Peggy Revell Organizers of this year’s “Relay for Life” are inviting the public to a kick-of meeting next Tuesday (April 6) at 6 p.m. at La Place Rendez-Vous. “The open meeting is for anybody who is interested in signing up a team, or volunteering or sitting on the committee,” explained […]
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Duane Hicks With the municipal election coming up Oct. 25, Coun. Sharon Tibbs is the first person to file her nomination to run for town council again. Coun. Tibbs, who has served on council for 16 years in all, including a 12-year stint from 1991-2003 and then this current term […]
Peggy Revell Two Fort Frances women will be heading to Haiti next week to assist with relief efforts following the devastating earthquake that struck the Caribbean nation back in January. “We’re going to do what we can,” said Pastor Sandy McEvoy, who will be leaving April 6 for a 10-day […]
Dan Falloon Ken McKinnon thought he’d never see the day when he would hoist the trophy for the local men’s bonspiel. But at age 74, everything clicked into place for McKinnon on Sunday as he won an international showdown in the ‘A’-event final against Tom Mayer of International Falls by […]
Dan Falloon It took a minor upset for the Raymond Roy rink to punch a ticket to the club provincial playdowns, but it wasn’t a match the locals had a hand in. Roy and his rink of Dave Broman, Butch Wensley, and Patrick Briere already were sitting with a 4-1 […]
Dan Falloon It all came down to Sunday morning. With Kim Beaudry and Kenora’s Crystal Wojtowicz both sitting at 2-0, the round-robin finale between the two rinks essentially morphed into a tournament final. At stake: a berth in the club provincial playdowns April 8-11 at the Port Arthur Curling Club […]
Dan Falloon The standings show the Lorne Jackson rink finished 2-3 at the mixed curling provincial playdowns in Kenora over the weekend, but the skip was thrilled with his squad’s performance nonetheless. “We played quite well,” he enthused. “We lost a couple games that pretty much just came down to […]
Dan Falloon Jeff Johnston has done more than his part to help conservation efforts in Rainy Lake District. And now the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters has recognized Johnston’s work by awarding him the Gord Blake Memorial Conservation Award, which is “given to the individual O.F.A.H. member whose efforts […]
Dan Falloon Tirzah Keffer and her Muskie girls’ rink said they were just happy to have made it to the all-Ontarios in Toronto last week. But looking at some of their results, it’s a little hard to believe. Keffer and her rink of third Samantha Mueller, second Carley Busch, and […]
Dan Falloon With a roller coaster 2009-10 season just minutes behind them, all the Fort Frances Lakers could do was look back and gasp in awe at what they had accomplished. “If you’d have said a month or six weeks ago that we’d be playing in Game 6 of the […]
Peggy Revell Angel Spade and Hayden Allam were having a blast in the big pool that was brought in for the beach party at the Zaagi-idiwin Aboriginal Head Start program here last Wednesday. Besides beating the winter “blahs” with a splash in the pool, the youngsters also played frisbee, limboed, […]
Staff Melissa Mosely spoke with Brad Hogan and Wednesday Galusha of Fort Floral during Northwoods Gallery and Gifts’ annual bridal show last Wednesday night. The well-attended event provided brides with a complete range of wedding information as well as a chance to win a wide variety of special door prizes.
