The 1998 Coffee Break/Story Hour Convention was held at Gordon College in Wenham, Wash., with more than 1,000 women from across North America, of all ages and walks of life, on hand for it. This included ladies from the Emo Christian Reformed, including Gertie Boven, Betty Esselink, Cora VanSmeerdyk, Geneva […]
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Jack Thompson fired a 75 to earn a two-stroke victory over Tom Bennett in a seniors’ tournament last Wednesday at Kitchen Creek Golf Course. Bennett’s 77 was the low gross score in the championship flight, one stroke better than Freddie Beck and Grant Green. Dick Burnett had the low net […]
“Teaching the art of diving since 1978,” the Blue H20 Sports Inc. was back in Fort Frances last week to train a new batch of scuba diving enthusiasts. The Northern Ontario unit of the Port Coquitlam-based company was offering a scuba diving course here for the fifth year. The other […]
The Thunder Bay Flyers yesterday announced local scout Shane Baker will be part of their full-time staff for the upcoming season. Baker, who will be responsible for players in the Northwestern Ontario region, joins Mark Pugliese (Thunder Bay), Rod McKenzie (Terrace Bay), Dwight Degiacomo (Minneapolis), Alan Young (Winnipeg), and Scott […]
The Emo Bulldogs used the long ball behind the two-hit pitching of Gus Copenace to dump the Thunder Bay Mariners 7-1 in the ‘A’-final Sunday at a fastball tournament in Kakabeka Falls. Dennis Mounk, Sean Taggart, and Sheldon Kelly all homered for the Bulldogs, who finished the tournament with a […]
He sits relaxed this afternoon. He has just finished up with a win on the Silverado, and earlier this month with a high finish at the Dennys tournament. Ted Capra is on a roll–although in his eyes, he isn’t doing as well as he had last year. Fishing tournaments throughout […]
The Sunset Merchants blew a three-run lead in the last inning of the championship game Sunday to fall 6-5 to the Gladstone Whips at the Intermediate ‘A’ Manitoba provincial fastball tournament in Winnipeg. Holding a comfortable 5-2 lead heading into the bottom of the seventh, the Merchants’ hopes of winning […]
If Joan Richardson keeps on dominating the annual Kitchen Creek Ladies Open, one has to wonder if the Grand Rapids whiz won’t be invited back some day. Although that would never happen, some local golfers probably would think that wasn’t such a bad idea. Richardson won her second Ladies’ Open […]
An bald eaglet is less endangered this week after surviving a harrowing fall from its nest late last month. A Jackfish Lake cottage owner awoke early June 25 to find the eaglet fell onto his porch. The nest, which also housed another eaglet, was in a white pine above the […]
Public school board staff who were slated to be cut due to amalgamation and the new funding model seem to have gotten a stay of execution at last night’s committee of the whole meeting here. Acting education director John McLeod presented trustees with his review of staffing for the board’s […]
Scalacs Inc. is interested in setting up a plant to recycle small wire from the North American mid-west, and Rainy River District has caught their eye. Company reps toured district communities last week, said Geoff Gillon, community investment manager at the Rainy River Future Development Corp. “They’re looking for a […]
Almost two dozen local residents will be going bald this weekend–but all for a worthy cause. The “Cops for Cancer” shave-off, being held in conjunction with the annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, is slated Saturday at 1 p.m. under the big tent at the Sorting Gap Marina. Most of […]
