Lucas Punkari While Fort Frances Lakers’ head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan is more a fan of team awards than individual accolades, he understands the importance of the squad’s annual awards banquet, which took place Friday evening at the Adventure Inn here. “It’s a night to award the players […]
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the MNR Three Michigan men have been fined a total of $7,250 for illegal deer-hunting activities and face several years of hunting suspensions. Bruce Hansen of Traverse City was fined $3,250 ,and is banned from hunting in Ontario for three years, for abandoning a white-tailed deer and littering. Josh Hansen […]
Press Release The SIJHL announced yesterday that Blake Boaz of the Fort Frances Lakers has been named the league’s best defensive forward for the 2010-11 season. The 19-year-old native of MacGregor, Man. edged out Riley Marsh (Thunder Bay North Stars) and Jesse Linner (Dryden Ice Dogs) in voting done by […]
Peggy Revell A recently-launched survey aims to gauge the district’s need for its own addictions treatment centre. “What we’re looking and hoping to achieve is for each community within our district—that includes all 10 First Nations, Rainy River, Emo, Fort Frances, and everywhere in between—we want to survey all the […]
Peggy Revell It will be a weekend filled with fun as Nestor Falls’ annual winter carnival is set to roll again on the first weekend of March. “We’re trying to get things ready to go,” enthused co-organizer Howard Dodd, who is looking forward to the annual event which runs from […]
Lucas Punkari Slow and steady may win the race, but it’ll take a lot more than that for anyone to stop the Wisconsin Wilderness. Having already clinched the SIJHL’s regular-season crown, the Wilderness brought their quick-fire artillery to the Ice For Kids Arena here Saturday night and skated away with […]
Duane Hicks The Town of Fort Frances will begin the official process of looking for new buyers for the old Fort Frances Public Library building on Church Street. In a report received by council at last night’s meeting, Fort Frances CAO Mark McCaig noted the old library building and property […]
Duane Hicks Union Gas will wrap up its three-year project to replace 17.2 km of natural gas lines in Fort Frances this spring, then move on to complete a new project here. In a presentation at last night’s council meeting, Union Gas utility services and construction manager Luke Skaarup said […]
Duane Hicks Just a few weeks after being honoured as the top librarian in Ontario by the Ontario Library Boards’ Association, chief librarian and library CEO Margaret Sedgwick was saluted by town council last night for her achievement. Mayor Roy Avis presented Sedgwick with a plaque in recognition of her […]
Duane Hicks No buyers have come forward to bid on the old Rainy Lake Hotel. The town put up the property for tax sale in mid-January but no one submitted a tender as of the deadline of 3 p.m. on Feb. 15. Tax administrator Tara Redford said there were expressions […]
Peggy Revell A dozen workplaces across the district were saluted Friday for the steps they’ve taken to prevent domestic violence in the workplace. “Domestic violence used to be a ‘mind your own business’ issue, but times have changed and employer requirements have changed,” said Donna Kroocmo, executive director of the […]
Peggy Revell Combining classroom instruction with e-learning is the focus of a pilot project now underway at the Northwest Catholic District School Board. Known as “Blended Learning,” the local board is now in the second year the project, which has been funded by the Ministry of Education for 16 boards […]
