It’s time to find out whether Jared Catholique-Bruyere’s remarkable story this season will have a happy ending. The 16-year-old local judoist has pieced together a monumental season—and takes his unbeaten record to Toronto this week for the junior national championships running tomorrow through Saturday. “I’m just concentrating on keeping it […]
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The Muskie senior football team will have to be on their ‘A’ game this season—the first half of which will be spent away from the green grass of home. Under the Winnipeg High School Football League’s schedule, released this past week, the black-and-gold won’t host a game until Oct. 3. […]
On a sun-soaked day, the Devlin ball diamond was overcome by Shade. Charlotte Bazylewski and Ron Kellar each had four RBIs as the Fort Frances squad racked up nine runs in each of the first two innings to dump Up North (Devlin) 23-10 in the ‘A’ final of a slo-pitch […]
A one-time only event deserved one breath-taking finish. The foursome of Jeff Ogden, Rick Sekulich, Rob Crowe, and Bryce Coyle won in a playoff over Robert Atatise, Robert Atatise Jr., Scott Bridgeman, and Steve Pruys to capture The Great Centennial Golf Tournament on Sunday at Kitchen Creek. Ogden and his […]
Her favourite player’s on-ice days are behind him, but Heather Ash has a promising future as a bona fide goalie. The 21-year-old Fort Frances native watched her NHL hero, Patrick Roy, hang up the skates for good when he announced his retirement last month. But Ash is only just getting […]
Ray Bedard said he wasn’t going all the way to the land of the leprechaun to come home unlucky and empty-handed. He proved to be a man of his word. Bedard, 44, was up to the task of competing against the best of the best, winning a silver medal in […]
Anne Sullivan transferred to Emo from Thamesville as the new manager of the LCBO in June, 1983, replacing Jimmy James. Having started with the LCBO in 1979, she was one of the first 10 female managers for the LCBO. Sullivan first lived at the home of Marcel DeGagne, who at […]
The gymnasium at Our Lady of the Way School was filled for the graduation exercise of the Class of 2003 last Monday evening. The facility was decorated with blue and white streamers and balloons (the school’s colours). This year’s Grade 8 graduates were Chad Blackburde, Chantelle Bragg, William Brandon, Curtis […]
The Christian Reformed Church in Emo will be hosting a homecoming weekend next Saturday and Sunday (July 12-13) in conjunction with its 50th anniversary celebrations. Saturday’s activities will begin with breakfast from 9-11 a.m. Then there will be a welcome by the council and the dedication of five local trees—one […]
Three Grade 4/5 students—Marissa Smith, Paige Vien, and Jordan Ogden—spent weeks creating a storybook to honour a retiring teacher at Donald Young School in Emo. Helen Mose is retiring after spending many years in the Grade 2 classroom. The story is about a fictitious former student of Mrs. Mose who […]
Another school year has come to an end and elementary schools across the district took time late last month to recognize the accomplishments of their top students. Crossroads School in Devlin invested two days for the occasion—and there was a lot of hardware handed out. On June 23, the Grade […]
Tara Ogier and Richard Cross of Winnipeg were the big winners in the Emo Walleye Classic raffle which was drawn Saturday evening, taking home the first prize of a Crestliner/Yamaha boat, motor, and trailer package from Tompkins Hardware. A computer package from KP Computers—the second prize—was won by Janet Lambert […]
