Football can be described as orchestrated chaos. With every down, each player is given an assignment, with a starting point and a destination. And when they work together, a football team can be as precise as an orchestra performing a Mozart classic. But when they aren’t, they can be as […]
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If you were given one chance to live out your childhood dream, would you take it or let it pass you by? When that situation arose for Sean Douglas, it didn’t take long for the former Fort Frances resident to contemplate the question, and in the end, he chose to […]
How does it sound when you’re told that you are still undefeated after five games? “It sounds so good to hear that,” Andrew Dault said after the Borderland Thunder beat the Dryden Ice Dogs 6-3 last night at the Ice for Kids Arena, which extended the team’s unbeaten streak to […]
Just an exhibition game? Don’t tell that to the Manitoba Moose and Hamilton Bulldogs, who will be squaring off in a so-called “exhibition game” here Friday night. The Moose and Bulldogs, who play in the North Division of the American Hockey League, still are in the process of finalizing their […]
The Borderland Thunder will try to extend their unbeaten streak to four games tonight when they face the Dryden Ice Dogs at the Ice for Kids Arena. The puck drops at 7:30 p.m. The Thunder (3-0-1) are coming off a sweep of the K&A Golden Hawks (Thunder Bay) here Friday […]
The Rainy River District School Board will hear a presentation tonight on its various partnerships with First Nations communities and agencies across the district in an effort to help aboriginal students succeed in school. Superintendent of Education Terry Ellwood and Fort Frances High School vice-principal Brent Tookenay will outline the […]
The pilot of a float plane that crashed yesterday afternoon on Prospect Bay of Rainy Lake suffered only minor injuries, Fort Frances OPP reported this morning. Trevor Lorteau, 32, of Sioux Lookout was approaching Lakeland Aviation around 3:15 p.m. when he encountered power lines, police said. The Beech Craft model […]
The inaugural meeting of the “Communities in Bloom” committee is slated for tonight at 7 p.m. at the Civic Centre and anyone interested in helping beautify Fort Frances is welcome to attend. Helen Crook, secretary of the Fort Frances Horticultural Society, said yesterday afternoon there’s no formal agenda. But some […]
Three teens will appear in court Oct. 12 to face charges related to a series of damaged mailboxes in Alberton back in July, the OPP reported this morning. An 18-year-old Couchiching male was charged with five counts of mischief under $5,000 while a Fort Frances male, also 18, faces four […]
A Couchiching man was killed and two others were injured in a roll-over accident Saturday around 6 p.m. on Pipe Lake Road, the OPP reported this morning. The driver, Sandford Bruyere, 38, of Couchiching, was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Passenger Blake Mainville […]
The town’s “Citizen of the Year” selection committee is asking the public to start thinking about individuals who have made a difference in our community and nominate them for the 2004 award. Nomination forms are now available at the information desk at the Civic Centre. About 30 letters requesting nominations […]
The Muskie varsity ‘A’ football team lost 29-3 to the St. Paul’s Crusaders in Winnipeg on Friday. The loss leaves the black-and-gold with a 1-3 record in the ‘AA’ conference of the Winnipeg High School Football League, scoring 38 points over those four games while allowing 101. The Muskies’ next […]
