Duane Hicks The Fort Frances Fire and Rescue Service and Union Gas responded to a natural gas relief valve going off early yesterday evening at the Union Gas town border station (TBS) on Mowat Avenue. A member of the public had reported the smell of natural gas in the vicinity […]
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Lucas Punkari For the first time since the days of the old NorWOSSA league, the Muskie football team has won a playoff game. The black-and-gold, who finished in fifth place in the Currie Division during the regular season, upset the fourth-place St. Norbert Celtics 15-8 yesterday afternoon at Canad Inns […]
Heather Latter More than 30 young women from across the district—and as far away as Dryden—learned about skilled trades and technologies during the “Skills Work! For Women” networking dinner last night at La Place Rendez-Vous here. Several local female mentors, including Kim Jo Bliss and Linda Plumridge, talked to the […]
Peggy Revell Locak Kiwanian Shanda DeGagne-Begin spoke about the organization during yesterday evening’s information session held at the Little Beaver Cultural Centre in hopes of recruiting new members. While the club has been active in the district for decades, raising funds to help young children, its membership has fallen to […]
Peggy Revell Decked out in their Hallowe’en costumes, Kaylen Levesque and Erica Lemkin zoomed around the Ice For Kids Arena yesterday evening as the Border Skating Club got into the spirit of the spooky season with a party for its lessons.
Duane Hicks A total of seven windows have been painted for the Fort Frances Public Library’s Hallowe’en window-painting contest in the children’s department, with the public now being urged to stop by and vote for your favourite this weekend. One ballot per person can be picked up at the main […]
Peggy Revell With a big “Yay!” local Husky employee Jean Dakin showed off the station’s new gas pumps following months of construction that cut off fuel sales there. The new pumps have been upgraded with “pay-at-the-pump” and have “select-a-grade” features.
Fort Frances Lakers’ forward Henry Gutierrez carved a pumpkin with SK students at St. Michael’s School yesterday in preparation for Hallowe’en. —Heather Latter photo
Lucas Punkari The seesaw battle for first place in the SIJHL between the Fort Frances Lakers and Wisconsin Wilderness swung back in favour of the local team Tuesday night in Chisholm thanks to a 7-2 win over the expansion Iron Range Ironheads. In addition to again leading the seven-team loop […]
Staff The Muskie court teams welcomed the Dryden Eagles to Fort High on Tuesday afternoon as all four looked to improve their NorWOSSA records. But when the dust settled, only the junior girls’ basketball squad came away with a victory, cruising to a 42-27 win. Keira Lindgren led the black-and-gold […]
Staff In a repeat performance of 2009, Holmlund Financial won The Great Canadian “Spook-tacular” Chili Cook-Off and Cake Roulette yesterday at the local Legion. Decked out in devil horns, the team of Susan Bodnarchuk and Bruce Holmlund wowed the judges with their concoction, “Holmlund’s Hell of a Good Chili,” to […]
Investors constantly are being bombarded by a mantra-like litany to diversify their holdings. Any objective observer should acknowledge this is a cop-out. Instead, what is essential is to determine if the possible loss in an investment situation is greater than the amount of a possible return. Whatever strategies are employed […]
