The Town of Fort Frances has set its timetable for the 2005 budget process, with a public meeting slated to kick things off this Monday (Sept. 27). In a report to council, Fort Frances CAO Mark McCaig said the timetable, approved by council last week, “allows for a public meeting […]
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The Friends of the Fort Frances Public Library held its first meeting of the season on Sept. 16. This group of library supporters will be starting their fundraising activities with their second-annual tag day on Friday, Oct. 1. Volunteers will be at various locations throughout town during the day. Please […]
Carrying on the recent tradition of dedicating the annual Terry Fox Run to a local family that has dealt with cancer, this year’s fundraiser was dedicated to the family of Herb and Shirley Cridland. A dozen members of the Cridland family came out for the “Marathon of Hope” on Sunday, […]
“It blew away all of our expectations.” That’s the only way Bill Liggins of the local Voyageur Lions Club could describe the first-annual “Drive-Thru Breakfast” fundraiser it held last Thursday morning at the Tim Hortons parking lot here. “We started at 6 a.m. and we supposed to go until 10 […]
It was déjà-vu at the Fort Frances Times’ “Great Chili Cook-off” last Friday, with both winning teams from last year’s event taking the same titles this time around. Dr. Mike Gerstner, Sherry Armstrong, and Stacey McQuaker of the Fort Frances Dental Centre once again captured the judges’ award for the […]
As a follow-up to the July 7 signing of the historic harvesting rights agreement between the Métis Nation of Ontario and the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Sunset Country Métis hosted an information session here Friday night to update area Métis. MNO president Tony Belcourt told the roughly 100 people […]
“Have you ever just lost it on someone?” I asked Chris Bazinet, a fourth-degree black belt in the martial art form of Wado Kai. “I’ve never abused my martial arts,” Bazinet responded. “Oh, come on, not even once?” he was asked again. “Never,” he sternly repeated. “Have you ever come […]
Jim McMahon and the rest of the coaches for the Muskie girls’ hockey team had to do something last week they haven’t done for quite a while. Make cuts. That statement may sound like a negative, and of course it is, but positives also can be drawn from it. In […]
The Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team went winless in four matches at the 10-team Super 8 Volleyball Classic in Kenora last weekend. The black-and-gold went 0-3 in round-robin play, then lost to Dryden in the first round of the playoffs. All four Muskie court teams open the NorWOSSA season tomorrow […]
On Oct. 3, at the clubhouse of the Kitchen Creek Golf Course, a meeting will be held to decide on the future corporate structure of these entities. The meeting is open to all shareholders of these entities and the present Kitchen Creek Golf Course board of directors. Shareholders do not […]
Numbers don’t lie, and if you look closely at them, you can uncover the stories within the game. This certainly was the case in the clash between the Muskies and Grant Park Pirates here last Friday. Yes, the Pirates won the game 29-17 to leave the black-and-gold 0-2 on the […]
Dryland conditioning. Say these words to a hockey player and their entire bodies will quiver, the hairs on their forearms will extend, and their heart rate will begin to rise. But like the air in your tires, off-rink conditioning plays a crucial role in developing a player—and also is instrumental […]
