Peggy Revell Despite declining numbers in past years, local “Relay for Life” organizers have high hopes for this year’s event. “We are committed this year to making sure this is the most enthusiastic relay ever,” said John Homer, who sits on the organizing committee. “I’ve been involved in the last […]
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Duane Hicks Plans are well underway for the 31st-annual Kiwanis auction next month, which for a second year won’t take place on TV but be done entirely through the popular Internet auction site ebay.ca Kiwanian Shanda DeGagné-Begin, who chairs the planning committee, said the club will be holding its auction […]
Duane Hicks Seeing a better than ever response this year, the fifth-annual “Medicine Cabinet Cleanout Contest” organized by the local seniors’ coalition wrapped up at the end of March. District residents were encouraged to take all their out-of-date or unused medications they don’t need anymore, bring them to their local […]
Ken Johnston For one individual, “What happened in Vegas did not stay in Vegas!” He ended up taking home some ink in the form of a Canadian flag tattooed on his backside! That was the price he paid for losing a fight on Easter weekend to Rainy River’s Robert Tolen. […]
Dan Falloon Mitch Cain was downright dastardly to opponents of the Des Moines Buccaneers in 2009-10. The former SIJHL Defensive Player of the Year kept up his swashbuckling ways with the Buccaneers, finishing tied for first on the team with a -2 in the plus/minus category. Cain, 18, acknowledged there […]
Dan Falloon Raymond Roy will be off to P.E.I. this fall in search of a national title. Roy and his rink of third Dave Broman, second Butch Wensley, and lead Patrick Briere knocked off Denis Prevost (Coniston) 5-2 in the final of the Dominion men’s club curling provincial championship over […]
Dan Falloon To be the best, you have to beat the best—sometimes twice. Local skip Kim Beaudry was able to defeat Melanie Patry (Coniston) 3-2 on Sunday morning at the Dominion women’s club curling championship at the Port Arthur Curling Club in Thunder Bay, but that wasn’t quite good enough […]
Dan Falloon The local Border Skating Club saw 35 years of combined experience take its final bow over the weekend. Graduating skaters Dana Drennan (14 years), Bailey Whitefield (13 years), and Christine Cridland (eight years) all laced up their skates at the Ice For Kids Arena for one last time […]
Duane Hicks A mortally-wounded “Audrey” (Christina Empey) bid farewell to her beloved, “Seymour” (David Loney), as she sacrificed herself to the man-eating plant, “Audrey 2,” during Fort Frances Muskie Theatre’s opening-night performance of “Little Shop of Horrors” at the Townshend Theatre last Wednesday. The rock musical ran there April 7-10. […]
Peggy Revell Matt Jackson, the B.C.-based author of “The Canada Chronicles” and editor for two anthologies of quirky travel stories, shared a humorous tale from one of his books Monday evening during a visit to the Fort Frances Public Library. Jackson—who once spent four years hitchhiking across Canada, and also […]
Staff The new Treaty #3 Police station is being built at the corner of Idylwild Drive and School Road. The pre-fabricated, modular building was built off-site and then moved to this location. Funding from the federal and provincial governments totalling $1,692,870 was announced back in November.
Dan Falloon Junior skater Brianna Eldridge wasn’t clowning around at the ice show Saturday night, pulling off some serious moves.
