My daughter, Louise, and I spent two-and-a-half weeks in April with her son, Grant, his wife, Tara, and their three children in Bathurst, northern New Brunswick, returning home on Good Friday. We found a lot of snow, about four feet, near the coast (Tetagouche) but not so much in other […]
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Dixie McDonald was in seventh heaven until her game went the other direction. The local bowler was in good shape after seven games at the TSN Pins Game roll-offs in Thunder Bay on Saturday, sitting in second place and just 100 pins out of the lead. But some late difficulties […]
Spring usually accentuates the colour green, but gold and bronze were more the style of the Northwest Tae Kwon Do team. Under the guidance of instructor Ken Anderson, the Fort Frances martial arts club raked in 10 medals during the Can-Am Games in Winnipeg on April 26. The 14-member squad […]
The benefits have been worth the wait for Lindsay Swerhun. The 14-year-old disabled athlete, along with four other Fort Frances participants and two more from International Falls, is thrilled to be able to take part in the weekly special needs gymnastics program, which runs every Sunday from 2-3:30 p.m. at […]
A gruelling stretch of games, and an unfortunate finale, weren’t enough to douse the boundless energy of a basketball team that was just happy to be on the court. The Fort Frances regional girls’ squad put their noses to the grindstone at the nine-team Basketball Manitoba Juvenile ‘B’ girls’ regional […]
It will be tea and crumpets for Alex Parent while Boyd Badiuk’s menu will be southern fried. The two Aquanauts are heading off to some big-time events at two separate far-off destinations this summer after being chosen to a pair of swimming’s elite groups. Parent is bound for Sheffield, England […]
One team’s relegation is another team’s devastation. After winning the Winnipeg high school soccer invitational tournament last year, an untimely loss left the Fort Frances Muskies playing for the ‘C’ division title at the same event last weekend. And they vented their anger at their fate by manhandling Tec Voc […]
They are the hunted, but the Muskie boys’ and girls’ soccer teams don’t plan to be running scared this season. Both teams will be defending their respective NorWOSSA crowns from last year while the boys also can boast a silver medal from the NWOSSAA showdown, which earned them a trip […]
Evaluating one’s own success comes down to the height of one’s expectations. “No one we knew thought we’d make it that far,” said Natalie Desjardins, who teamed with older sister, Simone, to make a stirring run to the quarter-final round in girls’ doubles action at the all-Ontario badminton championships in […]
With the season’s last snowfall hopefully fallen, the time for some springtime “Fore!”-play is at hand once again. Big hitters and prodigious putters alike have come out of hibernation for another season of swings, shanks, and sand trap saves out at Kitchen Creek Golf Club, which officially began play April […]
Debbie Murray wasn’t asking for the moon, but she was happy with what she saw in the Starz. The Fort Frances Cyclones coach and seven of her troops were brothers and sisters in arms with three other regional clubs as part of the Northwestern Ontario Starz squad that competed at […]
Al Herback probably could fly around the world with as many frequent flyer miles as he has racked up. There’s just one problem. “I never get to use them because the times I want to go anywhere, the seats are already all booked,” laughed the Kincaid, Sask. native who has […]
