Dan Falloon Three local hockey players have taken on some dramatically different roles with the Thunder Bay Kings so far this season. Defenceman Jon Carlson and forwards Donovan Cousineau and Bryce Knapp all are part of the Kings’ Major Midget ‘AAA’ roster, but each one brings something different to the […]
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Dan Falloon A pair of junior Muskie runners made inroads at the first cross-country meet of the season last Wednesday in Kenora. Racing in the late-September sunshine, ninth-graders Jack Hamilton and Dante Tookenay finished third and fourth, respectively. Hamilton wrapped up the 5.2-km race in 23:08, with Tookenay right behind […]
Dan Falloon The scoresheet doesn’t always show everything as the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team learned at a tournament in Dryden over the weekend. Although the black-and-gold finished with a 1-2 record, head coach Ian Simpson noted the two losses were to the top teams in Thunder Bay—St. Ignatius and […]
Dan Falloon Three points are all that separates Fort High from the top half of the WHSFL’s Currie Division. A failed conversion proved to be the difference in the Muskies’ 14-13 loss to the Stonewall Rams here Friday—one week after a failed two-point conversion was the difference in a 24-22 […]
Dan Falloon The Lakers have taken advantage of a favourable home schedule to start the 2010-11 season. The local Junior ‘A’ squad has won four of five games in the friendly confines of the Ice For Kids Arena after edging Dryden 3-2 last Tuesday night and then blanking Sioux Lookout […]
Peggy Revell J.W. Walker students Simone Payne, Rachel Anderson, Shakira Whitefish, and Grace Petsnick were busy filling up a garbage bag Friday as they participated in the annual “Great Canadian Shoreline Clean-up.” Walker students cleaned up along the La Verendrye Parkway and the riverfront, tallying up the amount of garbage […]
Peggy Revell Fort High students Meagan Beacham, Angel Nixon, Robyn Sullivan, and Alyssa Caul scrolled through the course calendar for Algonquin College in Ottawa on Thursday as the annual “College Tour” set up shop for the morning. Students had the chance to speak with representatives from the various schools to […]
Peggy Revell Alberton volunteer firefighters Johannes Gerber, left, Inno Laur, Peter Neilson, Rob Barkley, and Willy Cole, along with chief Sandy Haney (rear), stood in front of the department’s latest addition: a new fire rescue van purchased from Montreal. The crew and other community members were out Saturday at the […]
Dan Falloon Lakers’ forward Jon Sinclair battled Sioux Lookout defenceman Kalan Ewald in front of Flyers’ goalie Jordan Giguere in a 4-0 win for Fort Frances at the Ice For Kids Arena on Saturday night. The Lakers had two points apiece from Tyler Stevenson, Byron Katapaytuk, and Jace Baldwin as […]
Peggy Revell Kenora OPP Cst. Dave Cain placed a sheet of plaster over Fort Frances Cst. Anne McCoy yesterday afternoon during the mask-making section of a week of training being held at the Couchiching multi-use facility for the “Walking the Path” program. Some 21 local police officers and community members […]
Duane Hicks Fort Frances Elks Lodge 313 welcomed a visit from Ontario Elks provincial president Derek Barkley and Mark Montgomery, past-president of the Elks of Canada, on Monday. Pictured here are Barkley and local Elks president Anthony Kadikoff, foreground, along with Lodge 313 members Tom Kiddle, Ed Campbell, Gord Calder, […]
Staff Fort Frances Lakers’ goalie Tyler Ampe has a souvenir after only three weeks in the SIJHL. Ampe was named the Pizza Hut SIJHL player-of-the-week after recording a 2-0 mark in three appearances this past week, posting a 0.87 GAA and .970 save percentage in those games. The soon-to-be 19-year-old […]
