Providing convenience for the customer is the number-one reason behind Steve Lundon’s decision to open a second hardware store here April 13–this time on Scott Street. Handy Pro Hardware, a separate franchise from Lundon’s Northern Do-it center store on Highway 11/71 just west of town, will be located in the […]
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“The object of a festival is not to gain a prize or defeat a rival but to face one another on the road to excellence.” That’s the verse found in the official program of the annual Rainy River District Music and Drama Festival, which kicks off Monday, April 13 at […]
Lake of the Woods Provincial Park, though soon to be known as Assabaska Ojibway Heritage Park, will remain in the provincial park system for one more summer pending the final settlement of the Assabaska land issue sometime in November. That settlement will see the deregulation of the mainland portion of […]
Area residents who want to see an abattoir built in Rainy River District have six days to raise at least $200,000 or else the project dies. The final decision will be made next Tuesday when the abattoir steering committee meets at 7:30 p.m. in the Sturgeon Creek school gym. If […]
Brian White scored his third goal of the game with less than a minute left in overtime to lift tagg’s to a 4-3 victory over the Times Tigers on Sunday afternoon in the ‘A’ final of a Tom Thumb tournament here. White opened the scoring in the first but the […]
Some 48 teams are vying for the top prize this year at the 50th-annual Fort Frances men’s bonspiel, which runs tomorrow through Sunday at the local curling club. Mark Haluptzok of Bemidji, Mn. won last year’s bonspiel with a 10-7 victory over Jim Ballard in the ‘A’ final. Here are […]
Even though Michigan State’s Rustyn Dolyny was edged out of the CCHA’s rookie-of-the-year honours by Notre Dame defenceman Mark Eaton at last week’s awards banquet in Detroit, the former Muskie has his sights set on a much bigger prize. And that has national championship written all over it. “I wasn’t […]
Clint Barton was left wishing they were just an inch closer to the button in an extra end of Saturday’s final at the Canadian police curling championship in St. John’s, Nfld. That inch, which put Barton and his Northern Ontario rink on the short end of a 6-5 decision to […]
In an attempt to rebound from a less-than-spectacular season which saw the Thunder Bay Flyers finish out of the USHL playoffs once again, six players from the Muskies have been invited to a rookie camp in Kenora in August. Chuck Arpin, Ryan Armstrong, Aaron Grynol, Frank Redford, Dale Jerry, and […]
Despite outshooting their opponents from Bismarck, N.D. by a 35-13 margin, and carrying the play for most of the game, the local Bantam BoMacs came up short Sunday in the final of the International Invitational Tournament in the Falls. Scoreless through the first two periods, Bismarck got on the board […]
Even though the scores were terribly lopsided at the PeeWee ‘A’ branch playdowns in Emo last weekend, Larry Tucker, executive director of the Thunder Bay Amateur Hockey Association, said what was more important was that Emo hosted the four-team tournament. Longlac dominated the round-robin, finishing with a perfect 3-0 record, […]
The local KC PeeWee hockey rep team shut out DePere (Wis.) 4-0 Sunday afternoon to win the ‘A’ final of the eight-team International Invitational Tournament in International Falls. Nathan Miller, assisted by A.J. Tucker, opened the scoring just 6:45 into the first period. The KCs then dominated play in the […]
