Forty-four teams will compete in the 53rd-annual Fort Frances men’s bonspiel, which will gets underway here late tomorrow afternoon. Rick Grenda, who is helping organize the bonspiel, said local rinks will be vying for top honours in the ‘A,’ ‘B,’ ‘C,’ and ‘D’ events with ones from Dryden, Kenora, Sioux […]
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Goalie Jamie Booth and his teammates were not fazed by their 20-hour bus ride here from Fort Frances as they won their first two pool games yesterday at the all-Ontario ‘A/AA’ hockey championship. After opening with a 9-1 win over 16th-ranked Sacred Heart (Stittsville), the top-ranked Muskies skated to hard-fought […]
The Fort Frances ‘AA’ PeeWee hockey team travelled across the river to face the International Falls Broncos last weekend and came home with a 3-0 win. David Pierce (assisted by Tyler Miller and Larry Pham) opened up the scoring in the first period. After a scoreless second, Pham and Alex […]
Local figure skater Sarah McComb went to Fort Erie for the provincial competition over the weekend and finished seventh out of the top 12 skaters in Ontario. “It was a good experience. She missed a couple of jumps that if she would have landed would have made her score higher,” […]
Who will win the Oscar? Come and find out this Sunday (March 25) as the Emo Figure Skating Club presents its annual ice show, which this year is called “Oscar Night.” The show will be staged from 1-4 p.m. at the Emo arena. Admission is $7 for adults and $4 […]
With just two performances left in the current “tour de Fort” concert series (Motus O tonight and Tyler Yarema next Tuesday), organizers already are planning the lineup for next season. “Current ‘tour de Fort’ passport holders will be able to purchase next year’s passports at the Tyler Yarema show,” said […]
An intensified partnership between police and Fort Frances High School was made official last night during the opening of the OPP’s liaison office there. The new office, located off the entrance of the school library, will serve as a place where students can drop by to talk to an on-duty […]
This is the third in a series of articles to share information on issues of importance to parents and other members of the Fort High community. Today’s topic is course selections, and is intended to provide some important information and dates regarding completion of option sheets for the 2001-2002 year. […]
The 19th-annual Ducks Unlimited banquet is coming up here April 27 and local DU chair Barney Maher already is confident it will be a success. “People should get their tickets now,” he stressed. “The last two years, the event has been sold out two weeks prior to the banquet.” In […]
“The last-minute [worries] have hit,” John Jankiewicz admitted yesterday when discussing the upcoming Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts. The Rainy River Music Festival Association, of which Jankiewicz is president, has been working hard to get the last-minute details ironed out before the April 16-29 competition. “This whole […]
Tyler Yarema is a high-energy “boogie-woogie” player who will be coming to the Townshend Theatre next Tuesday (March 27) at 7:30 p.m. to play his own style of jazz–mixed with a touch of blues and swing. One of the latest to join the recent crop of young, talented musicians sweeping […]
While “Spring Fling” was the theme of last year’s annual fundraising banquet staged by the local Business Women’s Network, the group has something else in mind for its third-annual dinner slated May 5. “This year, the Business Women’s Network is holding ‘A Touch of Italy,’ with a completely Italian menu,” […]
