Seven concerts, seven different styles of musical entertainment. “tour de Fort” is back for the 2000/01 season with a mixture of performances that feature eclectic, brass, country, Celtic, a capella, and dance theatre. “We’ve tried to appeal to different age groups and different musical and theatrical tastes,” tour de Fort […]
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Summer memories don’t usually include masks and Shakespeare but that’s what two Fort High students will be sharing now that they’re back in school. Heather Algie, 15, and Lindsay Hamilton, 17, took part in a unique summer camp this year–the Stratford Shakespearean School. “It was an amazing group of people, […]
It was a race to the finish Sunday when the 40 entries in the seventh-annual Morson Bass Classic weighed in their catches. Perhaps the most widely-watched teams on the leader board were two that featured the same names. Bill Godin and Pat Handorgan were neck and neck after the first […]
Tagg’s dominated the field here Sunday, capturing the men’s Borderland soccer crown for the third-straight time with a convincing 6-1 victory over Nova in the league final. “We played pretty good–the score was indicative of how intense of a game it was. We both played really well but that is […]
So far so good, the Muskie ‘C’ football team looks like it will field a good squad this year. “It is going good,” noted coach Steve Maki. “We are getting more kids out all the time and since [Tuesday] is the first day of school, we will probably have more […]
The Emo Bulldogs placed in the top 10 at the North America Fastpitch Association World Series last week in Fargo, N.D with a 3-2 record. “The competition was tough. If you made an error, you lost the game,” noted Bulldog team member Brent Tookenay. The Bulldogs got off to a […]
Calm weather had threatened the eighth race of the Rendezvous Yacht Club’s fall series last Wednesday but a slight northwest win picked up enough at the start to hold the five-leg event. A slight northwest wind picked up enough to hold the five-leg race. Warren Wagness (aboard “Slug”) topped the […]
The employment centre at the local Northern Communit and Development Services (NCDS) centre has announced it has gone slightly above its target for helping teens find jobs this summer. The centre, a subsidy of the Ontario government, originally had hoped to find 67 people subsidized jobs but they succeeded in […]
Every year, the Nor-West Animal Clinic here sees cases of blastomycosis. But in 2000, the disease has been on the rise “It’s nasty. It turns the lungs into solid masses, it’s awful,” said Dr. Chris Cannon of the Nor-West Animal Clinic. “There seems to be a little more than in […]
As up to 300 Fort High students wait to get their course schedules sorted out at the school’s guidance department, at least one grade 11 student is wondering if he’s going to have to wait another year to get the math and chemistry courses he needs to eventually graduate. “If […]
Fort High teachers returned to a different kind of school experience yesterday. Now that they are teaching an extra half-course along with their previous six per year under Bill 74, being a high school teacher promises for some “interesting” times ahead, math/science co-ordinator Andrew Hallikas said Tuesday. “[Yesterday] was chaos. […]
Northern Development and Mines minister Tim Hudak was in Fort Frances on Monday to reward the Rainy River District Social Service Administration Board with a $25,000 cheque for exceeding last year’s workfare placement target. The province had set a target of 30 job placements for those enrolled in the local […]
