Staff Family, friends, and well-wishers alike gathered for a ground-breaking ceremony yesterday afternoon to kick off construction of the Boston Pizza restaurant on King’s Highway just west of the Super 8 Motel here. Local franchisees Dale Fortes and Elizabeth Leishman-Fortes, along with their four-year-old daughter, Isabella, were on hand for […]
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Duane Hicks With the Ontario government having a goal to install a “smart meter” in every Ontario home and small business by 2010, the Fort Frances Power Corp. will begin to roll out its installation program here starting Monday (May 25). FFPC CEO Joerg Ruppenstein said the meter exchange is […]
Jack Elliott On April 29, at St. Clair College in Windsor, Stratton native Angela Lee was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association. Lee was honoured along with 88 other athletes, coaches, and builders from colleges across Ontario for distinguishing themselves through demonstrated leadership and […]
Elisabeth Heslop When Grade 6 student Ben Mast found out he had won his school’s speech contest, his family’s initial “knee-jerk” reaction was to skip the district-wide one, according to his dad, Mark. That’s because they had a previous engagement: a long drive to Chicago for his older brother’s graduation […]
Mitch Calvert Weather delayed the start of the Borderland Racing Association’s season at the Emo Speedway, which originally was scheduled for May 16. The hope is races will be a go for this Saturday (May 23). “We have been unable to get the track in the best condition possible [due […]
Mitch Calvert For Christin Thomson, progression is more important than results right now. After taking the month of April off from competition to retool and refocus, the Fort Frances native now is more confident in her golf game than she’s been for some time. “I took April off and just […]
Mitch Calvert The Muskie girls’ soccer team knows what it takes—and has a maximum of four games standing in their way of a second-straight appearance at the all-Ontarios. Two of those games go today in Kenora (at 11:30 a.m. versus the Dryden Eagles and then 2 p.m. against the host […]
Mitch Calvert If the Muskie boys’ soccer team hopes to advance to the all-Ontarios this year, they are going to have to do it the hard way. The black-and-gold (1-3) can finish no better than second in the NorWOSSA standings no matter how they fare in their final regular-season action […]
Staff Three Aquanauts represented the local club at the Island Long Course Invitational in Victoria, B.C. over the weekend. Donovan Taylor, Jillian Gustafson, and Katja Sutherland all competed in a variety of events, with their results as follows (* denotes personal best time): •Donovan Taylor (14)—50m back (31:04, 2nd), 50m […]
Staff Calling all aspiring sailors: the Rendezvous Yacht Club wants you! The RYC will try again to host a two-day new crew program on June 20-21 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., which is aimed at giving interested participants hands-on training aboard sailboats and in the classroom. The cost is $40 ($35 […]
Peggy Revell J.W. Walker student Hanna Mueller took a photo of some of her classmates across the street, as well as all the traffic at the corner of Keating Avenue and King’s Highway, as part of the “Safe Routes” pilot project. A few dozen Grade 5 and 6 students will […]
Duane Hicks Boston Pizza Fort Frances franchisees Elizabeth Leishman-Fortes, left, and Dale Fortes were all smiles as their daughter, Isabella, did the honourary sod-turning—with a little help from Mayor Roy Avis—yesterday afternoon at the future site of the new restaurant. Also on hand for the ceremony were Piero Staltaro, site […]
