Ice conditions throughout Sunset Country have been changing rapidly over the past week and anglers need to exercise extreme caution when venturing onto the ice if they choose to go fishing before the end of the month. Last year I fished walleyes right up until April 14 on Lake of […]
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Staff The Fort Frances Badminton Club will be hosting its annual invitational tournament this Friday to Sunday (March 27-29) at Fort High. Action opens Friday from 7-10 p.m. with singles matches, then continues all Saturday from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. with more singles’ and doubles’ action. A social will follow that […]
Joey Payeur Some on-court digging yielded a treasure of silver for a pair of local badminton players at the Manitoba Junior Open this past weekend in Winnipeg. Anika Alexander, 12, proved herself worthy against more experienced competition to earn silver in the combined under-12/under-14 girls’ singles division. Meanwhile, her older […]
Mitch Calvert The local Bantam boys’ curling rink put in a courageous effort at the provincial championship in Sudbury last weekend despite being without skip Isaac Keffer, but fell one win short in a bid to advance to Sunday’s Page playoffs. The foursome finished the round-robin at 3-2 in a […]
Mitch Calvert Wanted: young hockey players. The Source for Sports Canadian Hockey Skills Challenge is taking place in more than 60 markets across Canada this year with more than $20,000 in prizes up for grabs—and Fort Frances players have as good a shot as anybody. The local competition, presented by […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO—Spending up to $10,000 to hire 100 “fake” homeless people for an evening might sound to some like an odd use of tax dollars in a recession. But Toronto city officials say the “decoys” are needed to ensure the statistical validity of the city’s second-ever survey of […]
The Canadian Press PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.—It’ll last you a lifetime—and then some. Prince George, B.C. resident Brent Goerz has launched a home business making caskets that double as bookshelves, curios, or storage boxes until the day they’re needed as a final resting place. Goerz conceded he received some strange looks […]
Duane Hicks Town council agreed to reschedule its next budget meeting from March 30 to April 6 as it waits for more information that will impact the 2009 municipal budget. Treasurer Laurie Witherspoon informed council last night that while the tenders for the new library were opened on March 17, […]
Mitch Calvert NORTH BAY—We made it! After surviving an 18-hour bus ride that started Sunday at 10 p.m. in Fort Frances and ended yesterday at 5 p.m. (local time) in North Bay, the Muskie boys’ hockey team can now turn its attention to preparing to face third-ranked Upper Canada College […]
Peggy Revell What used to be the central outdoor rink now has been thoroughly covered by mounds of dirt as site work is underway for construction of the new Robert Moore School here.
Duane Hicks Seine River Chief Earl Klyne, left, Nigigoonsiminikaaning Chief Gary Allen, Rainy River First Nations Chief Jim Leonard, Pwi-Di-Goo-Zing Ne-Yaa-Zhing Advisory Services executive director Richard Bruyere, Couchiching Chief Chuck McPherson, Naicatchewenin Chief Wayne Smith, and Stanjikoming Chief Janice Henderson were among the delegates gathered for the ceremonial ribbon-cutting yesterday […]
