After six weeks of training, 15 young adults aged 19-29 are now working at jobs they never dreamed of after beginning their six-week placements through the Fort Frances and District Association for Community Living’s “Youth at Risk” program. “They’ve worked really hard over these past weeks,” said project co-ordinator Allene […]
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Thanks to a provincial grant, a new program being implemented at Fort High this year will help some students make the transition to the job market a little easier. Named “Bridges: School to Work Transition Grant,” the proposal to get a program up and running here was submitted to the […]
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 […]
Eight local athletes from the Fort Frances Trampoline Club travelled to Thunder Bay last weekend to compete in the provincial qualifier at the Confederation College Bubble. Kaela Hahkala placed first in the Prov. 1 female trampoline category to earn a gold medal while Leah Nowak placed third for a bronze […]
The Muskie mixed curling team, led by skip Scott Gosman, cruised to a perfect 5-0 record at the NorWOSSA playdowns here earlier this week. But because there is no NWOSSAA competition in the mixed division, the black-and-gold did not advance to the next level. Gosman’s rink, which included Gary Pattison, […]
