Heather Latter Presley Vader played “doctor” and gave this doll an “exam” yesterday as youngsters from the Zaagi-idiwin Aboriginal Headstart Program visited the Family Support program at the Circle of Life Centre here for a fun play day. Children got to play with snow and coloured water in an indoor […]

Heather Latter Grade 1 student Ashton Veldhuisen of St. Michael’s School celebrated the 100th day of class yesterday by donning spiffy “100th day” glasses and taking part in a variety of classroom activities based around the number “100.”

Heather Latter Jeremy Hughes, the library’s computer program trainer, showed stroke clinic nurse Marilyn Erwin how to use the Scanning and Reading Appliance (SARA) machine last Thursday during a “Stroke Stories” Internet training session presented by the local Stroke Prevention Clinic at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre. The […]

Lucas Punkari Fort Frances Lakers’ forward Jordan Christianson reacted after he was brought down by Riley Daly of the Minnesota Iron Rangers in front of goalie Chase Hollander during the visitors’ 3-1 win Saturday night at the Ice For Kids Arena.

Heather Latter Grade 5 students from Jean Bujold’s class at St. Francis School took part in a Zumba fitness session at Energy Fitness here yesterday as part of their physical education component. It was the first of five sessions for the students.

Heather Latter Three-year-old Max Hanson, second from right, joined in playing at the water centre with kindergarten students at St. Michael’s School yesterday as he toured the facility with his parents prior to registering for school this fall. St. Michael’s is holding an open house Thursday from 9:15-10:15 a.m. for […]

Staff The situation is simple for Fort Frances native Tirzah Keffer and the rest of her Northern Ontario rink at the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Curling Championships in Fort McMurray, Alta. today. If the foursome from the Port Arthur Curling Club hopes to advance to the championship pool, they’ll […]

Staff Students participating in the “Leaders of Hallway Pride” team, as part of the “Leader In Me” program at Crossroads School in Devlin, will receive the Rainy River District School Board’s monthly Recognition of Excellence at its regular meeting tonight. The “Leaders of Hallway Pride” team is one of the […]

Lucas Punkari Tyler Fontana controlled the puck here Friday night as the Muskie boys’ hockey team cruised to a 15-0 drubbing of the Red Lake Rams. Fontana had two goals and two assists while teammate Tyler Mosbeck led the way offensively with four goals and two assists. Next up for […]

the OPP Shortly after 11 p.m. on Saturday, the Rainy River District OPP responded to a complaint of a possible impaired driver on the 800 block of King’s Highway in Fort Frances. Officers located the vehicle in question and conducted an investigation as a result of the complaint made by […]

Lucas Punkari Warroad’s Hannah Christian skated into the offensive zone as Madison Botsford of M&M’s Skates & Blades battled for the puck yesterday afternoon during Warroad’s 6-2 win in the Bantam consolation final of the FFGWHA’s Bantam and Midget tournament here this weekend. Energy Fitness Wild prevailed in their home […]

Staff Former Muskie skip Tirzah Keffer, who now attends school in Thunder Bay, earned her first win at the 2013 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Curling Championships yesterday in Fort McMurray, Alta. Keffer and the rest of her Northern Ontario foursome, which also includes third Sheree Hinz, second Megan Westlund, […]