The Town of Fort Frances has joined cities and townships across Ontario in proclaiming March as “Red Cross Month.” The Red Cross serves more than 700 residents in the Fort Frances area with the help of more than 25 volunteers. March is a chance to celebrate our work at home […]
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FORT FRANCES—District leaders and business people planning to attend “Community Summit II” have until Friday (March 2) to register. Following up on the inaugural community summit held here back in January, 2005, this second one is slated for this coming Tuesday (March 6) at La Place Rendez-Vous—with the focus again […]
The International Joint Commission has issued a supplementary order for emergency regulation of the level of Rainy Lake and other boundary waters in the Rainy Lake watershed, effective Feb. 27, in light of the severe drought conditions that have persisted for the past eight months and which may continue this […]
Jayne Wyder, second from right, of Jayne’s TLC celebrated her 25th anniversary this morning with an open house. Celebrating with her are her staff, from left, April Davis, Cory Shypit, Krissy Myers, and Shari Humphrey. Jayne’s TLC will be offering specials on products and services throughout March to mark the […]
“Howie Mandel” (Chad Hughes) urged Kent Seguin to pick a case Sunday evening during the “Deal or No Deal” game that was part of the Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s “Offical Oscar Party” at the Memorial Sports Centre. Seguin won a massage from Rainy Lake Massage Therapy Clinic. The top […]
Lindsay Lagman, a landscape architect with Hilderman, Thomas, Frank and Cram, left, chatted with Margaret Sedgwick about plans to relocate the Lookout Tower to near the Sorting Gap Marina as part of Phase Two of the heritage tourism project poised to get underway this spring. Project details were on display […]
Marina Gerber, left, Rachel Lehmann, and Petra Gerber performed a few songs from Switzerland during a presentation to the Emo Community Country Club on Thursday. —Heather Ogilvie photo
Members of the “The Magically Hip” performed their “Just Say Moe” show to students from across the district yesterday at the Townshend Theatre to discourage kids from smoking. Here, with assistant Danielle, they talked about the many chemicals found in tobacco, including rat poison and ammonia.—Melanie Béchard photo
Judy LaBelle threw a rock during the ‘A’ final of the 54th Ladies Bonspiel at the Fort Frances Curling Club on Sunday afternoon. LaBelle’s rink cruised to a 7-0 win in five ends over Dana Kosowick’s team to capture the title.—Alex Cruickshank photo
Some losses are tougher to take than others. Local curler Raymond Roy found himself in prime position to advance to the final of the Northern Ontario senior men’s playdowns last weekend after jumping out to a 3-0 start. But the Fort Frances rink—also comprised of third Don DeBenedet, second Dave […]
Some lessons are best learned the hard way. The Muskie senior boys’ basketball team was swept in two-straight games by the Hammarskjold Vikings at the NWOSSAA playoffs over the weekend in Thunder Bay. The black-and-gold hung tough with the Vikings in the opening game of the best-of-three series Friday afternoon. […]
Rarely does a playoff series sweep generate concern for the winning team. However, there’s concern in the Muskies’ locker-room following their two-game sweep of the lowly Kenora Broncos in their best-of-three NorWOSSA semi-final showdown last weekend. Despite winning both games by handy margins—11-5 here Friday night and then 8-4 on […]
