With the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s Home & Leisure Show coming up April 27-28 at the Memorial Sports Centre, organizers are busy lining up the exhibitors and activities that make it an annual success. Chamber office manager Dawn Booth said this morning that about 40 exhibitors have signed up […]
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FORT FRANCES—Service Canada has received permission to offer passport receiving services in Fort Frances—and expects it to be up and running at month’s end. “All of the preliminary checking and verification to expedite faster processing of passports, and eliminate the need for people to travel to either Winnipeg or Thunder […]
Tiffany Whalen, left, and Shanna Ewald, two peer leaders with the local Youth Action Alliance, showed off their new anti-smoking display at Fort France High School yesterday. The students made a large cross-section of a cigarette filled with shredded paper, colour-coded with a list of chemicals—some toxic—found in cigarettes.—Melanie Béchard […]
Chelsey DeGagne thanked the Easter Bunny for the gift of sweet treats as Laurel Basaraba looked on yesterday at the Fort Frances Nursery School. —Melanie Béchard photo
The Muskie badminton program enjoyed strong results at the NorWOSSA qualifier held yesterday at Fort High, with 11 members advancing to the league finals next Wednesday in Kenora. In the junior girls’ singles division, Muskie Heidi Emond took first place while teammate Shawnee Morriseau finished third. Meanwhile, Brooke Paterson and […]
Catchy tunes, combined with superb skills and fantastically-choreographed routines, made this year’s Border Skating Club ice show “High School Musical” a big hit over the weekend. Of course, the appearance of 2007 Canadian silver medallist Chris Mabee may have been a selling point, too. “It was a really great show, […]
The Muskie boys’ hockey team wrapped up the season with its annual awards banquet Monday night at the Adventure Inn. Family, friends, and representatives from the Blueline Club gathered to honour the team for what was another strong season. The black-and-gold finished with an impressive 47-11-1 record, which included a […]
FORT FRANCES—A big fish is emerging from the Fort Frances Aquanauts Swim Team. Twelve-year-old Donovan Taylor turned more than a few heads over the weekend with a series of remarkable performances at the Victor Davis Memorial Cup in Guelph, Ont. His list of accomplishments reads like a veritable laundry list […]
Hockey players of all ages took home awards from the Emo-Devlin-Barwick Minor Hockey Association’s annual banquet last Thursday night upstairs at the Emo/La Vallee Community Centre. The Robert (Bob) Steele Memorial Trophy, acknowledging the most versatile player in the Midget division, was presented to Terry Carmody while the Doug Wilson […]
Vianets completed a near perfect season Monday night with their second-straight Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League title. The top team during the regular season, Vianets (14-1) earned a hard-fought 61-48 win over a very game La Place Rendez-Vous squad (11-4). “Obviously we’re feeling great,” Vianets’ captain Adrian Chapman enthused moments […]
After two months of waiting, the Sunset Country contingent is ready to roll at the Northern Ontario five-pin bowling championships this weekend in Timmins. Six bowlers from Plaza Lanes are set to compete alongside their peers from Dryden and Kenora for the right to represent Northern Ontario at the national […]
The Fort Frances Aquanauts hit a bump in the road at the Northwestern Ontario Open over the weekend in Kenora. After posting a bevy of personal best times at meets all winter, the Aquanauts were forced to endure a weekend in which consistency was difficult to achieve. “There seemed to […]
