Joey Payeur When the competitors weren’t being blown around by the ferocious winds, they were blowing away fans with some high-quality play at the annual Kingsley Downs and Gus Lindberg Memorial Slo-Pitch Tournament over the weekend at the newly-renovated Devlin Ball Park. FUBAR ended up capturing the title with a […]
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Heather Latter Julie Strom and Allison Miller, who make up the percussion duo “junKtion,” put on a workshop Saturday as part of the “Harmony of Nations” Music Festival here. It was one of many held during the day Friday and Saturday at the Fort Frances Public Library, with people learning […]
Staff An Alberton Township man was killed early yesterday in a single-vehicle crash on Highway 613 South near Hughes Road, the OPP reported this morning. Tyson Romyn, 26, died after the pickup truck he was driving entered the ditch around 2:55 a.m., causing the vehicle to roll and ejecting him, […]
Lindsay Campbell Nicholas Delbaere-Sawchuk, left, of the Métis Fiddler Quartet, accompanied “Harmony of Nations” headliner Ashley MacIsaac during an energetic set of traditional fiddle tunes Saturday night. The second-annual music festival, which ran Friday and Saturday under the big tent at the Sorting Gap Marina, featured a wide variety of […]
the MNRF There were no new fires in the Northwest Region by yesterday afternoon and no new fires on Saturday. Recent rain has helped ease the fire situation in many parts of the region, and several blaze have been called “out” in the past few days. However, there still are […]
Staff Everything is all set for this year’s mini-king and mini-queen contest. All that’s needed is more boys to participate. “I’ve got six girls and one boy signed up,” organizer Melissa Gushulak noted this morning. “We need at least two boys for it to run,” she said. The contest, scheduled […]
the MNRF One new fire was reported by mid-afternoon yesterday in the Northwest Region. Nipigon Fire #51 is not yet under control at 0.5 hectares in size. There currently are 68 active fires in the region, 51 of which are listed as “being observed.” Eleven fires are “under control,” three […]
Submitted The Memorial Sports Centre’s Rec’ N Crew’s “Cruiseship Campers” Nathan Spuzak, left, Walker Bernard, and Paul Beninger stopped for a photo between scoping out nature yesterday morning on a boat tour provided by Voyageurs National Park east of International Falls. The tour ran from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., during which […]
Joey Payeur Ahmadou Idrissou (background) rose to the occasion time and again yesterday evening—scoring all four goals for Manitou Forest Products in a 4-0 victory over Pharmasave in Borderland Soccer League men’s division action.
Staff Four scores and 90 minutes ago, Pharmasave had a plan to try and contain Ahmadou Idrissou. Keeping some of the evening’s earlier lightning in a bottle may have been easier to achieve. Idrissou went past, over, around, and through Pharmasave’s defence to notch all his team’s goals in a […]
Lindsay Campbell Joanne Bruyere, centre, instructor of the “Traditional Craft” workshop, offered some helpful tips to Isiah Bruyere and his daughter, Mackenna, as they made their own dreamcatchers this morning at the Fort Frances Public Library. The workshop was the first of many taking place today and tomorrow as part […]
Duane Hicks Chief Building Official Travis Rob outlined a preliminary plan for the demolition of the vacant Rainy Lake Hotel during a meeting yesterday at the Civic Centre. The town intends to tender the project soon, with the aim to demolish the building this fall, develop plans for a market […]
