Dave Ogilvie The Emo-La Vallee-Chapple Healthy Communities Coalition invites you to come out and celebrate Family Day. Events will take place Monday, Feb. 20 from noon-4 p.m. at the Emo-La Vallee Community Centre. A family skate will take place from noon-2 p.m., followed by shinny hockey from 2-4 p.m. (helmets […]
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the OPP A Community Satisfaction Survey currently is underway in the northwest to solicit public opinions about the services the OPP detachments deliver to communities throughout the region. This is a telephone survey that randomly selects members of the public (age 16 and older) who live in Ontario. The survey […]
Robin McCormick The Emo-La Vallee-Chapple Healthy Communities Coalition is hosting its annual Family Day event this coming Monday (Feb. 20) from noon-4 p.m. at the Emo-La Vallee Community Centre. A family skate is planned from noon-2 p.m., followed by shinny hockey from 2-4 p.m. (helmet and gloves mandatory). As well, […]
Duane Hicks Sewer and water rates will be going up again this year after town council approved an increase at its regular meeting Monday night. After going through several scenarios at a meeting last Wednesday, the Operations and Facilities executive committee recommended the following, to which council agreed: •a one-percent […]
the NHU Feb. 12-19 is National Sexual and Reproductive Health Week and the Northwestern Health Unit is using it to promote testing for sexually-transmitted infections (STIs). “Chlamydia and gonorrhea are the two most common reportable STIs in our region,” said Gillian Lunny, manager of the sexual health program. “Our rates […]
Press Release In November, Northern Community Development Services here was very fortunate to become the recipient of a community dragon boat through the Dragon Boat Development Program. After submitting an application to Dragon Boat Canada, NCDS was chosen to receive one of the six boats available across Canada. Dragon boat […]
Lucas Punkari One game. That’s all that stands between the Muskie boys’ basketball teams and NorWOSSA gold. Both squads earned byes to their respective finals today at Fort High thanks to first-place finishes during the regular season, with both awaiting the winners of this morning’s semi-final clashes between the Kenora […]
Staff It’s an historic edition of the annual Wesley Derksen LL.B. squash tournament for the Sunset Country Squash Club this weekend as this year marks the 25th anniversary of the event. “From everyone that I’ve been talking to, they have all been saying how time is just flying by,” said […]
Staff A number of local hockey teams made their presence felt in out-of-town tournaments over the last couple of weeks. The Fort Frances Leafs Bantam girls’ competive team beat the Stonewall Blues 4-1 to nab the silver medal at a girls’ 14U tournament in Crookston, Mn. this past weekend. Jessica […]
the MNR Three Dryden residents have been fined a total of $4,200 for illegal moose hunting. Edward Smith was fined $2,600 for shooting a moose from a road and being in possession of illegally-killed wildlife. He is banned from hunting in Ontario for two years, and the moose was forfeited […]
Lucas Punkari With an afternoon showdown today against the Red Lake Rams, then a trip there this Friday night, coming on the heels of a game here last night against the Dryden Eagles, the Muskie girls’ hockey team is coming to the end of the NorWOSSA regular season. But that […]
Staff The most feared team in any Jr. Gold hockey tournament in Minnesota of late has to be the Fort Frances Canadians Midget ‘AA’ squad. After suffering a pair of round-robin losses at a tournament in Wayzata last month, the Canadians have rattled off 16-straight wins en route to three-straight […]
