Duane Hicks The new “Local Hockey History” exhibit is now ready upstairs at the Fort Frances Museum. Just in time for next week’s Dudley Hewitt Cup, the small exhibit features photographs, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia. It will be up until the end of May.
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Instrumental (Tuesday, April 21) •String Solo, Scale Arpeggio Piece, Guitar—1. Scott Jolicoeur (Honours) •Guitar Solo, Method Courses, Level 1—1. Connor Dent (Honours) •Violin Solo, Method Courses, Level 1—1. Katrina Klug (Honours) •Guitar Solo, Examination Courses, Grade 1—1. Reese Jolicoeur (Honours) •Guitar Solo, Examination Courses, Grade 3—1. Scott Jolicoeur (Honours) •Guitar […]
Staff The reigning champs of the Borderland Women’s Indoor Soccer League will have to take the long way around to get another chance at keeping their crown. Main Street Mayhem, missing leading goal scorer Jaymee Fiset and starting keeper Krista Kellar, among others, had to forfeit its first-round playoff game […]
Cameron Penney Fort High senior band members prepared to depart by bus to Winnipeg to catch a flight to Whistler, B.C. yesterday morning. The group will perform at the “Con Brio Whistler Music Festival” and stay at the “Whistler Village,” which orginally was constructed for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
Staff The last time the Toronto Patriots met the Fort Frances Lakers, it was like the schoolyard bully taking his classmate’s lunch money, giving him a wedgie, and then walking away asking what they’re going to do about it. Five days from now, the Lakers will get to stare the […]
Heather Latter Zeila Dal, left, Mark Fitzgerald, Natalia Saciuk, and Maxten Hanson—from Lisa Cousineau’s Early Years class at St. Michael’s School—showed off some of their “Earth Day” creations yesterday, including a painting of the Earth and decorated grocery bags. Several of the classes there were decorating brown paper bags that […]
Staff It’s not quite time to stop running those taps. While the weather has been better than it was at this time last year, Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown says it’s still a bit early for town residents who had frozen service lines last winter to stop “bleeding” their […]
Staff At this rate, the Border Skating Club just might have to clear room on its calendar to be a regular stop on the “Stars on Ice” tour. The local club is bringing 1988 Olympic silver-medalist Elizabeth Manley to Fort Frances this fall for an instructional seminar. A decision to […]
Joey Payeur There will be tall trees blooming outdoors in Big Grassy First Nation by the end of next month—and one tall individual with a historic hoops background trying to cultivate young and old basketball minds indoors. Pegimagaabo School will host a two-day basketball ball camp being put on by […]
Heather Latter See a need, fill a need. That was Bigweld’s slogan in the 2005 movie “Robots,” and it is a quote that always has stayed with Pam Johnson. That’s why she and her sister, Sandra Wayash-Calder, decided to open “Odawayigamig” at 271 Scott St.—a store that will feature and […]
Duane Hicks The Fort Frances Public Library Board is over the moon about recent generous donations, which will increase its technological and educational capacity. It has received $300,000 from the estate of Jack Gagne and $35,000 from the estate of Dino D’Agostini. “We are thrilled to receive the donations and […]
Duane Hicks The Boundary Waters Dragon Boat Club is seeking dedicated paddlers for an official team to go on the road and compete. Six volunteers will be going to Pickering, Ont. on the first weekend in May to train with Alkame Dragon Boat Services at the P3 Paddle Centre. Two […]
