Staff The Pinewood Blades Bantam girls’ hockey team was pushed to their limits but still managed to emerge as champions at the Kathy Sanders Memorial tournament in Dryden last weekend with a 5-4 victory over the Kenora Avalanche in the final. It was their second tournament victory in as many […]
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Mitch Calvert That’s more like it. The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres exacted some revenge Sunday afternoon with a 7-1 thrashing of the Sioux Lookout Flyers, rebounding from a 7-4 loss to that same team here a week ago yesterday. “Much better effort,” Sabres’ head coach Wayne Strachan said. “One of […]
Peggy Revell Lee Dillman of Rainy River held up one of the many fish he’s hand-carved and painted over the years. After 20 years of this hobby, Dillman has donated six of his completed fish to the Fort Frances Museum—with more possibly to come. The display will open Feb. 20, […]
Duane Hicks How much councillors are paid to attend meetings, and which meetings qualify as out-of-town ones and which don’t, are subjects that will be reviewed in the next few months in a new subcommittee headed by Mayor Roy Avis. During a special committee of the whole meeting yesterday, the […]
Staff The Rainy River District School Board will hold its regular monthly meeting tonight at 7 p.m. at Robert Moore School here. The agenda for the meeting includes: •the Recognition of Excellence presented to F.H. Huffman School for its ongoing efforts to teach the “Character in Action” theme for February, […]
Mitch Calvert Muskie Donovan Cousineau battled St. John’s Ravenscourt Eagles’ forward Jason Crowley for a face-off during semi-final action Saturday morning at the annual John Taylor Piper Classic tournament in Winnipeg. The Muskies won the game 4-1 but then lost to Oak Park 4-2 in the final later that day.
Peggy Revell Katelyn Bruyere, Rachel Anderson, and Emma Cole put their own individual decorating twist on postcards during PA Day activities at the Fort Frances Museum on Friday. The theme for the day was “Fun with Stamps and Letters.”
Duane Hicks Pat Herr of International Travel Services, left, and local Kiwanis Club president Angie Korzinski drew the “Trip of the Month” winner for February there this morning. Ron Yellowega of Fort Frances will be heading to sunny Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic—a trip valued at $4,000.
