Heather Latter Grade 12 student Taylor Shouldice, right, who had a co-op placement in the music room at Fort High, explained to fellow student Maria Ball about her display called “The Instrument You Were Born With.” Students who participated in co-op placements this semester lined the atrium yesterday with their […]
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Heather Latter Glenn Craig, president and CEO of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation, presented members of Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. with a grant for $12,200 from the Northern Cancer Fund yesterday at La Verendrye Hospital. The funds will be used to purchase new equipment for chemotherapy, including […]
Duane Hicks With the “Festival of Frost” just over a week away, plans for the Nov. 30 event continue to get bigger and better. Robin Payeur of Causeway Insurance said that at last count, 13 floats were registered for the “stationary” parade, with still more people thinking it over—a little […]
Joey Payeur Cole Tymkin may be the youngest player on the Muskie boys’ hockey team but he certainly hasn’t played like it so far. The lone Grade 9 donning the black-and-gold this season looked like a seasoned veteran Tuesday night, scoring the game-winner as part of a natural hat trick […]
Press Release Starting Monday (Nov. 25), the Northwestern Health Unit will be conducting a telephone survey with its partners. The survey follows a similar study done with a random sample of area residents earlier this year. The survey will be conducted by Oraclepoll Research, an independent firm based out of […]
Staff The “Knox Renewal” fundraising team has crept closer to its goal of cracking the top 10 in the Aviva Community Fund national competition. Team member Bill Gushulak said that as of this morning, their bid for funding to build an elevator at Knox United here has climbed to 13th […]
Joey Payeur Tanner Fricke decided this was no time for a losing streak and figured ending someone else’s winning run suited him just fine. Fricke scored twice in regulation time, then netted the winning goal in the fourth round of the shootout, to lift the Fort Frances Lakers to a […]
Joey Payeur A sharpened supply of Sabres used a third-period surge to slice the Muskie boys’ hockey team’s thoughts of a tournament title to shreds. Fort High led 3-2 after two periods but gave up three unanswered goals in the third to fall 5-3 to the Steinbach Sabres in the […]
Joey Payeur Skai McLean unleashed the bullet, then celebrated Teemu Selanne-style by machine-gunning the air with his hockey stick. He might as well have been shooting down the medal hopes of the Fort Frances Bantam ‘AA’ Canadians. McLean’s rocket blast off the post and into the net 1:25 into the […]
Joey Payeur The Fort Frances Lakers are on such a roll, they didn’t even have to play last week to gain even more national prominence. The squad’s 10-day break from SIJHL play didn’t prevent them from moving up one spot for the fourth-consecutive week to reach No. 2 in the […]
Duane Hicks Perseverance and patience are starting to pay off for Alex Marusyk, who has unleashed his creativity in song over the past four years while keeping his feet on the ground. The 23-year-old singer-songwriter is making a name for himself on the Vancouver music scene, but always has been […]
Heather Latter An after-school math and reading academic enrichment program has landed a new home. Previously located at the Kenora-Rainy River Child and Family Services building here, Kumon has moved into the Church of the Holy Spirit on Victoria Avenue. Though still operated through Kenora-Rainy River Child and Family Services, […]
