More cold than hot. More bad than good. That was the theme for local skip Lorne Jackson’s first appearance at the Northern Ontario men’s playdowns in Kapuskasing last week, where his rink finished with a 3-5 record in the round-robin to fall short of a playoff berth. “Yes and no,” […]
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All four Muskie court teams will be gunning to defend their respective NorWOSSA titles this Friday in Kenora. But three of them will have to get through the semi-finals first to advance to the final and hopefully win gold again. Only the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team, which finished atop […]
Twenty teams in five age divisions descended on the Memorial Sports Centre last weekend for the fourth-annual Fort Frances Girls’/Women’s Minor Hockey Association tournament. No championships were claimed by the five local teams, but the tournament still was deemed a success as the biggest field yet competed. “It’s been an […]
A slew of new champions were crowned at the annual La Place Rendez-Vous squash tournament at the Memorial Sports Centre over the weekend. All but one. Bob Shine (Thunder Bay) made it five-straight men’s ‘A’ crowns after sweeping Rory Hygard, also of Thunder Bay, 3-0 in the best-of-five final Sunday […]
Work is expected to start in April after both Ottawa and the province announced funding last week to help cover the cost of renovations to the ’52 Canadians Arena. The project will include replacing arena boards, higher glass, and up-to-date heating and ventilation systems in the change rooms and pool […]
Steve Arpin came full circle over the weekend. The local pro oval snowmobile racer made his second trip to the 19th-annual Grand Prix in Valcourt, Que. a successful one as he earned top three finishes in six of his eight feature races there. “I think we did really good. We’re […]
The Muskie cheerleading squad is coming off an inspired performance at the Ontario Cheerleading Federation’s “North” regional showdowns in Thunder Bay on Sunday, but remain undecided about whether they want to commit to a run at the provincials. “It’s undecided right now,” said head coach Borka Gauthier after her team […]
The Muskie boys’ hockey team made sure they would not be the first of their storied program to miss the playoffs. They outworked Dryden 3-2 in their season-finale here last night to earn the fourth-and-final Nor-WOSSA playoff berth—and a date against the first-place Eagles in the opener of their best-of-three […]
This year’s Northern Ontario men’s curling playdowns in Kapuskasing definitely had a family feel to it for longtime local curler Rob Sinclair. Sinclair found himself watching his son, Rob, who played third with Ron Rosengren’s Fort William rink, and son-in-law Lorne Jackson, skip of the Fort Frances entry, vying for […]
The local Taggs Bantam ‘AA’ team faced their toughest challenge to date last weekend in Brandon—and responded by fighting fire with fire. Taggs battled among seven of their top peers in Western Canada at the annual Tournament of Champions to finish with a 2-2 record, missing a playoff berth by […]
Although the flow of postcards has trickled down to two or three a day, the Northwestern Health Unit has a much clearer picture of whether people in the Kenora-Rainy River districts support its push to ban smoking in enclosed public places. “In total, we’ve gotten about 20 percent of the […]
First Nations students have been scoring lower on provincial test scores than their classmates across Ontario. But a joint venture between the Seven Generations Education Institute here and Northwestern Ontario school boards announced last week hopes to change that in this region. The Ontario Ministry of Education and Department of […]
