Staff Alina Eldridge was the top skater for the Border Skating Club at the Sunset Country regionals in Kenora over the weekend, nabbing three first-place finishes. Eldridge was tops in the Preliminary Elements Flight ‘B’ event on Friday, the Preliminary/Pre-Preliminary Skills competition on Saturday, and the Preliminary Flight ‘A’ event […]
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Lucas Punkari The situation is simple. If there are not enough volunteers willing to help out with Fort Frances Youth Soccer this year, and if an interest to fill positions on the board of directors isn’t shown at the annual general meeting next Tuesday (Feb. 7), there won’t be a […]
Lucas Punkari A few days after being crowned provincial champ, and qualifying for this year’s Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Red Deer, Alta., the sense of what she had accomplished was just starting to hit former Muskie curler Jenna Enge. “It’s starting to sink in a little bit,” noted the […]
Heather Latter Municipal leaders banded together Saturday to oppose a plan which would result in the relocation of the resident judge for Rainy River District to a base in Kenora or Dryden. Local lawyer Wes Derksen, representing the Rainy River Law Association (RRLA), also was on hand at the Rainy […]
Lucas Punkari For Stratton’s Trevor Bonot and Devlin’s Mike Badiuk, the goals are simple as they head into the Northern Ontario men’s curling playdowns starting Sunday in Sault Ste. Marie. Playoffs or bust. “If we have a good week, I think we have a good chance of making it to […]
Lucas Punkari Fort Frances native Jonathan Glueheisen took matters into his own hands when he saw that no one else was taking the initiative to submit a bid in this year’s Kraft “Hockeyville” contest. Glueheisen, who works at Fort Frances General Supply, put a bid onto the “Hockeyville” website ahead […]
Heather Latter It was a miserably cold December morning when Gar Faragher awoke and noticed a hump of snow on the glare ice of the pond outside his home east of Fort Frances. “Was that muskrat house always there?” his partner, Judy Tucker, recalled him asking. It wasn’t until a […]
Heather Latter Given the shortage of doctors across the district, including in Rainy River where the lone full-time physician, Dr. Dave Singleton, plans to resign in June, 2013, the future of the Rainy River Health Centre’s emergency room remains uncertain. Should it close, land ambulance costs will increase in an […]
Duane Hicks MTO jobs to be cut Come this summer, international company Transfield Services will be responsible for provincial highway maintenance in the Rainy River and Kenora districts, which will result in job cuts to Ministry of Transportation staff but also possibly create opportunities for contractors, suppliers, and those seeking […]
Lucas Punkari Even though the Fort Frances Lakers are comfortably lodged in second place, the quest of being a consistent hockey team heading into the final month of the regular season has proven to be an issue of late. After a seven-game winning streak came to an end Jan. 14 […]
Lucas Punkari Having jumped into the lead early Saturday morning, local bowler Jeff Watts could not be caught for the rest of the weekend. Watts garnered a total pinfall of 5,394 in the two-day, 20-game Sunset Country ‘A’ Open, hosted this year by Plaza Lanes here, en route to first […]
Lucas Punkari Earning a bye straight to the final was one of the keys for the Norwest Stars of Thunder Bay on Sunday afternoon at the Ice For Kids Arena as they cruised to a convincing 5-1 win over the Baudette Bears in the final of the annual local Atom […]
