Staff The Fort Frances Aquanauts Swim Club came home with a haul of 34 personal best times from the Kenora Swimming Sharks’ annual invitational meet over the weekend. “Everybody came out and had lots of best times, and really good swims,” head coach Dawnn Taylor enthused. Their results were as […]
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Mitch Calvert Fort Frances Aquanaut Donovan Taylor hauled in a trio of medals at the Swim International meet Nov. 7-9 in Brantford. The 14-year-old swam in eight events but earned his best finish in the 200m backstroke, clocking a time of 2:16:13 in the final to nab the silver medal. […]
Staff Four local YBC bowlers and their adult partners competed against other bowlers from across the region Sunday at the Northern Ontario Family Twosome zone roll-offs in Atikokan. In the Bowlasaurus division, Mya Guenette and Norm Guenette took third place while Jonelle Haas and Teressa Darrah took second among the […]
Mitch Calvert Getting pucks past Ryan Faragher of late has been about as difficult a task as convincing kids that broccoli is good for them. Faragher is stopping nearly everything lately, and has been a huge key to the Fort Frances Jr. Sabres’ success of late. He recorded his second […]
Duane Hicks The local Community Control Group (CCG) sprang into action this morning as part of Emergency Management Ontario’s “Trillium Response 2008” after a simulated “ice storm” declared by Environment Canada earlier this week escalated into a critical situation. The CCG, including members of police, fire, and ambulance services, town […]
Jessica George It was Lillian Kellar’s worst nightmare, but it was her dream to see it documented properly for the sake of all she lost—and for all that everyone else lost. After the tragic fire that claimed 17 lives in Dance Township on Thanksgiving Day back in 1938, Kellar wanted […]
Mitch Calvert Getting pucks past Ryan Faragher of late has been about as difficult a task as convincing kids that broccoli is good for them. Faragher is stopping nearly everything lately, and has been a huge key to the Fort Frances Jr. Sabres’ success of late. He recorded his second […]
Peggy Revell Fort Frances will be one of two sites in Canada where a pilot project that links aboriginal high school students with mentorships in accounting firms will be launched. “The thrust of it is that, hopefully, more of aboriginal students will decide that they want to go into the […]
Duane Hicks With the goal still being to put the project out to tender in January, with construction to start in April, the building committee turned over its final report on the new Fort Frances Public Library and Technology Centre to the library board on Friday. Board chair Joyce Cunningham […]
Peggy Revell “Flimsy” and “absurd” are some of the words local resident David Kircher is using to describe the Rainy River District School Board’s answers following his presentation to the board earlier this month over the hundreds of thousands of dollars that went missing from Fort Frances High School over […]
Peggy Revell District residents once again can help make the holidays a brighter time for children in need as the “Adopt an Angel” campaign is underway for another year. “This is our sixth year running the ‘Adopt an Angel’ program,” noted Jacquee Loerzel of Family & Children’s Services in Fort […]
Paige Desmond Shift work is a necessary part of business. Health care, resource industries, policing, and other services require a 24-hour schedule. According to Statistics Canada, in 2005 roughly 28 percent, or 4.1 million of the 14.6 million Canadians employed, worked something other than a typical day shift of 9 […]
