The new school year at Donald Young in Emo is off to a great start, with the installation of a new computer lab expecting to be completed by the end of September. Principal Nancy Fretter said the new lab will have 28 “modern” computers, all with a high-end Pentium II […]
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“Our safe place.” That’s what Erin McMahon called the large white house on Victoria Avenue here.
After more than three years as executive director of the Community Care Access Centre here, Dave Murray will be taking over the reins of the Sault Ste. Marie Group Health Centre effective Nov. 6. “I’m really honoured to land a position like this,” said Murray, a lifelong Fort Frances resident […]
Kelsey Zacharias started her first day at Atikokan High School this week equipped with something more important than new clothes and school supplies. The 12-year-old, grade seven student had returned from the D.A.R.E. (Drug and Alcohol Resistance Education) camp at Sunny Cove here three days earlier, bringing home lessons she […]
The second auction at the revamped Stratton cattle barn was a success Saturday despite the threat of anthrax in Rainy River District. More than 640 head were sold during the annual yearling auction for prices exceeding those at similar sales in Winnipeg and southeastern Ontario. “This year I can’t buy […]
Angela Halvorsen is hoping people will want to “Get out of Town” this October. Halvorsen is a co-ordinator for the “Get out of Town” district farm tour slated Oct. 1. A joint effort between the Rainy River Federation of Agriculture and the Rainy River Future Development Corp., it offers town […]
By Kelly Crowe
Staff writer
Staff writer
Adriana Harumi Ota may be thousands of miles from home, but that doesn’t mean the Brazilian gymnastics coach has changed her lifestyle very much. Ota, who performed, competed and coached gymnastics for 16 years in Rio de Janeiro, came up to Canada to do pretty much the same thing. “It’s […]
After a disappointing Canadian junior championship tournament last week, Christin Thomson redeemed herself by winning the Kitchen Creek Ladies Open on Saturday. Thomson carded an 81, nine strokes over par, to defend her title as the two-time Kitchen Creek Ladies Open Champion. But the champ remarked it was certainly not […]
Rick Sekulich, Rob Crowe and Al Holt, hit the jackpot this weekend at the Las Vegas Scramble golf tournament. The trio will be heading to Las Vegas in November after winning the inaugural tournament with a low score of 64 in the 87 player tournament at Kitchen Creek. “It was […]
Despite only practising for a little over a week, coaches of the Fort Frances Muskie football team have no question that the team is ready for Thursday’s game against Sturgeon Creek of Winnipeg. “They will be ready,” said Muskie football coach Todd Calder. “Most of the guys on the senior […]
Aim . . . shoot . . . fire. That is what 37 registered archers concentrated on doing to their best ability during the 3-D archery competition at the Sportsmen’s Club Frog Creek site this past weekend. “It went great, probably our best competition ever,” said Ben Weirsma, archery club […]
Four people spending five months travelling from North Central Saskatchewan to Ottawa may almost sound like an episode of “Survivor” but these people aren’t competing to win a million dollars. “Personally I am doing this to promote awareness for issues in the northern forest land use, aboriginal roles/interactions,” said Graham […]
