The Big tent is up. On Saturday September 18 at the close of ceremonies the WRRD Lions will draw the winners of its 2021 Princecraft Vectra 21 Pontoon Boat. Will you be the lucky winner? Make sure you get your ticket today! Only $20.00 each
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Last month, a group of local motocross competitors took part in a double header event in Kekabeka Falls. The two day event resulted in several top finishes for local riders. – Submitted photos
Chantal Derendorf of Batter and Cream Baking Co. was just one of the vendors on hand at the farm market put on by Emo Feed on August 28. the market ran two Saturdays and saw a handful of local crafters and artists attend. –Megan Walchuk photo
Bodie Crowe joined hundreds of kids across the District who are making the trek to school today, for the first day of the 2021/22 school year. It’s the first time Ontario’s students have had in-person learning since a province-wide move to remote learning last Spring Break. With school busses and […]
World skeet champion Brad McRae is giving shooting tips and tricks to local chiropractor Jeremy McGuire during a clinic held a few weeks ago. These skills will be put to practice during the shoot-off will take place on September 11 at the Fort Frances Sportsmen’s Club Skeet Range. There will […]
Jesse Carmody of NCDS pulled the winning ticket for the Kiwanis Club Trip of the Month draw for September this morning. Dawson Mihichuk was the winner of a Newfoundland Self- Drive trip valued at $3,800. October’s draw is for a Banff Ski Package ($3,800). –Ken Kellar photo
Ontario Premier Doug Ford embarked on a whirlwind tour of the Rainy River District on Wednesday, August 25, 2021, that took him from Fort Frances to Rainy River and almost everywhere in-between. Ford and Kenora-Rainy River MPP Greg Rickford started off the day in Fort Frances with a tour of […]
This week we sat down with driver of the #28 Emo Street Stock, Doug Derendorf. What is your favourite race track food? Hamburgers and cheeseburgers. When did you start racing? 1973 in the V8 car class. There were no modified or street stocks then, just V8 cars and V6 cars. […]
The Fort Frances Lakers were excited to commemorate the first Lakers Power Play Pogo sold with a keepsake photo. Jackson Olsen was their first customer for the new fundraising enterprise. The Lakers were gifted the Odd Fellows “Odd Dog” recipe and fryer, and have since revived them as Lakers Power […]
Science is a blast, especially when Science North hits the road and brings it right to your hometown. Thanks to a little government funding to help reinvigorate local tourism, the organization was behind the Great Northern Ontario Roadtrip, a travelling expo, vendor market and science show that made its first […]
Constable Ashley Gibbs from Treaty 3 Police gathered along with Couchiching Chief Brian Perrault and Fort Frances Mayor June Caul to celebrate three graduates from the Youth in Policing Initiative program (Y.I.P.I.). The event was also attended by an elder who gave words of wisdom and followed by a ceremony […]
Ontario Premier Doug Ford made a stop in Fort Frances this morning as part of a district-wide tour. Ford, along with MPP Greg Rickford, were at Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre, where a presentation by Science North was given to them as they prepare for the launch of the […]
