Manitoba anglers Terry McClymont and Jaret Horbaiuk took home the top prize of $5,000 yesterday at Lake Despair Lodge’s sixth-annual “Castin’ for Cash” live release bass tournament. McClymont and Horbaiuk netted a two-day total combined weigh in of 24.86 pounds; 12.58 pounds on Saturday and 12.28 pounds on Sunday. Day […]
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Town council voted in favour of a bridge financing agreement with the Kiwanis skate park committee to help them pay off some $107,000 in outstanding fees. Under the agreement, the town will pay the outstanding invoices to contractors, and the Kiwanis Club and skate park committee will continue fundraising activities […]
RRDFL regular season play takes a break this week and fans will be treated to the annual All-Star game in Rainy River tonight at 7 p.m. Rosters for both the ‘Aces’ and ‘Deuces’ were announced Monday. Currently sitting atop the RRDFL standings, Sight & Sound (12-2) led all teams with […]
Jim Cumming, chair of the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, presented Mayor Dan Onichuk with a plaque recognizing the Town of Fort Frances as a 12-year sponsor of the bass tournament. Cumming also gave council a brief rundown of new activities at this year’s FFCBC, which runs July 23-29. —Duane […]
While the Kiwanis skate park was completed last fall and has seen plenty of use by local youth ever since, a substantial bill for the work remains outstanding. As such, the Kiwanis skate park committee and the Town of For Frances have been talking over several months to come up […]
Edward Jones ranks highest in customer satisfaction with full-service investors in Canada, with top ratings from clients in five of six drivers that determine overall satisfaction, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2006 Canadian Full Service Investor Satisfaction Study (SM). In the inaugural survey, the firm received the highest […]
Manitoba anglers Terry Mclymont and Jaret Horbaiuk took home the top prize of $5,000 yesterday at Lake Despair Lodge’s sixth-annual “Castin’ for Cash” live release bass tournament. Mclymont and Horbaiuk netted a two-day total combined weigh in of 24.86 pounds; 12.58 pounds on Saturday and 12.28 pounds on Sunday. Day […]
More than 100 supporters from across Canada and the United States will arrive in Grassy Narrows, Ontario today for a week-long Earth Justice Gathering to demand respect for Indigenous rights and protection for the endangered Boreal Forest. Throughout the week, Grassy Narrows First Nation community leaders and environmental and social […]
Manitoba anglers Jaret Horbaiuk (left) and Terry McLymont took home the top prize of $5000 for winning the Castin’ for Cash Live Release Bass Tournament this past weekend. Horbaiuk and McLymont finished the two-day tournament with a combined weight of 24.86 pounds. —Alex Cruickshank photo
FORT FRANCES—After more than a month of monitoring for signs of West Nile virus, no birds submitted to the Northwestern Health Unit for testing have come back positive so far. Al Mathers, environmental health officer with the health unit, said a few ravens and crows from both the Kenora and […]
Youngsters are invited to get revved up about reading this summer in the Fort Frances Public Library’s “Driven to Read” program. The library once again is offering its summer reading program for kids aged three and up—anyone who can read or listen to a book read to them by others. […]
Shortly after 3 a.m. today, the Fort Frances OPP received a report of a vehicle being operated in an erratic manner on Scott Street. The vehicle was located by police and a 37-year-old Alberton Township man subsequently was arrested and charged with operation of a motor vehicle with a blood […]
