Despite not being able to complete one event due to a broken sled, Steve Arpin took top honours in four of his five Ice Oval races last weekend in Roseau, Mn. They included the SP 440 L (ProX 440), SP 600 L (ProX 600), SP Champ (Champ 440), and Formula […]
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Emo minor hockey teams had a strong week against visiting Fort Frances teams in recent action. In Atom action, the Emo Hawks clawed their way to a 4-3 victory over the visiting MEC Bulldogs (Fort Frances). Tyler Cottam netted the game-winner with three minutes to go. Terry Carmody (two) and […]
The four Muskie court teams will resume NorWOSSA action here next Tuesday against Dryden and the coaches are confident their squads will only get better. Three of the teams–the boys’ senior and junior basketball squads and the senior girls’ volleyballers–sport 3-0 records heading into the midway point of the eight-game […]
The local K of C ‘AA’ PeeWee hockey team split a pair of games over the holidays, dumping visiting International Falls 7-1 on Saturday but losing 6-5 against host Steinbach last Friday. Andrew Morrison, assisted by Riley Burnell, had given the Falls an early 1-0 lead but it was all […]
It was all Muskies during last week’s showdown against the Kenora Broncos as all four Fort High teams gave the host Broncos a not-so-cheery Season’s Greetings. The senior girls’ volleyball team improved its NorWOSSA record to 3-0 after sweeping the Broncos in the best-of-five match 25-15, 25-15, and 25-23. Coach […]
Former Fort Frances resident James Knoff left Winnipeg to visit his old stomping grounds and showed he can still swing a squash raquet. Knoff captured the ‘A/B’ event of the annual Fort Frances Boxing Day squash tournament after downing runner-up Jason Kabel 3-1 in the final here Tuesday afternoon. Knoff, […]
Abitibi-Consolidated has shelved plans to log the Reef Point Road-Hopkins Bay Road-Bay Road area for fire and shelter wood–plans which had sparked a public outcry last month. “We can’t log there without adversely affecting the land values,” local mill manager Jim Gartshore said Monday. “The areas will be declared surplus […]
A family of four are facing tough times after their mobile home in the Lakeview Trailer Court here caught fire just prior to midnight Saturday. The blaze left it uninhabitable for Miranda and Trevor Andrushuk and their two young children (aged three and four months), with smoke and heat damage […]
Dave and Mike Allison want to run a “AA” developmental hockey camp here for the weeks of July 19-23 and July 26-30. In fact, they’ve already booked the ice time with Community Services manager George Bell. There’s just one problem. Terry Mihichuk, owner/operator of the existing Borderland Hockey School, has […]
A single-vehicle accident along Highway 11-71 near La Vallee just before 2 a.m. Christmas morning took out a hydro pole that caused a district-wide power outage and a localized power surge which damaged electrical appliances in several households. Police said the lone female driver, who was westbound at the time […]
David Fagerdahl has been catching up on his rest after returning home from a five-week internship as a page at Queen’s Park in Toronto. “It was a lot of hard work but I really enjoyed it,” said the 13-year-old Fort Frances resident. “As a page, I was responsible for serving […]
Local runner Cathy Kowal will be taking part in a 42-km run Jan. 7 at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fl. to help raise money for arthritis research on behalf of local resident and arthritis sufferer Melvin Haukaas. “It is pretty much consuming my days now,” admitted Kowal, a member […]
