A “spending survey” conducted during this year’s Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship revealed that more than $1 million was spent here as a result of the tournament and its activities. Total money spent by American visitors was an estimated $367,500, followed by Rainy River District residents ($341,820), Ontarians ($223,020), Fort […]
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Faced without a league to play in this season, the Muskie football team was forced to play a series of exhibition games against Manitoba squads. And the black-and-gold dominated them, posting an 4-0 record while outscoring their opponents by an incredible 172-35 margin. Their latest victim was the St. James […]
The Fort Frances Minor Hockey Association is preparing to host a pair of clinics for coaches and trainers next month. A Level I and II coaches’ clinic is slated Nov. 13 and 15. The first day will consist of four-five hours of instruction, with eight hours of classroom time planned […]
Kitchen Creek also saw another record broken this season–aces. Eight different golfers recorded holes-in-one at the local course, including six on the par-three seventh. The other two aces came at #11 and #13 (also par-threes). “As far as I know, it’s a club record,” local pro Gord Workum said yesterday. […]
Taking advantage of an early spring and a surge in popularity in the sport, the Kitchen Creek Golf Course saw a record number of rounds played there this season. Roughly 34,000 rounds have been played so far, club pro Gord Workum said Monday morning. “That’s a big-time jump,” he enthused. […]
As Crossroads cross-country coach Paul Murray prepared to take his group of runners to a meet in Thunder Bay last weekend for the first time, he admitted he wasn’t quite sure how they would stack up. Murray knew he was taking a strong contingent of 20 runners (10 boys and […]
Conditions weren’t the best to be tromping through a Scottish cemetery but Fort Frances resident Gordon Ross was on a mission–he was looking for his ancestors. After hours walking between the tombstones in the wet, dreary weather, he and his brother hit paydirt. A chiseled, thin slab, a piece of […]
On paper, it met the standards but Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc. decided to put its new front entrance to the human test Monday afternoon to make sure it met wheelchair accessibility requirements. Volunteer Lorraine Sokoliuk wheeled around the million-dollar new entrance at La Verendrye Health Centre, which opened Monday […]
The Ontario Clean Water Agency has filter and chemical experts coming to Atikokan’s water treatment plant to see what went wrong in its system after the Northwestern Health Unit issued a “boil water” advisory there last week. It’s also conducting a “wet well cleanout” to see if that will prevent […]
Things are looking brighter in Emo these days as the river level climbed about 20 inches above the municipality’s water intake with all the recent rain. It had been only two inches above the intake. But that hasn’t curbed plans to drop in another intake closer to shore where the […]
They’re still unpacking boxes and putting up blackboards but for all intents and purposes, the local Confederation College campus finally has a permanent home. And they’re ready to celebrate! The college will hold its grand opening tomorrow, complete with a ribbon-cutting at 4:30 p.m., just one week after moving into […]
Atikokan residents may have been drinking water with disease-causing bacteria for more than a month due to delays in getting test results. And Mayor Dennis Brown said he wants to know why. “I certainly, as the mayor, am concerned that it did take so long,” he noted yesterday. While the […]
