Jo-Ann Waytowich showed off the feather boa she made as she portrayed “Ivanka” during her skit at the third-annual Women’s Health Symposium, which ran Saturday at Fort Frances High School. It featured a number of guest speakers and booths on a variety of topics, and drew more than 450 people.
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Jade Whitefield and her 17-month-old son, Jackson, admired flowers yesterday afternoon at the annual Mother’s Day plant sale at the Community Activity Centre (old RCMP building). The sale continues today until 7 p.m. and again tomorrow from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Don’t forget Sunday is Mother’s Day.
Sharla MacKinnon’s Grade 5 class, along with Rick Huisman, Bill Mueller, and Mike Gurski of Hydro One, posed with the tree that was donated to J.W. Walker School by Hydro One in celebration of Arbour Week.
The Muskie girls’ soccer team turned in a strong showing in Dryden on Wednesday, beating the Kenora Broncos 1-0 and then blanking the host Eagles 2-0. Erin Kaemingh was the black-and-gold’s lone scorer in their game against Kenora while Lauren Pierce and Kelsey Quibell each hit the twine versus Dryden. […]
The Muskie girls’ soccer team turned in a strong showing in Dryden on Wednesday, beating the Kenora Broncos 1-0 and then blanking the host Eagles 2-0. Erin Kaemingh was the black-and-gold’s lone scorer in their game against Kenora while Lauren Pierce and Kelsey Quibell each hit the twine versus Dryden. […]
There are still tickets available for tonight’s second-annual “Stand Up for Mental Health” comedy show. David Granirer, the founder of Stand Up for Mental Health, is emceeing the show, which starts at 7 p.m. at La Place Rendez-Vous. “I think when you see people on stage doing stand-up comedy on […]
Students in Sharla MacKinnon’s Grade 5 class at J.W. Walker School here had the opportunity to learn about the significance of “Arbour Week” yesterday as Bill Mueller, Rick Huisman, and Mike Gurski of Hydro One visited the classroom. Although Arbour Week in Ontario ran from April 25-May 4, the students […]
A temporary detour was set up at Scott Street and Bulter Avenue this morning as a crew from Bay City Contracting tore up the road to replace a water valve. Motorists can expect to see temporary road closures through next week as crews will be working to replace a total […]
Wednesday Galusha put the finishing touches on a bouquet at Fort Floral here yesterday. She has noticed many people are purchasing flowers this week, although she thinks there will be a big rush on Saturday—the day before Mother’s Day.
The skeet range at the Fort Frances Sportsmen’s Club property by Frog Creek was a busy place Tuesday evening. Len Noonan and Rick Johnson both had perfect rounds of “25.” Noonan also turned in rounds of 22 and 21 while Johnson’s other two rounds totalled 20 and 21. Other top […]
FORT FRANCES—The town discussed the viability of repairing, replacing, or removing the government dock at Pither’s Point during a public meeting Wednesday night at the Civic Centre. Remedial repairs and upgrades are slated to cost $770,000 while replacing the entire dock would cost an estimated 1.5 million. Removing the dock […]
FORT FRANCES—While there will be areas of open water on Rainy Lake for Minnesota anglers on their walleye-opener this Saturday, the North Arm of Rainy Lake remains iced in. While it all depends on the good graces of Mother Nature, at least two local pilots were hopeful “ice-out” would occur […]
