Unseasonably mild weather last Friday made for perfect conditions for a grade seven/eight soccer tournament held at Robert Moore and St. Francis here.
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The Muskie junior girls’ basketball team strutted their stuff during their first tournament of the season last weekend, coming home from Thunder Bay with a 2-1 record. “The girls stepped up,” noted head coach Mike Busch. “In all the games, they played well.” Actually, their first game against St. Ignatius […]
The local KC PeeWee rep team got their season off on a winning note here Sunday afternoon with a 6-3 victory over the Atikokan Flyers. Josh Sigurdson, assisted by Cody Dittaro, opened up the scoring with 15:16 left in the first period. Then, with just over five minutes left, Jared […]
The Muskie senior girls’ basketball team showed they could hold their own during a tournament last weekend in Thunder Bay, winning two of three games there. “We did quite well. The girls played well,” head coach Paul Noonan enthused. The team started things off on a good note, dumping St. […]
The odds of bumping into Thivagaran Pillay, Thulani Thompson, Johannes Cornelius Botha, or Malcolm Leon Booysens in downtown Fort Frances are now pretty slim. But for four days last week, the South African delegation was in town to learn what makes a small Canadian community tick. The delegation, from the […]
Fort Frances Little Theatre will be back on stage with its production of “Beauty and the Beast” on Nov. 2-4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Townshend Theatre here. A matinee also is slated for Sunday, Nov. 5 at 2 p.m. This version–written and directed by Wendy Judson of Emo–promises to […]
In grief, in celebration, in struggle, in fleeting moments of peace: we gather forever, not as a people helpless and afraid, not as a people victorious and proud, but as a people, pulled by the Spirit to live lives of love and compassion. “Tonight is not a fundraiser. It’s a […]
After being notified this week that La Verendrye hospital here will get more than $800,000 for a hemodialysis unit, the CEO of Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc. said it hopefully will be operational in the next six months. “It’s fantastic news for the residents,” Wayne Woods enthused Tuesday. “Those who […]
In the world of horse showing, Donovan Taylor has just captured the highest honour a boy could win. Taylor and his horse, “Chicago,” walked away as champions in the Lead Line class at the World Wide Paint Horse Congress in Wichita, Kan. this past weekend. The top honour is one […]
While grade three and six students have been tested by the Education Quality and Accountability Office for several years now, 10th-graders across Ontario were tested on their reading and writing skills last week–marking the start of a new requirement for graduation. This year’s test won’t count toward graduation but it […]
A Minnesota lawyer is taking Boise Cascade to court to challenge the company’s decision to make the old bridge tickets obsolete in the wake of the new swipe cards. “I did it. I just thought it was very unfair that the bridge owners sold bridge tickets and refused to offer […]
“The world is dangerous place to live in not because of those who do evil but because of those who watch and let it happen.”–Albert Einstein. These words–written on the final slide in OPP Det. Sgt. Jim Van Allen’s presentation on school violence at the Civic Centre here Monday night–best […]
