Duane Hicks Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP John Rafferty dropped off diapers Friday at the Girl Guides display at the Fort Frances Museum. Girl Guides of Canada, in partnership with Huggies’ “Every Little Bottom” program, is collecting diapers to donate to their local food banks. Here, the public can drop off […]
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Dave Ogilvie The Emo and District Lions Club is looking for groups in and around Emo to participate in this year’s “Polar Plunge,” which will take place New Year’s Day in front of La Place Rendez-Vous in Fort Frances. Participating groups get to keep half of the money they raise […]
Press Release Since the age of five, Blair Jack has faced many life-threatening situations with courage and determination. He came in contact with blastomycosis, which damaged his kidneys and lungs, and his life has not been the same since. Over the years, Jack, now 30, has been in the hospital […]
Duane Hicks While Christmas is still two months away, the Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau already has started working on its 23rd-annual Community Christmas Dinner—and is looking for donations and volunteers to once again make it a reality. Head organizer Karen Mitchell said Monday the popular event definitely is going to […]
Duane Hicks The former F.H. Huffman School closed its doors in June, but the building and its surrounding property may not go unused for long after the Town of Fort Frances agreed to buy it for $155,000. “We’ve been looking at it for the last while, we’ve purchased it, and […]
Robin McCormick The municipal election is being held this coming Monday (Oct. 25), with voting taking place from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. at the municipal office. Don’t forget to cast your ballot. Ross Donaldson and Ken McKinnon are vying for reeve while Dennis Allen, Jim Belluz, Freeda Carmody, Harold Kellar, Lucille […]
Staff A total of 919 Hydro One customers east of Fort Frances can expect a planned power interruption this Sunday (Oct 24). The power interruption will start at 10 a.m., with power being restored by 2 p.m., Hydro One reported. Townships to be affected include Carpenter, Claxton, Crow Lake FN, […]
Staff The Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team pulled off a pretty good showing at a tournament in Dryden, but couldn’t quite make the weekend as long as they had hoped. The black-and-gold fell in straight sets to Red Lake in the semi-finals after winning seven of 10 sets during round-robin […]
Press Release The Ontario Literacy Coalition has secured funding from the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities and several employers to initiate the second phase of the Collaborative Development Approaches: Piloting Illustrative Workplace Models. With the support of our partners in Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills, the OLC will build […]
Dan Falloon The Muskie girls’ senior basketball team only was able to muster one win at a tournament in Thunder Bay over the weekend, but they very well could have come home with a 2-1 record. The black-and-gold opened with a victory over Superior, winning by a double-digit margin (the […]
Dan Falloon Local swimmers got the 2010-11 season off to the right start Saturday as several brought home gold medals and personal bests from a meet in Dryden. Limited to four races apiece, three Fort Frances Aquanauts—Donovan Taylor, Levi Rittau, and Katja Sutherland—posted clean sweeps by winning each of their […]
Dan Falloon In a sense, it was a good tournament that got the Muskie junior girls’ basketball team into a bit of a funk. Now head coach Dan Bird is hoping another solid showing will help jolt the black-and-gold out of it. The Muskies went 2-1 to capture the consolation […]
