The local PeeWee ‘AA’ K of C Knights didn’t just visit Dryden’s house for a hockey tournament last weekend. They walked through the house with muddy feet, wiped them on the carpet, took over the remote control, and pirated the Laz-E-Boy recliner. There was no questioning the Knights’ dominance in […]
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A weekend excursion to Devlin was fruitful for the Atikokan Grade 8 boys’ and girls’ volleyball teams as they won their respective championships at the Crossroads Tornadoes invitational tournament, co-hosted by Crossroads School and Naicatchewenin. The boys’ squad outlasted five other teams to finish first in their round-robin pool, followed […]
Darryl Rollins and Kyle Botos felt right at home—even if their real home was two hours away. The Dryden pair took care of the competition at the annual Fort Frances Invitational bowling tournament at Plaza Lanes last weekend, with Rollins winning the scratch championship while Botos earned the pins over […]
It was like shovelling snow an hour before Hockey Night in Canada—the work has to get done, but everyone can’t wait for the fun to begin. The Fort Frances Midget ‘AA’ Canadians completed their stay in the “Red” Division of the Manitoba Eastman Midget League with a pair of workmanlike […]
This Christmas, you can remember a loved one and contribute to a good cause all at the same time. Tammi’s Flower Garden has a “Tree of Memories” in the store—decorated with handmade stocking ornaments—to help support the Alzheimer Society. “People can buy them in memory of someone they want to […]
The third-annual ManOMin Watershed Conference in International Falls last week not only attracted plenty of local attention, it brought in some of the most knowledgeable and well-known people in the environmental field. Case in point, the keynote speaker who kicked the whole thing off last Thursday morning at Rainy River […]
While several reports on improperly-sterilized medical instruments have created a stir in southern Ontario, there’s no cause for alarm here, says the CEO of Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc. “We checked our [infection control] procedures because we were ordered to by the Ministry of Health,” Wayne Woods noted Monday. “And […]
The latest report out of Queen’s Park regarding the Liberal government’s plan to introduce a province-wide smoking ban in all public places was greeted with mixed feelings by the Northwestern Health Unit. The McGuinty government announced earlier this week it intends to go forward with sweeping legislation, but that it […]
Ontario NDP leader and local MPP Howard Hampton called last Thursday’s throne speech a “vague and vacuous” document that proves the Liberal party will not live up to its campaign promises. “Basically, the throne speech is all about the promises they’re breaking,” Hampton said yesterday from Toronto. “Before the election, […]
Despite the fact the town has committed itself to keeping any non-budgeted expenditures to a bare minimum given its current financial woes, the outgoing council agreed at a special meeting Monday night to hire security to stop recent vandalism at the Memorial Sports Centre. And according to those who voted […]
A picture is worth a thousand words, and sometimes a little more. Eric Rude of Fort Frances recently was named winner of Pharmasave’s first amateur photo contest for his picture of sailboats on Sand Bay. The goal of the contest was to highlight some of the picturesque scenery around Fort […]
The drama students at Fort Frances High School are gearing up for another major production, this time a stage version of “The Beverly Hillbillies.” “Someone took the first episode of the show and adapted it to the stage,” FFHS drama teacher and director Willa Kunkel said. “It’s a really good […]
