Staff Reconnecting with old friends and celebrating Italian heritage will be on the menu when the Borderland Italian Fall Dinner returns Saturday, Sept. 26 to the local Legion. The evening is for “any Italians or wannabe Italians or part Italians,” said Kim Lepine, one of the organizers, adding that for […]
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Mitch Calvert The effort looking to sustain Junior ‘A’ hockey in Fort Frances appears to be making headway with little time to spare before the puck drops on the new SIJHL season. Fort Frances Jr. Sabres’ head coach Wayne Strachan and Grant Perreault, the team’s director of scouting, hosted a […]
Peggy Revell Despite not knowing if their Bachelor of Science in Nursing program will run again, Confederation College and Lakehead University administration are busy gauging local interest and informing prospective students about the joint program. “The earliest we could deliver is September, 2010,”noted Karen Poole, director of Lakehead University’s School […]
Dave Ogilvie A public information meeting was held last Tuesday (Aug. 25) in the Chapple Hall by staff and engineers from Hydro One Networks Inc., the company responsible for the transmission and distribution of electrical power in Ontario. The purpose of the open house was to provide the public with […]
Peggy Revell With the fall semester just around the bend, the local campus of Confederation College is reporting the number of students this year “blows last year’s record out of the water.” The school is sitting at 128 confirmed students for the year, campus manager Anne Renaud noted last week, […]
Peggy Revell Grade two student Kasey Kreger-O’Neill, with the help of fifth-grader Alysha MacDonald, looked to find her name on the class lists posted on the front doors of Robert Moore early yesterday morning before the first bell of the new school year rang.
Heather Latter Crews began paving the Portage Avenue underpass yesterday, which was ahead of the original schedule, to allow for both lanes of traffic to be re-opened there this morning.
Heather Latter Fort Frances Museum curator Pam Hawley, left, along with summer student Jillian Berry, put in place a display of poppies for a new exhibit focusing on John McCrae, who is best-known for writing the famous World War I poem, “In Flanders Fields.” The exhibit, “Remembering John McCrae,” which […]
Heather Latter This stallion showed off the “courbette”—a maneuver where the horse balances on the hind legs and then jumps—during the “Airs Above the Ground” portion of the Lipizzaner Stallion show before a packed house at the ’52 Canadians Arena here Friday night.
Mitch Calvert Mike Wilson of the Barwick Blue Knights looked to make the tag on Sight & Sound Wolves’ player Bob Andy while Barwick’s Brad Wakefield (#7) provided back-up during the Rainy River District Fastball League final at George Oltsher Field in Barwick last Thursday evening. The game was called […]
Dear editor: I am writing this letter in regard to the Emo Fair horse show. I attended the fair with some friends, and we went to watch the parade and the horse show. I have owned, raised, trained, and shown horses for 40 years and I was motivated to write […]
Staff The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres will begin their on-ice operations with the opening of training camp tomorrow. Twenty-four skaters and seven goalies have confirmed their attendance, and that doesn’t include any local players who are hoping to suit up for the team. Registration for anyone interested in trying out […]
