FORT FRANCES—The Riverside Foundation for Health Care board of directors won’t see any new faces on it in the next year as no election has been slated for its annual meeting this coming Tuesday. “Our board is staying the same,” Foundation director Teresa Hazel said. “We have four members whose […]
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After fighting raging forest fires in Oregon since Aug. 7, including the “Sour Biscuit” blaze which at one point covered 157,000 hectares, the last of local MNR FireRanger crews returned home over the weekend. Harrold Boven, fire operations supervisor here, was among the last of the local firefighters to return […]
Rainy Lake Air Cadet Squadron #908 may be cleared for take-off soon as it hovers around the number of participants needed to start the program. More than 40 people showed up Wednesday night for registration at the Memorial Sports Centre. The group needs just 30 youths to join to start […]
Registration on Monday night for the upcoming curling season yielded 99 teams and roughly 400 curlers—down from the estimated 450 who came out of the hack last season. “Some people change their interests and want a break from curling,” Kathie Jackson, chair of the Fort Frances Curling Committee, speculated late […]
Byron Maggrah has issued a pre-season heads-up. The referee-in-chief for the Superior International Junior Hockey League has informed those wearing the striped shirts it is time to get tough on incidents of checking to the head by players when the league’s second season begins this Friday. “There will be growing […]
A close evaluation of the NorWOSSA junior boys’ volleyball league spotlights one undeniable fact: the margin for error is minimal. “We went from worst to first last year and this year, we could go from first to worst,” said Muskie coach Greg Ste. Croix of his defending NorWOSSA champs. “I’ve […]
Bodies were hitting the ground everywhere you turned Monday. But don’t panic, it was just the start of another flip-filled season at the Fort Frances Judo Club. Les Wiersema, club president for the last eight years, estimated about 30 judokas came out for the season’s inaugural session. “It’s about the […]
Auto racing has been in Dwayne Pihulak’s blood for 35 years. But the Fort Frances resident isn’t sure what his racing future holds after a controversial finish to the last competitive event of the season at Emo Speedway earlier this month. “It’s very questionable whether I’ll return to racing there,” […]
Once they got hopping, there was just no stopping. Ernie Klyne and Laura Bruyere got the jump on the rest of the field en route to the respective men’s and ladies’ titles in the annual Frog Creek Open Sunday at Kitchen Creek. Klyne was feeling fine after shooting a 79 […]
The coming season for the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team should carry a disclaimer for spectators. Warning: Shots will be fired from all directions. Blink at your own risk. The Muskies plan to take a high-octane approach from the opening tip-off of the season tomorrow in Dryden as they look […]
Starting the season off on the right skate was just what the Borderland Thunder had in mind. The local Junior ‘A’ team—fresh off winning the Superior Inter-national Junior Hockey League’s annual “Showcase” tournament here last weekend—hit the ice again this Friday and Saturday night to open its second SIJHL campaign […]
The eighth-annual Rainy River Valley Giant Pumpkin Festival is set for Saturday, Sept. 28 at Hannam Park in Rainy River. Who will go home with the coveted “most attractive pumpkin” prize? Certainly not Alberton reeve and pumpkin aficionado John Milling. “Mine just developed a crack in it,” he said, with […]
