Duane Hicks Whether it was about funding or recycling, local delegates got a chance to speak with provincial representatives about issues pertinent to Fort Frances at the 2010 Ontario Good Roads Association/Rural Ontario Municipal Association conference Feb. 21-24 in Toronto. Mayor Roy Avis attended, along with Couns. Ken Perry and […]
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Duane Hicks Jackie McCormick wants to help area residents, no matter their age, to experience the world of sound to its fullest. The audiologist opened her doors at the Fort Frances Enhanced Hearing Centre in the Senic River Mall here Monday. “I am very excited to start something new,” said […]
Ken Johnston Loser has to get tattooed What do trash talking, the Internet, satellite radio, and fighting have in common? They all led Robert Tolen of Rainy River to a boxing match he will fight April 3 in Las Vegas, Nev. Tolen, 37, was listening to the Jason Ellis Faction […]
Dan Falloon They had been expecting to be linemates this season—but Graham Dyck and Kyle Turgeon didn’t anticipate they’d have to go to Portage la Prairie, Man. to do it. Dyck, 20, from Atikokan, and Turgeon, 19, of Fort Frances had played for the Fort Frances Jr. Sabres from 2007-09, […]
Dan Falloon The Red Lake Rams were a pretty good cure for what ailed the Muskie boys’ hockey team late in the regular season. The black-and-gold easily swept the NorWOSSA semi-final series by scores of 13-2 here on Friday night and then 8-2 in Red Lake on Sunday. The win […]
Dan Falloon Anniss Seid has a surprise packed up and ready to go. The local junior squash player will compete in the Ontario Winter Games beginning tomorrow in Sudbury, and he feels he’s better equipped to give his competitors a challenge this time around. “I think I’ll do all right,” […]
Dan Falloon If hockey games were 40 minutes long, the Muskie girls’ hockey team would be off to the NorWOSSA final. Unfortunately for the black-and-gold, games are at least 60 minutes—and that’s the one little detail that ended Fort High’s season. The Muskies’ had jumped ahead of their semi-final opponent, […]
Dan Falloon The Fort Frances Lakers are looking to Team Canada’s dramatic 3-2 overtime win over the United States in Sunday’s Olympic gold-medal game as inspiration heading into their first-round playoff series with the K&A Wolverines of Thunder Bay. Head coach Wayne Strachan said his team will look to garner […]
Dan Falloon Judy LaBelle surprised even herself at the senior women’s provincial playdowns in Blind River last week. She and her rink of third Mary Beth Tkachuk, second Maureen Thomson, and lead Trudy Badiuk came in with a goal of winning three games. But the team won four—and a fifth […]
Peggy Revell Local resident Anne Renaud, who carried the Olympic flame in Vermilion Bay back in January as part of its cross-country relay, visited the Fort Frances Nursery School on Thursday morning to give the little ones a chance to see the torch and share in the Olympic fever that […]
Duane Hicks Audiologist Jackie McCormick, right, demonstrated on an associate how an impedance bridge is used to check the status of the middle ear.
Hannah Myers tested out different types of rocks for electrical conductivity at the “Mining Matters” booth.
