The Border Skating Club held its annual awards banquet earlier this month at the Fort Frances Curling Club. Awards were presented as follows: •Agnes McEvoy Trophy—Chelsey Skirten; •Most Improved Primary Level Skaters—Emma Kunkel (dance), Kelli Cole (skills), and Hannah McLeod (free); •Most Dedicated Program Assistant—Sierra Cousineau, Erika Moffitt, and Chelsey […]
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Joey Galloway of Emo, the #01 Modified driver, attended the 2007 season-opener at Deer Creek Speedway in Spring Valley, Mn. (south of Rochester). Saturday (April 21) was a beautiful spring day, but with a very strong wind blowing at the race track. With a total car count of 104 in […]
The Fort Frances Badminton Club brought home two medals after competing in the Manitoba Junior Badminton Open in Winnipeg over the weekend. Kimika Alexander took silver in the under-13 girls’ singles event. Melissa Liew of IPP won gold (21-11, 21-6). And Erin Gustafson and Taylor Shouldice teamed up to capture […]
Energy Fitness Centre is holding its first-ever “5-K in May” on Saturday, May 5 starting at 8:30 a.m. at La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances. It’s a five-km walk/run open to all age groups, with proceeds being donated to the “Just Imagine” fundraiser to honour a pledge that was made […]
Bill Limerick, director of environmental health with the Northwestern Health Unit, organized a meeting Tuesday morning at the Emo Legion to discuss interim solutions for processing uninspected domestic meat in Rainy River District. Local producers, committee members, and area municipal leaders met with several health unit members, as well as […]
The rain held off for most of the day Saturday, brining people from across the district to Emo for its annual “Spring Fever Days” celebrations, which ran Thursday through Saturday. “It seems like it was really busy all over town,” noted Emo Chamber of Commerce president Colleen Vennechenko. “And the […]
Who says small communities aren’t full of fun activities? Devlin/La Vallee sure proves that to be untrue as several events are happening here in the next month. The first is an art show and sale at Crossroads School on Thursday, May 3. The students have been doing paintings with Fort […]
Fort Frances OPP officers have issued only two parking tickets in the first quarter of 2007—a far cry from the 171 in the first quarter last year. That’s just one of the statistics town council heard Monday night in the police services activity report for the first quarter of 2007 […]
The Fort Frances High School senior band and choir are busy getting ready for their 2007 concert tour to Prince Edward Island. Sixty-eight band members, 10 chaperones, and four bus drivers will make the 3,800-km round trip from April 27-May 6. Concerts are planned in Moncton, N.B., Summerside, P.E.I., and […]
Fort Frances OPP is seeking assistance from the public in solving a mischief. Sometime during the evening hours of Thursday, April 19 and the early-morning hours of Friday, April 20, suspects damaged several vehicles that were parked at West End Motors. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to […]
FORT FRANCES—Property owners in all classes will see a tax increase this year after town council passed the 2007 municipal budget at its regular meeting Monday night. The residential class will see a levy hike of 2.54 percent, which equals a total increase of $44.51 per $100,000 of assessment on […]
Children’s performers Mortal Coil put on their show “Lava and Bones” at the Townshend Theatre last night as part of the Kids & Company series. The show wrapped up the 2006/07 season. The Kids & Company entertainment series kicks off again Oct. 22 with The Blues Berries. —Melanie Béchard photo
