Dan Falloon Lynn Windigo put her broom to the ice as part of the annual ladies’ bonspiel held at the Fort Frances Curling Club over the weekend. Jodi Judd successfully defended her ‘A’ title, fending off a challenge from Mary Beth Tkachuk with a 7-4 win. Flo Chartrand won the […]
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Staff Deborah Smart, director of sales for ESPN, dropped by the Fort Frances/Rainy Lake booth in Birmingham, Ala. during set-up late yesterday and spoke with Chamber of Commerce manager Anthony Mason about the Fort Frances area. The local booth is the sole one from Canada at the 2010 Bassmaster Classic. […]
Peggy Revell Julianna Rousseau and her grandmother, Marg Rousseau, got ready to dig in at yesterday evening’s spaghetti dinner fundraiser held in the Fort Frances High School cafeteria. Organized by Fort High students, the event raised more than $4,000 for earthquake relief efforts in Haiti by the Red Cross.
Dave Ogilvie An enthusiastic audience was treated to an evening of music with Rodney Brown and the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday at the Townshend Theatre here. Brown performed several songs, accompanied by the TBSO, from his latest CD entitled “The Big Lonely.” The orchestra also played several of its […]
Peggy Revell Anne and Rachel McCoy took a bumpy ride down the big tobogganing hill in Alberton on Family Day (Monday) during the township’s ninth-annual winter fun day. There was a big turnout for the afternoon as families came out to skate on the Millennium Rink, toboggan, and roast marshamallows […]
Peggy Revell Bev Rinke and Marie Anderson manned the booth set up by the Fort Frances Horticultural Society during “Seedy Saturday” at the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market here. The seed exchange gave residents a chance to select from favourite and useful seeds other gardeners and growers use, as well as […]
Peggy Revell Carrieann Brown, a culinary arts student at the Seven Generations Education Institute, served a bowl of “three sister soup with partridge” to Mitaanjigamiing First Nation Chief Janice Henderson during Friday evening’s benefit dinner for the Good Life for Young People Foundation.
Dan Falloon Fort Frances Timbit player Marti Woods cradled a teammate’s pass in a game against International Falls on Saturday night as part of a girls’ hockey tournament here. The Timbits finished fourth in the Novice division. On the Atom side, Kaemingh Esso finished second while the Rolling Lake Lightning […]
Peggy Revell Liz Henderson, right, and Kaayla Fox get ready to taste the main course of the gourmet dinner served by the culinary arts students at Seven Generations Education Institute during Friday night’s wild game benefit dinner for the Good Life for Young People Foundation (Oshki-Aa-yaa’aag Mino Bimaadiziiwin). Along with […]
Duane Hicks Jennifer Rogowsky created a watercolour painting with her son, Nicolas, during Family Day activities at the Fort Frances Museum yesterday.
Peggy Revell Grade 2 students at St. Michael’s School, including Kade Kocuiba, left, Cassidy Morrisson, Dale Berg, and Carson Noga, lined up in the hallway this morning to head back to their classroom after receiving a plate full of pancakes to enjoy to commemorate Shrove Tuesday. Several community pancake suppers […]
Dan Falloon Kaemingh Esso forward Emma Noga chased down Lauren Hamilton (Rolling Lake Lightning) in the Atom semi-finals of a girls’ hockey tournament here Sunday morning. Esso blanked Rolling Lake 2-0 to earn a berth in the final, where they fell to International Falls. Rolling Lake finished third in the […]
