Staff By any calculation, scoring 19 goals and drawing six assists would be considered a pretty productive hockey season for most players. For Annalise Hayes, those numbers amounted to one very successful tournament here over the weekend. And as amazing as she is, Hayes alone doesn’t define the Fort Frances […]
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Press Release Members of the Border Skating Club shone at the Skate Canada Northern Ontario STARskate championships in Sault Ste. Marie on Feb. 13-15. Their results from the “Festival of Stars” competition were as follows: •Jenna Wilson—2nd, Junior Bronze Women’s Freeskate (flight 4) and 7th, Junior Bronze Women’s Freeskate final; […]
Mitch Calvert If Sunday’s result was any indication, it should take a monumental upset to unseat the Muskie boys’ hockey team in the NorWOSSA playoffs. The Muskies improved to 8-1 in league play with a 13-0 thrashing of the Kenora Broncos here Sunday afternoon in a make-up game for the […]
Press Release Two Winnipeg residents have been convicted of offences related to the illegal possession of a resident hunting licence. Richard Brannan, 39, and Leonard Hoey, 38, each were convicted of two offences related to deer hunting in Ontario under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act. Brannan was fined $2,250 […]
Staff The Sunset Country Squash Club’s 22nd-annual tournament this past weekend was a smashing success. With new main sponsor Wesley Derksen LL.B., the tournament did not disappoint with the very best squash Northwestern Ontario has to offer. The men’s ‘A’ event arguably produced the finest squash of the weekend. Ben […]
Staff Don’t mention the name Troy Swail around any member of the Fort Frances Canadians ‘AA’ Midget hockey team this week. Swail scored the game-winning goal with less than half-a-second on the clock to propel the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints (Kenora) to a 4-3 win over the Canadians on Saunday […]
Press Release This past Sunday, Fort Frances hosted the zone round of the “Four Steps to Stardom” youth bowling tournament. Twenty local bowlers participated against 80 others from Atikokan, Kenora, and Dryden. Fort Frances YBC put in five teams of four in each of the Bantam boys, Bantam birls, Junior […]
Duane Hicks The Ge-Da-Gi Binez Youth Centre, the new 12-bed youth justice facility being constructed on Eighth Street, will be operational next month, with a grand opening planned for March 23 and its first clients expected to arrive the following day. Pwi-Di-Goo-Zing Ne-Yaa-Zhing Advisory Services is managing the Ge-Da-Gi Binez […]
Peggy Revell It may have been a cold winter so far, but Fort Frances has given a warm welcome to an exchange teacher and her family from Australia. “The people here are lovely,” said Maree Callaway, who arrived in January to teach at Fort High during a year-long exchange program. […]
Mitch Calvert As the old adage goes, three strikes and you’re out. That held true for the Brad Jacobs rink (Sault Ste. Marie), who beat all comers at the NOCA men’s provincial playdowns here except Mike Jakubo—suffering their third-straight loss to the Copper Cliff rink within a week in Saturday […]
Duane Hicks For the seventh-straight year, the Town of Fort Frances will be receiving money from the Moffat Family Fund to hand out to local groups and service clubs with the aim of helping youths and families. Fort Frances once again has been selected to receive $43,750 in funds to […]
Duane Hicks With an eye towards the implementation of meters for all water customers in coming years, town council will see industrial, commercial, and institutional (ICI) customers starting to pay more for water and sewer in 2009. While the rates have not yet been passed as a bylaw, town council […]
