Another week, another win for the Vianets in Fort Frances men’s basketball league action Monday night. The Vianets were led by John Sivonen’s 31-point effort in their 77-72 win over the Muskies. Pacing the offensive attack for the Muskies was Garnet Cornell, who finished with 22 points. Vianets improved to […]
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Thirteen members of the Border Skating Club attended the Thunder Bay Open on Feb. 29-March 2, bringing home 19 medals in all. The competition also attracted skaters from Emo, Atikokan, Kenora, Dryden, Eagle Lake, Wawa, Ignace, Sioux Lookout, Barrie, and host Thunder Bay. Here are the results for the Border […]
Given their love of cooking, the mother/daughter team of Peggy Johnson and Rhonda Howells recently decided to start up a catering business in town, which they named “Cooking with Care.” “We want people to know that quality is more important than quantity . . . . And that we take […]
Work carries on at the site of the new AbitibiBowater biomass boiler, with the project still on track to fire up this October, mill manager John Harrison said yesterday. “We’re on schedule,” he said. “The height of the building you see now is as tall as the building’s going to […]
Geoff Gillon, regional economic development manager of the Rainy River Future Development Corp., recently was elected president of the Economic Developer Council of Ontario for the next one-year term. “I’m looking forward to it. It’ll be exciting working with people from across the province,” Gillon enthused, though noting the new […]
In response to the controversial situation stemming from an Internet-posted video disrespecting the traditional pow-wow, Couchiching First Nation hosted a healing ceremony at its multi-use facility yesterday. Co-organizer Gilbert Smith explained the purpose of the ceremony was for both sides to come together to begin to heal as one community. […]
Town delegates found out they’ll have to foot more of the construction costs for the new library and technology centre here than previously hoped after speaking with Northern Development and Mines minister Michael Gravelle last week in Toronto. “We were requesting funding for the library and technology centre that we […]
Students at J.W. Walker are settling into their new temporary classrooms this week after an explosion and fire at their school in the early-morning hours of last Thursday. Fortunately, the fire damage was limited to the gymnasium, with water damage confined to the floors of the lower level of the […]
The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres are hoping for a sea of white for this weekend’s crucial home series with the Schreiber Diesels to close out the SIJHL’s regular season. The Sabres and Diesel are locked in a fourth-place tie with 50 points (the Diesel will earn two points tonight for […]
The 2007-08 season has been quite a ride for the Muskie boys’ hockey team. Through 46 games to date, they’ve compiled a 36-10 record, including a gaudy 15-1 mark in NorWOSSA regular-season and playoff action. The black-and-gold certainly wasted little time last weekend dispatching the Dryden Eagles in a two-game […]
The 2008 Ontario Winter Games began today in Collingwood and surrounding communities, and Rainy River District is represented on several fronts. For Bantam curler Tirzah Keffer, the opportunity to go arose unexpectedly several weeks back at the Northern Ontario playdowns here in Fort Frances. The winning girls’ team (representing the […]
They began as a small group of soccer enthusiasts competing on the playgrounds at Sixth Street School back in the early 1990s. Slowly but surely, however, under the tutelage of soccer proponents like Jim Curr, Gord Witherspoon, the late Struchan Gilson, Rick and Dale Chambers, James Dobie (and many others), […]
