Lucas Punkari Fort Frances native Brandon Bodnar stretched out to make a kick save Sunday morning during the final scrimmage of the Fort Frances Lakers’ annual prospects’ camp at the new Couchiching arena.
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Lucas Punkari TSN is coming to Fort Frances. The Fort Frances Curling Club’s bid was announced as the 10th and final winner of this year’s “Kraft Celebration Tour” late yesterday afternoon during TSN’s SportsCentre—defeating a bid from Dryden’s track-and-field facility in last week’s 24-hour online voting showdown. “I’m still kind […]
Sarah Pruys A few dozen people gathered at Boston Pizza late yesterday afternoon, anxiously awaiting the announcement on SportsCentre on whether the Fort Frances Curling Club had beat out Dryden in the annual “Kraft Celebration Tour,” erupted into cheers when their voting efforts were rewarded.
Sarah Pruys Four-year-old Khloe Morrison worked away at making bannock yesterday morning at the United Native Friendship Centre’s “Circle of Life” building, along with a small group of other children participating in St. Michael’s school-aged program this summer. The children also were having Storytime, and making masks and dream catchers […]
the MNR Kenora District confirmed the only new fire in the region yesterday, which is Kenora Fire #38. This is a 0.1-hectare, lightning-caused fire that will be handled quickly by FireRangers. The final count for July 21 was nine new fires—five lightning-caused and four human-caused. No problems were encountered with […]
Staff Fresh off their prospects’ camp over the weekend at Couchiching, the Fort Frances Lakers announced yesterday they have re-signed two of their forwards and added a new face to the blueline for the upcoming season. Fort Frances native Hunter Leishman and Mason Meyer of International Falls both will be […]
Staff Two local projects—the subdivision development at the former Huffman School site and reconstruction of Second Street East between Mowat and Central—are moving along well, Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown reported at last night’s council meeting. “Over the last two weeks, most of the work has been done on […]
Lucas Punkari The Fort Frances Curling Club was a beehive of activity around 10 p.m. on Friday as club members and others from the community cast votes for its bid in the “Kraft Celebration Tour” showdown against Dryden.
Lucas Punkari Faye Flatt watched her drive off the 10th tee sail into the distance Saturday afternoon as she took part in a ladies’ scramble at Kitchen Creek. Flatt, a member of the local team that captured the Robinson Cup versus International Falls there last Wednesday, was joined in her […]
Lucas Punkari Whitney VanHorne looked for a teammate to pass the puck to Saturday morning during a Fort Frances Lakers’ prospect camp scrimmage at the new Couchiching arena. Some 34 players took part in the three-day camp as they battled for an invitation to the Lakers’ main training camp next […]
Lucas Punkari After a long couple of days of waiting, supporters of the Fort Frances Curling Club’s bid in the annual “Kraft Celebration Tour” will find out late this afternoon if their efforts against Dryden were successful. The results of the online voting showdown—the 10th and final one of the […]
It will be clear tonight, with an overnight low of eight C (46 F). Look for northwest winds at five-10 m.p.h. Tomorrow will be partly sunny, with a chance of thunderstorms at night. Expect a high of 22 (72) and low around 10 (50), along with continued northwest winds at […]
