Sharon Morden (Atikokan) won the $500 up for grabs on Easter Sunday in the Rainy River District Mutual Aid Association’s weekly cash calendar draw. Winning $30 for April 5-11 were Scott Morgan (Kakabeka Falls), Sam O’Flaherty (Atikokan), David and Stacey Dykun (Gilbert Plains, Man.), Daniels Mills (Thunder Bay), Allan McLean […]
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Staff Maybe it was good karma coming home to roost for the Muskie track-and-field team. Fort High bettered its season-opening medal count by four with a total of 13 top-three finishes at the Border State Bank Invitational meet in Baudette on Tuesday. The Muskies not only excelled in competition but […]
Duane Hicks Jennifer Greenhalgh, president of the Boundary Waters Dragon Boat Foundation, held aloft the group’s new mascot’s head as secretary-treasurer Annely Amrstrong-Thorstad, all the way down the hall, held up its tail yesterday at the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce office.
Duane Hicks How do you train a dragon? Just ask the Boundary Waters Dragon Boat Club. The group recently received a mascot to match its namesake—a 10-metre long, fiery orange, red, gold, and purple “dragon” made of fabric and other materials. Having ordered it special from Beijing, China a while […]
Staff Down by one game in the series, one goal in the third period, and one man on the ice, it would have been really easy for the Fort Frances Lakers to pack it in. Instead, they decided to make it a night to remember. Nolan Ross scored short-handed, then […]
Joey Payeur One skate up and one skate down, that is the way to London Town. The classic nursery rhyme, with some hockey-themed paraphrasing, applies to former Muskie Cole Tymkin after he was selected in the fifth round (91st overall) by the London Knights in Saturday’s OHL draft. Tymkin spent […]
Joey Payeur Brian Church has seen this movie before and anticipates another feel-good ending. The coach of the Muskie badminton team watched Grade 9 rookie Aaron Bujold mow down his older, more experienced opponents to finish in first place with a 5-0 record in senior boys’ singles play at the […]
Staff Ottawa Senators’ goalie Andrew Hammond is the talk of the netminding world right now. But Jenny Hammond is doing a great job creating some buzz herself. The captain of the Muskie track-and-field team seemingly has embraced her new role wholeheartedly, leading the black-and-gold with three individual medals (and four […]
Duane Hicks Matt Soprovich is among the 20 university graduates to be featured in Maclean’s 20th University Guide, which came out this month. Maclean’s highlighted two decades’ worth of grads interviewed in the past, including Soprovich, to check up on them and see what they’re up to now. Soprovich, who […]
Duane Hicks A handful of trees in town soon will have small signs posted to them. Town council on Monday night unanimously approved a request from the Rainy River District Stewardship to label trees as part of a cultural heritage project it is working on. Project lead Tony Elders explained […]
Duane Hicks OPP Sgt. Marty Singleton is raising funds and taking donations in the hopes of getting 1,000 life preservers to help halt drownings in the region’s First Nation communities. Sgt. Singleton has undertaken the campaign in honour of the late Clayton (Beef) Windigo Jr. and OPP Cst. Bob Mainville, […]
Duane Hicks Organizers of the Harmony of Nations Music Festival are asking for a few favours from the town to help stage the second-annual event here July 17-18. The Rainy River Future Development Corp. is asking the town to: •designate the “Harmony of Nations Music Festival” as a significant community […]
