The Fort Frances Canadians Midget ‘AA’ team went undefeated in all five of their games at the Breezy Point Icefest tournament in Pequot Falls, Mn. The Canadians captured the tournament title thanks to a 6-1 victory over host Pequot Falls High School on Sunday. Kirk Petrin and Matt Beck each […]
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More fans, more goals, more spirit, and, of course, more wins. So what happened to the Muskie girls’ hockey team to put them atop the NorWOSSA standings for the first time ever? “The girls are more comfortable and they have more experience,” noted head coach Lynn Kellar. “They know what […]
Players for the local Hopper’s Bruins may have missed their calling—given their 18-15 victory over the NHL “Legends” in a no-contact affair at the Ice for Kids Arena last Thursday night. But with fundraising for local minor hockey and the 2006 OFSAA organizing committee being the main reason behind the […]
For most 22-year-old girls, to pick up and move their lives to New York City would be like living the life of Carrie Bradshaw on “Sex and the City.” Or, in the case of Fort Frances native Christen Thomson, it’s more like the life of Annika Sorenstam on Golf and […]
Monica Hanzuk, left, and Jean Boileau admired a basket, donated by June Keddie, full of everything you’d need for a winter picnic to the 11th-annual “Spirit of Christmas” on Sunday night at La Place Rendez-Vous. The event brought in about $12,000, which is split between the local branch of the […]
Mason Galusha, 13, spent his morning shovelling out the driveway in front of his home on Third Street West yesterday. A total of eight inches (20 cm) got dumped on Borderland earlier this week—the first real snowfall yet this year. Luckily, there’s only flurries in the forecast for the next […]
Jillian Armstrong, six, showed off her “turtle” constructed of patterns and different shapes at the Esso family math program at the Emo Toy Library and Resource Centre last week, as her father, Murray, looked on. –Heather Ogilvie photo
Scott Walsh played Ebeneezer Scrooge and Justin Anderson the Ghost of Christmas Future in a performance of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” by the Grade 7/8 French Immersion class at St. Francis School last night. The performance was in support of the Holy Childhood Association. —Melanie Béchard photo
Young Trey Beninger, three, is at the first stage of his future career as a Toronto Maple Leaf, skating circles in the CanSkate One class at the Ice for Kids Arena here yesterday evening. —Jenni Condon photo
More than a dozen district residents returned home Saturday from a four-day bus trip to Regina, Sask. where they attended the annual Canadian Western Agribition—one of North America’s largest agricultural marketplaces. “It went really well,” enthused Angela Halvorsen, a business investment officer with the Rainy River Future Development Corp., which […]
The federal government’s forestry package released last week is a good first step in alleviating the economic pressure on Canadian companies suffering from U.S. softwood lumber duties, which will, in turn, help the pulp and paper industry, according to the Ontario Forestry Coalition. “It was a good, all-round package,” said […]
The ballot for the Thunder Bay-Rainy River riding in the Jan. 23 federal election will look remarkably similar to the one voters filled out just 17 months ago. Four of the six candidates who ran in June, 2004 have confirmed they are throwing their hats into the ring once again. […]
