Joey Payeur A renewed focus on offence saw the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team make their point—several points, actually. The black-and-gold discovered the basket isn’t as small as it seems to them sometimes, landing in third place at the St. Ignatius Invitational tournament in Thunder Bay last weekend. “We’ve been […]
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Joey Payeur It’s not often a team wins by six goals and is criticized for stretches of poor play. But that’s life for the Muskie boys’ hockey team, for which the bar of expectations is higher due to their tradition of success. The Muskies (5-1) whipped the Red Lake Rams […]
Joey Payeur Randy White’s confidence in his team’s offence is now officially well-founded. The coach of the Fort Frances Thunderhawks has been waiting for his squad to find that extra scoring gear—a wait that ended abruptly last Tuesday night (Jan. 11) as the Thunderhawks dissected the visiting Kenora Thistles 10-5 […]
Joey Payeur If Mel Langtry was looking to get his team’s attention, he knows he achieved his goal. After a lacklustre effort in a 5-4 home loss to the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints (Kenora) in their previous game last Tuesday (Jan. 11), the Muskie girls’ hockey team faced the consequences […]
Duane Hicks FORT FRANCES—Carrying on with its strategic plan implemented last year, the Northwestern Health Unit will continue to focus on accountability, fiscal responsibility, partnerships, and measurable goals in 2011. Some good news for district municipalities is that there will be no health unit levy increase this year. “Our levy […]
Duane Hicks FORT FRANCES—Two plaques listing Fort Frances High School alumni who served in Word War II—once a fixture in the halls of the old high school on First Street East—finally have found a place at the new Fort High. Along with a portrait of former FFHS principal Capt. J.R. […]
Peggy Revell Fort Frances resident Vi Belluz has been bitten by mitten-mania. Since first starting out two years ago, she has been busy giving old sweaters new life with her sewing machine by transforming them into warm winter mittens. “My sister in Thunder Bay originally started making them, and then […]
Duane Hicks FORT FRANCES—With town council expected to attend the annual conference of the Ontario Good Roads Association/Rural Ontario Municipal Association on Feb. 27-March 2, local delegates are making their wish list of meetings they’d like to have with ministers while there. One of the topics they want to bring […]
Duane Hicks FORT FRANCES—Rainy Lake First Nations Pharmacy, a partnership between the Rainy Lake Tribal Development Corp. and pharmacist Edwin Bruyere, held its grand-opening Monday at the Gizhewaadiziwin Health Access Centre on Couchiching. The new pharmacy, located at 1460 Idylwild Drive, has been built as an expansion onto the health […]
Joey Payeur For many people, the thought of racing five or 10 km is a bit beyond their grasp. To do it in the middle of January, in a place reputed as the coldest spot in the lower 48 states during winter, is way beyond their concept of rational behaviour. […]
Staff J.W. Walker School and Fort High are going solar. J.W. Walker saw a 5.4 kW photovoltaic system installed this past fall, and finally were “hooked up” back into this grid and commissioned on Dec. 30. Meanwhile, Fort High’s solar panel project will be bigger than the one at J.W. […]
Duane Hicks FORT FRANCES—Fort Frances mayor and council may have their outlook on the 2011 budget change come next Monday after receiving a presentation on a financial asset management report which proposes an aggressive taxation schedule. At a budget meeting this past Monday, Fort Frances CAO Mark McCaig said “it’s […]
