First Nations students from around the district will be at the Couchiching Bingo Palace later this month to test their know-how in aboriginal matters in the first-annual “Knowledge Bowl.” Slated March 25 from 9:30 a.m. to about 2 p.m., aboriginal, Métis, and Inuit youth in grades five to eight will […]
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The Muskie senior boys’ basketball team had been on fire all season, playing a brand of wide-open, exciting basketball that produced more than its fair share of wins. But when the black-and-gold needed a win the most, in the NorWOSSA final last Friday against the Kenora Broncos up there, the […]
The Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team had the Kenora Broncos on the ropes in the NorWOSSA final there last Friday but they couldn’t deliver the knockout blow. After winning the first two games of the best-of-five match 15-8 and 15-13, passing well, setting near perfection, and hitting the ball with […]
John Lundon beat out 24 other riders to take the checkered flag in the 500 cc division of a snowcross race in Grand Rapids, Mn. last weekend. Lundon, 19, of here raced to four first-place finishes, a third, and a fifth on Saturday to qualify for Sunday’s semi-final, where he […]
It was oh so close. Trailing 38-35 in the NorWOSSA semi-final against the Dryden Eagles last Friday in Kenora, the Muskies elected to put the ball in the hands of their hottest shooter, Facial Cheblaoui, to try a game-tying three-pointer. And why not? He had made a long-range shot with […]
Although a provincial women’s curling championship has eluded Kathie Jackson so far in her competitive curling career, she finally captured a title that also had slipped through her grasp until now. The annual Fort Frances ladies’ bonspiel. Jackson breezed through the competition in the 46th-annual affair last week, capping it […]
It wasn’t pretty. In fact, it was ugly at times. But who says you have to play pretty to win, and the Muskies played well enough in spurts to sweep the Red Lake Rams 2-0 in their best-of-three NorWOSSA semi-final series last weekend. They now move on to the best-of-three […]
In a season where the Muskie junior girls’ volleyball team dominated, it was hardly surprising when they won yet another league crown last Friday in Kenora with a convincing 15-5/15-10 win over the Dryden Eagles in the best-of-three NorWOSSA final. It was the junior Muskies’ fourth-straight championship, and seventh in […]
Several club records were shattered, and a slew of personal bests recorded, by members of the Fort Frances Aquanauts at the Northwest regional team championships here last weekend. Among the senior Aquanauts, Jeff Plumridge and Steven Gushulak led the way. Plumridge, 16, set some club records and recorded personal bests […]
Amid positive feedback about the food, entertainment, and silent auction, the biggest buzz surrounding Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s second-annual fundraiser dinner here Friday night was the more than $25,000 it raised. “I think it far exceeded our expectations,” enthused Foundation director Wendy Frattolin. “We raised more than last year […]
It isn’t official yet but the feeling is “positive” that the Northern Ontario Heritage Funding Corp. will approve a $1.75-million loan to provide a cellular phone corridor from Thunder Bay to Rainy River, and as far north as Morson and Nestor Falls. Vic Prokopchuk of Sapawe, who’s been working with […]
It was a packed house at the Legion here Saturday night as local residents, and some from International Falls, came out to enjoy the traditional food and song of Ireland. Billed as a pre-St. Patrick’s Day party, sponsored by the Rainy Lake Multicultural Association, about 145 people came out to […]
