The Aquanauts capped off another impressive season in the pool by placing third at the Northwest regional team championships here last weekend. The local club had 29 swimmers earn a total of 613 points. The Kenora Swimming Sharks, with 44 swimmers, finished first with 1,468 points, followed by the Thunder […]
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Principal Brian Love made an unusual dare with his Mine Centre students–and they made him face the music (or, rather, a minnow) last Wednesday. Love ate a live minnow more than six inches long last Wednesday after the grades one-six shared reading group there achieved its goal of reading 2,500 […]
After seven years of operating a Christian-oriented primary school in Fort Frances, the Emanuel Christian Academy is planning to offer a high school program starting in September, Pastor Steve Laing said. The school is based out of the Calvary Tabernacle at 308 Butler Ave., where 12 students presently are enrolled […]
Girl Guides and Pathfinders from across the La Verendrye Division came together as their annual year-end rally, dubbed “Ticks and Tornados,” took to the field at Sturgeon Creek School in Barwick over the weekend. And meeting new friends was a priority, with 110 participants plus leaders sharing a campsite for […]
Every kid has dreamed about becoming a firefighter at one time or another. Racing through the streets in a fire engine, putting out fires with high-pressure water hoses, breaking down doors with axes–who wouldn’t find that appealing? But it’s not a job to be taking lightly, noted Rob Johnson, even […]
Parents who have children with special needs can’t be guaranteed that assistance for their child will be available come September, Education Director Wayne McAndrew told public school board trustees last night. In fact, the school board won’t know how many special education assistants it can hire until sometime this summer, […]
Despite cold, windy conditions, 56 adults and 11 children turned out to participate in the sixth-annual “Hip Hip Hooray” walk along the waterfront here Sunday afternoon. While participation was down from last year, that didn’t discourage event organizer Jenny Wonfor. “I was very pleased with the walk itself even though […]
Rita Chénier said she feels like she’s come home. The Sudbury native is on the third week in her new position as executive director of Family and Children Services here, taking the helm from Betty McLeod who retired at the end of April. “I love the area,” she enthused Friday, […]
Need something to keep your kids from going stir-crazy during the middle of summer? Well, Anna Defrancesco has an idea for you. The Fort Frances Summer Music Camp ’98 will be taking registrants at the Alexander MacKenzie School gym June 18 from 3:30-7:30 p.m. The camp itself will be held […]
Rabies isn’t a problem here, with sources at the NorWest Animal Clinic here suggesting local veterinarians haven’t come across the virus in animals in years. But that doesn’t mean the public should let their awareness of the disease dissolve, warned Terry Whiting, a disease control veterinarian with the Canadian Food […]
The Mr. Fun in the Sun contest is a go for its third year after all when Steve Fry, Dino Morelli, Steve Niskala, and Kevin Sieders stepped forward by Monday’s deadline. Another five contestants are vying for this year’s Miss Fun in the Sun crown, including Amanda Cherry (Gagne’s Pharmacy), […]
Grade five students at Huffman and Robert Moore here got a chance to hear first-hand about the job of a Canadian Forces “Snowbird” when a pilot and an avionics technician paid a one-hour visit to each school last Thursday morning. Besides a video presentation, and a question and answer session, […]
