The “Kings of None” are making their tournament debut as a major nighttime entertainment act during the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship here next weekend. The group of four local men includes Dave Byrnes (lead singer/guitar), Tyler Gagne (lead guitar), Ted DeBenetti (bass guitar), and the band’s drummer and […]
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The Town of Fort Frances is looking to round up 50 brawny folks to help win the title of cross-border tug-of-war champions this Friday at 12:15 p.m. at the Sorting Gap Marina. Coun. Rick Wiedenhoeft, who is organizing the event on this side of the border with the town’s […]
The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres’ roster building has officially begun. The expansion SIJHL hockey club has signed their first Fort Frances native, forward Kyle Turgeon, and made their first trade to bring in forward Ray Pressacco from the Swan Valley Stampeders of the MJHL in exchange for future considerations. […]
The Rainy River District Regional Abattoir Inc. committee has revamped its guidelines in order to make memberships financially feasible and to gain supply commitments in order to build an abattoir in the area. “It seemed there were a number of smaller producers who would like to support the abattoir, […]
The Ministry of Children and Youth Services will be asking the public for their opinions on the proposed youth detention facility at an information session next Tuesday (July 24). The meeting will take place from 7-8 p.m. at the Civic Centre. The public is encouraged to attend and learn more […]
The Northwestern Health Unit and the Salvation Army food bank here have partnered up in an effort to help fill the shelves at the food bank and as well to be able to provide healthy food choice alternatives for the less fortunate. Together, they are encouraging local […]
Devlin’s annual slo-pitch tournament was renamed on Saturday, adding the late Gus Lindberg’s name alongside fellow umpire Kingsley Downs to become the Kingsley Downs and Gus Lindberg Memorial Slo-pitch Tournament. Devlin Slo-pitch League president Ron Kellar said the name change had been proposed at a meeting to honour the […]
The annual Senior Men’s Open at Kitchen Creek last Wednesday saw an overnight changing of the guard as winner Dennis “Poncho” Krantz was disqualified the following morning, leaving Rob Badiuk in top spot. Krantz picked up his ball instead of tapping in a short putt, which, by the rules, […]
The Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, already a host to anglers from far-off locales, will be welcoming a pair from Pennsylvania, Walter and Chad Gasiorek, as first-time participants. “We’re looking forward to coming up to Fort Frances,” Walter said, taking a break from packing for the trip. The two […]
Canada’s New Government is enhancing measures to more quickly eliminate bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) from Canadian cattle and to protect producers from the potential consequences of receiving contaminated feed. Effective July 12, 2007, certain cattle tissues that are capable of transmitting BSE, known as specified risk material (SRM), […]
Carly Pruys, left, Adam Egan, Taylor Cawston, Cameron Cawston and Jonah Cawston, enjoyed tasty ice cream cones yesterday at the Sorting Gap Marina. With more warm and sunny weather on the way, it’s likely the store there will be selling more ice cream in the near future. —Amanda Roy photo
No new fires were reported in Northwestern Ontario in the past 24 hours, but the forest fire hazard on the rise as sunny weather begins to dry the forest out. Dry sunny weather, forecast for the remainder of the week, is expected to result in a marked increase […]
