payeur More female minor hockey players will be able to take their game to the next level this season. The Fort Frances Girls’/Women’s Hockey Association recently announced it has enough coaches and players on board to run ‘AA’ competitive squads at three different age levels. Last season, the Fort […]
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Joey Payeur James Pavier woke up last Thursday knowing he would have a key role to play that evening in the biggest game of the local men’s soccer season. He never guessed it would involve putting the ball into the net rather than keeping it out. Pavier went from stopper […]
Joey Payeur Take away the league’s most valuable player and top keeper from most teams and they likely would crumble like a week-old cookie. But the La Place Rendez-Vous U18 Voyageurs, as they have all year, proved once again last Thursday that they aren’t like most other teams. A four-goal […]
Lindsay Campbell Caitlin Anderson achieved a lot more at this year’s Emo Fair queen competition than she expected. The 15-year-old, who was crowned the 2015 winner last Thursday, said she never dreamed of capturing the crown. She added her reason for entering the summer-long event purely was for the experience. […]
Joey Payeur For several years, Kristina Bombay has lived with the agonizing memory of two similar tragedies just three days apart. One took away someone close to her; the other claimed the man who was trying to make sense of the first situation that took away someone he had guided […]
Heather Latter Alyssa Chiasson has a lot to be proud of. While she didn’t bring home the Miss Teenage Canada crown from Toronto earlier this month, she did a superb job representing Rainy River District—finishing in the top 10 out of 82 contestants from across the country. “It was a […]
Lindsay Campbell Carlito and Thelma Gicale, owners/managers of the CanAsian Restaurant in Emo, have closed those doors to focus on a larger project here in Fort Frances. Formerly known as Lee Garden, the Gicales opened the “CanAsian Family Restaurant” at 418 Scott St. on Monday. “We wanted to serve a […]
Heather Latter Lowey’s Greenhouse and the Fort Frances Canadians Midget ‘AA’ hockey program have joined together to provide the community with a new way to purchase vegetables. Hockey mom Melissa Gushulak noted the idea was mentioned during the hockey season. “Donna [Lowey] has always been wanting to do as many […]
Lindsay Campbell The International Joint Commission, along with the International Rainy-Lake of the Woods Watershed Board, held its annual public meeting here last Tuesday to discuss water level initiatives. Held at La Place Rendez-Vous, the meeting was an opportunity to report on last year’s high water levels here but also […]
Duane Hicks Riverfront property next to the Riverwalk Condominiums is the preferred site for a for-profit assisted living complex being proposed here. Cherish Community Living Ltd., the company hired to design and run the complex, is hoping it can obtain the town-owned property located just to the east of the […]
Staff A Devlin-based manufacturer whose employees recently decided to unionize has closed its doors due to the owner’s religious beliefs. In a statement from Gingrich Woodcraft Inc., owner Leon Gingrich said that on Aug. 12, the majority of workers decided to join Unifor—and that’s a decision which goes against his […]
Joey Payeur The evening was one for plenty of smiles, a few misty eyes, and a stockpile of some of the greatest athletes to ever call Fort Frances home. About 200 people packed the upstairs ballroom at La Place Rendez-Vous on Saturday night to witness the first-annual induction ceremony for […]
