With only five games left in the SIJHL’s regular season, the game plan couldn’t be any clearer for the Fort Frances Lakers. “This is probably the biggest stretch of the season for us,” stressed Lakers’ head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan. “Depending on what happens in the next four […]
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Duane Hicks While the Town of Fort Frances is claiming a new collective agreement with the Fort Frances Professional Fire Fighters Association will cost them dearly, the deal is on par with other fire departments in Northern Ontario. The arbitrated award includes a 16 percent wage increase over a four-year […]
Duane Hicks Town council is questioning why the Town of Fort Frances has a higher-than-average number of police officers. At Monday night’s regular meeting, Coun. Ken Perry said he’s done research and determined the national average for police officers in communities is 2.0 officers per 1,000 people, but the ratio […]
Duane Hicks AbitibiBowater signed a deal Friday to sell its interest in its Ontario hydro assets for $300 million, including the hydro dam here in Fort Frances, but the transaction will not affect the 1905 historic power agreement. “It will not impact the historic power agreement. The only thing that […]
Duane Hicks Members of International Association of Machinists Local 771 and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 1744 are fighting AbitibiBowater regarding changes to their pensions which they say they have not agreed to. Union reps are in Thunder Bay this week to begin arbitration regarding the “biomass agreement” struck […]
Duane Hicks Residents and some businesses will see an increase in sewer and water rates in 2011. Town council approved a schedule of rates recommended by the Operations and Facilities executive committee at its regular meeting Monday night, which includes a two percent increase for residential customers. This works out […]
Peggy Revell The United Native Friendship Centre here has launched a new campaign aimed at tackling violence against aboriginal women. “The Kanawayhitowin program is an aboriginal campaign in Ontario to raise awareness about the signs of abuse in our community of aboriginal women,” UNFC executive director Sheila McMahon explained at […]
Lucas Punkari It’s all come down to this for the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team as they look to edge closer to the NWOSSAA showdown to determine who will head to the all-Ontarios in March. The squad, along with their junior counterparts as well as both Muskie girls’ volleyball squads, […]
Lucas Punkari While her team may not have beaten the Dryden Eagles during the regular season, the confidence that Muskie senior girls’ volleyball player Megan Veniot extolled heading into the NorWOSSA playoffs this Friday in Kenora spoke volumes. “We’ve been saving everything for them and we’re going to absolutely destroy […]
Lucas Punkari While his win-loss record was better than it was a year ago, Tim Nordin of the Stratton Curling Club came away empty-handed for the second-straight year at the Northern Ontario men’s provincial curling championships last week. After finishing with a 2-9 mark last year in Sudbury, Nordin escaped […]
Lucas Punkari It only took a couple of minutes, but the after-shock of what had transpired in the late stags of the second period between the Muskie girls’ hockey team and Kenora Broncos on Friday night at the Ice For Kids Arena was visible for all to see. Trailing 3-1 […]
Lucas Punkari For the third year in a row, Ben Andrusco finished atop the heap of the men’s ‘A’ event at the Wes Derksen Open squash tournament held over the weekend at the Memorial Sports Centre. The best-of-five final went the full distance before Andrusco prevailed over long-time friend Jason […]
