Peggy Revell Fort Frances’ Citizen of the Year Nick Wihnan pulled the winning name for the Kiwanis trip-of-the-month draw for December yesterday as club member Robin Wright looked on. Allyson Kyle of Portland, Ore. won a trip to Belize worth $5,000. Tickets now are on sale for the 2012 draws, […]
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Heather Latter Leading Seaman Larissa McKelvie, of the Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps Fort Frances, offered up gift-wrapping along with fellow Leading Seaman Chelsea Barron during The Bargain Shop’s “Moonlight Madness” event last night. The pair are fundraising to travel overseas next spring—Barron to Belgium and France and McKelvie to […]
Duane Hicks Cathryn Moffett, aboriginal and public relations engagement specialist at Golder Associates, the environmental consultant hired by Osisko Hammond Reef Gold Ltd., gave an update on how the project near Atikokan is progressing yesterday during the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s general membership meeting at La Place Rendez-Vous. As […]
Staff After a trio of exhibition games against the West End Bruins (Thunder Bay) two weekends ago, the Fort Frances Midget ‘AA’ Canadians are set to host the fifth-annual Gus Lindberg Memorial tournament this weekend. “There are going to be some good, tough hockey teams that will be coming here […]
Staff The local Salvation Army kicked off its annual Christmas kettle campaign yesterday at Walmart here, but many more volunteers are needed to ring those bells up to Dec. 24. Capts. Angel and Marlene Sandoval are asking the public to volunteer an hour or more of their time. Those interested […]
Duane Hicks Mayor Roy Avis, together with Capts. Angel and Marlene Sandoval and new Walmart manager Judy McLeod, kicked off the local Salvation Army’s Christmas kettle campaign there yesterday. The kettles will be out at various locations around town from now until Dec. 24, with proceeds going to help district […]
Lucas Punkari Having talked about the need to improve his team’s blueline over the last few weeks, Fort Frances Lakers’ general manager/head coach Wayne Strachan went about doing just that yesterday, completing a pair of transactions that brought in two defencemen and one forward. “It’s been no secret that our […]
Staff Jessica Haw’s rink from Stratton is vying for a berth at next month’s Northern Ontario junior curling playdowns. The district foursome is competing against three other rinks at the Region 1 playdowns this weekend at the Keewatin Curling Club. Haw, along with third Kaylee Heyens, second Maria Vandenbrand, and […]
Lucas Punkari Lakers’ defenceman Marty McFadden raced into the Ice Dogs’ zone last night at the Ice For Kids Arena during the visitors’ 6-5 win in a shootout.
Staff The new deer fence at the Fort Frances Airport has been doing its job. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown said Wilco Contractors Superior Inc. completed work on the fence in mid-October and since it’s been up, no deer have been inside it. But he noted a bear did […]
Heather Latter David Black, of the “St. Francis Scruffians” team, along with Colin Drombolis of the opposing “Board Office Bearditos” crew, shaved off their moustaches in front of students at St. Francis this morning in celebration of the end of “Movember”—a moustache-growing campaign to raise funds and awareness for men’s […]
Staff The Muskie girls’ hockey team has fallen into a slump in NorWOSSA play as of late. The black-and-gold lost their third-straight game with a 5-4 loss to the host Dryden Eagles on Tuesday night. Amy Penner, Shilo Beck, Kaily Greengrass, and Ericka Tymkin scored in the loss, which dropped […]
