Mitch Calvert With the Speedo junior national diving championships set to start July 9 in Victoria, B.C., a young diver with Fort Frances connections is readying herself for a repeat performance. Molly Carlson, 10, splashed onto the diving scene at last year’s nationals—held at her home pool in Thunder Bay—by […]
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Dryden singer Lorne Nelson kept participants entertained all through the night with country songs and other melodies. Even when the big tent was empty, organizer John Homer said people still were having a wonderful time listening to him from their campsites.
Haven Labbe received an award from Fort Frances High School principal Gord McCabe during the school’s convocation ceremony last Thursday night at the Memorial Sports Centre. She received several awards, including the Board of Education Leading Student Award, the Governor General’s Academic Medal, and the Sir Isaac Newton Award.
As one of many entertainment acts, the Highland dancers from Fort Dance Studio took time to perform under the big tent, including a traditional sword dance.
Before participants started walking laps, the trainers at Energy Fitness got everyone ready with some warm-ups under the big tent.
With the night growing darker, Lori Cain lit one of the luminaries along the pathway. Each luminary was adorned with the name of friends and family who have faced cancer.
Peggy Revell While just red and white kerchiefs that went into the bag “Magic Ken” is holding, Tyler Jensen ended up pulling out a green kerchief—one of the many tricks and jokes at the magic show held in the Fort Frances Museum’s courtyard last Friday during “Mall Days.”
Elisabeth Heslop Jennifer Coats worked on a watercolour painting of dying tulips at a workshop taught by former local artist Linda Lovisa at the Fine Line Art Gallery here last Wednesday. Lovisa, in town for a visit, still is a member of the gallery and also taught a class in […]
Samantha Stone, left, newly-crowned as the 2009 mini-queen, posed with 2008 mini-queen Callahan Wiedenhoeft on Friday on the front steps of the museum. The 34th-annual mini-queen pageant and the third-annual mini-king contest were held as part of the BIA’s “Mall Days.”
Elisabeth Heslop 2008 mini-king Christian Wiedenhoeft draped the royal robe around the shoulders of this year’s mini-king, Nolan Mann, during “Mall Days” on Friday.
Peggy Revell Mark Kowalchuk, chair of the fundraising campaign for the new library, showed Fort Frances RBC branch manager Heather Johnson some of the conceptual drawings for the planned area for teenagers—to be named the “RBC Teen Zone” following a donation of $25,000 to the project by the RBC Foundation.
Submitted Christine Borden congratulated Jennifer Friday on her successful completion of the Azhemiinagoziwin Program during the Seven Generation Education Institute’s annual graduation ceremony held June 18.
