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 […]
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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.
Duane Hicks Operations at the local sewage treatment plant have been running efficiently in the past year, with no problems to report, the Ontario Clean Water Agency told town council at last night’s regular meeting. In 2009, the plant never had to run over-capacity and bypass water, Jamie McPherson, OCWA […]
Staff It appears Rainy Lake has its earliest recorded ice-out. At the latest, the ice was out yesterday, although some anecdotal reports suggest it went out Sunday night. Ice-out dates on Rainy Lake have been recorded since 1930, with the previous record being April 13 in 1998. So whether the […]
Duane Hicks Artists, writers, and anyone else with ideas to contribute to the “What Hooks You Here” community rug-hooking project is encouraged to come to a visual communication workshop, led by Val Larson, tomorrow (April 14) from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Fort Frances Museum. While organizers are eager to get […]
Staff The public is invited to participate in the second “Mental Health and Addictions Awareness Walk,” which slated to take place here this Thursday (April 15). “Everyone’s welcome, so please come out,” said Tiffany Clifford, aboriginal alcohol and drug worker with the United Native Friendship Centre, who is organizing the […]
