the OPP As part of Bullying Prevention and Awareness Week, the OPP continues to offer school-based lessons to students across the district with financial support of Tim Hortons’ “Smile Cookies” fundraising campaign. As part of our ongoing efforts to increase awareness of responsible digital citizenship, OPP Community Services Officer Anne […]
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Staff The second-annual “Festival of Frost” here next Saturday (Nov. 29) is shaping up to be very cool indeed, including a parade based on the hit movie, “Frozen.” But the 57th-annual “Parade of Lights” will be a lot more magical if more groups and businesses would enter floats. “We have […]
Staff The best team in the SIJHL had the league’s best player this past week. Fort Frances Lakers’ forward Bryson Jasper was named the Amyotte’s Awards & Promotions player-of-the-week after garnering four points in two games. The 20-year-old from Rainy River had a goal in the Lakers’ 5-4 overtime win […]
Staff With their closest pursuers unable to play, the One Hit Wonders are turning the race for first place in the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League into a runaway. Earning the maximum six points for the third time in the past four weeks, the squad now has 51 total points—giving […]
Duane Hicks The “Queen of Frost” (Judy Kielczewski), along with a menagerie of fairies, elves, and other characters, will be making appearances at the “’Twas the Lights Before Christmas” parade in International Falls on Nov. 28, the “Parade of Lights” here on Nov. 29, and “Icebox Days” in January in […]
Staff The Muskie boys’ hockey team and the Kenora Broncos clashed in last season’s NorWOSSA final. On Tuesday night, only one of them looked to be a serious finalist possibility for this season. Graeme Kitt and Jarred Taylor each netted a pair of goals, and Dylan Ossachuk earned the shutout, […]
Duane Hicks Garrett Brown knitted away yesterday during the weekly meeting of the Fireside Yarn Club at the Fort Frances Public Library. The club, which has resumed for the winter, meets every Wednesday at 6 p.m. It is open to beginners and experts alike—just bring your own supplies.
Duane Hicks Chandler Cousineau, front left, played Jonah Brow in the fantasy-based collectible card game, “Magic: The Gathering,” during a tournament yesterday evening at the Fort Frances Public Library, joining fellow gamers Mitchell Riordon, Jada Eide, Everette Bannon, and Gavin Richardson. The library has started up a “Public Library Players […]
Staff There’s no more room for error. The Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team opened the OFSAA ‘AA’ championships with a 2-0 loss (25-18/25-16) to Ecole secondaire catholique Franco-Cité Falcons (Ottawa) in their best-of-three match in Pool ‘B’ action this morning in Dryden. “It took a while for the boys to […]
Joey Payeur A title in the hand was worth three from the Busch. Jon Busch collected a hat trick to pace the Fort Frances Bantam ‘AA’ Canadians to a 4-2 win over the Norwest Stars (Thunder Bay) in the championship game of the Canadians’ annual home tournament on Sunday at […]
Joey Payeur No doubt about it—the Muskie girls hockey team prefers Canadian Warriors over the American variety. Annalise Hayes kicked off her NorWOSSA career in grand style with six goals and seven points to pace the Muskies to a 13-1 demolition of the Queen Elizabeth Warriors in the two teams’ […]
Joey Payeur It wasn’t anything an opposing coach really wants to see. But Dan Bird also knew it was a golden opportunity for his team—one on which, as it turned out, they could not capitalize. The Hammarskjold Vikings overcame the loss of their top player, centre Aliisa Heiskanen, early in […]
