Press Release The local Boston Pizza Royals PeeWee ‘AA’ team went into action Saturday (Oct. 2) against their Dryden Paper Kings counterparts. The Royals ended up winning the game 5-4. Action was at a high pace and the local kids played with great intensity. Jordan Taggart, Graeme Kitt, Cole Tymkin, […]
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Press Release The Sunset Country Squash Club attended possibly its earliest junior tournament to date, which ran Oct. 1-3 at the Winnipeg Squash Racquet Club. The team experienced mixed results as not everyone was in peak condition so early in the season. Fortunately, a few sore bodies and pulled muscles […]
Dan Falloon The top goalie for the Fort Frances Lakers so far this season hasn’t been reigning SIJHL goalie-of-the-year Jameson Shortreed. Shortreed hasn’t played poorly by any stretch, but the 17-year-old is coming off a rough outing in the Lakers’ 5-4 loss in Sioux Lookout on Friday night, getting blitzed […]
Duane Hicks Asking for clean, quality items only After requesting last month that the community hold off on donations to the local Salvation Army’s thrift store, Capts. Angel Sandoval-Silva and Marlene Sandoval are welcoming the public to give clothes and household items once again. But while the two-week break gave […]
Staff Nestor Falls’ bid to be crowned the “Ultimate Fishing Town” came up a little short in the end. But all was not lost as the community’s efforts in the World Fishing Network’s online contest landed it a $5,000 community donation for its second-place finish. The prize is “to help […]
Dan Falloon There’s something to be said for coming through in the clutch. The Muskie golf team did just that—blowing the competition out of the water at the NWOSSAA championship in Geraldton last Thursday, winding up with a total score of 308 on the day, 14 shots better than second-place […]
Duane Hicks An inquest here last week into the August, 2009 death of a man at the Fort Frances Jail determined he died accidently of opiate toxicity, with the jury making recommendations aimed at preventing similar deaths in future. The inquest examined the death of Atikokan resident Dylan Wreggitt, 21, […]
Peggy Revell Teaching youth about self-esteem and self-respect is the goal as 21 police officers and other community members gather this week for training to run the OPP’s “Walking the Path” education curriculum. “We find that once [the program] comes into an area, people just snowball—they want it everywhere because […]
Duane Hicks A new program called Seniors and Law Enforcement Together (SALT) is off and running in Rainy River District, with a growing membership and a starting focus. Becky Holden, a health educator with the Northwestern Health Unit office here and chair of the local seniors’ coalition, said that as […]
Staff While snow, winter, and Christmas probably are the farthest things from many people’s minds heading into Thanksgiving, planning already is underway for the 53rd-annual Christmas “Parade of Lights” here. Slated for Nov. 27, the theme this year is “The Lights and Sounds of Christmas,” said Robin Payeur of Causeway […]
Duane Hicks Work on the deck of the Noden Causeway will take longer than expected after the Ministry of Transportation reported the bridge rehabilitation work, scheduled to be complete by mid-October, is behind schedule. “The construction work on the deck of the west low level structure is currently behind schedule, […]
Duane Hicks After a somewhat less successful fundraiser last fall, the Fort Frances Voyageur Lions Club saw its annual “Drive-Thru Breakfast” come roaring back as a success last Thursday at Tim Hortons here. “This year’s ‘Drive-Thru’ grossed just over $2,500, which will allow us to build towards our remaining $5,000 […]
