Staff The Muskie girls’ hockey team just put this season’s opponents on notice. The champs are back—and possibly better than before. Annalise Hayes netted a hat trick, and Calie Clendenning posted the shutout, as the Muskies blanked the Kelvin Clippers 6-0 yesterday in Winnipeg to capture the Sturgeon Heights Huskies’ […]
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File Kathy Kaemingh was among those who gave blood during the Canadian Blood Services’ donor clinic held here back in August. CBS is back again with another clinic being held at Fort High today from 4:30-8:30 p.m. and again tomorrow from noon-3 p.m. and 5-8 p.m. Book an appointment online […]
Staff Local resident Terry Parks will speak to town council tomorrow night about fencing issues. He has several concerns regarding a neighbour’s fence, and feels it has not been constructed in accordance with the town’s fencing bylaw. Council will hear Parks’ concerns. Tomorrow’s meeting, which is being held a day […]
The Associated Press TAMPA, Fla.—Anthony Barr stripped the ball, scooped it up, and took off for the end zone. “I’m thinking win, score, get out of here,” the young Minnesota linebacker said yesterday after his 27-yard fumble return on the first scrimmage play of overtime enabled the Vikings to stop […]
Heather Latter Ziigwan Smith, a Grade 1 student at St. Michael’s School, showed off the school bus safety poster he created there yesterday. Since this is National School Bus Safety Week, the Rainy River District Transportation Services Consortium is hosting a poster contest with the theme “The Bus is a […]
Heather Latter Jo-ann Waytowich (“Ivanka”) from Thunder Bay posed with bra models from last night’s “Bras for a Cause” event hosted by the Rainy River District Breast Health Network. Following a comedic routine by “Ivanka,” the seven models strutted down the runway and onto the stage to show off the […]
Staff The road to a repeat crown begins tomorrow for Jess Caul. Fort High’s female athlete-of-the-year in 2013 is about to embark on another post-season journey with the Providence University College Pilots, based in Otterburne, Man., that she hopes will end as well—or even better—than last year. The second-year Pilot […]
Duane Hicks The Civic Centre will be a busy place on Monday as the municipal election wraps up. As of the end of Wednesday, the town had received 2,240 ballots, or about 41 percent of the total eligible. If ballot returns continue as they are, it’s possible they’ll eclipse the […]
Press Release Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. has launched its 2014-15 staff influenza shot campaign. Staff will have access to the ’flu shot at all sites at selected times from Oct. 20-Nov. 13. Riverside intends to at least match its staff’s noteworthy performance from the previous year. Dr. Robin Williams, […]
Staff One Hit Wonders and Kiss My Pass are operating in very close quarters right now. The two squads each earned the maximum six points possible last Thursday to remain tied atop the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League with 28 points apiece. Their stellar play also means the gap between […]
Duane Hicks Curator Sherry George showed St. Michael’s Grade 2/3 students some of the equipment carried by Canadian soldiers during a tour of the Fort Frances Museum yesterday. The students got a close look at “We Remember Them,” the exhibit which marks the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI […]
Tracey Cobiness (Kenora) won the $50 up for grabs in the local Alzheimer Society’s cash calendar draw for October. The $40 winners included Joan Hanson and Dianne Drake (Fort Frances), Laurie Desserre (Dryden), Pauline Cronley (Ear Falls), and John Bergen, Curt and Caren Leutschaft, and Karl Lang (Vermilion Bay). Winning […]
