With the night growing darker, Lori Cain lit one of the luminaries along the pathway. Each luminary was adorned with the name of friends and family who have faced cancer.

Peggy Revell While just red and white kerchiefs that went into the bag “Magic Ken” is holding, Tyler Jensen ended up pulling out a green kerchief—one of the many tricks and jokes at the magic show held in the Fort Frances Museum’s courtyard last Friday during “Mall Days.”

Elisabeth Heslop Jennifer Coats worked on a watercolour painting of dying tulips at a workshop taught by former local artist Linda Lovisa at the Fine Line Art Gallery here last Wednesday. Lovisa, in town for a visit, still is a member of the gallery and also taught a class in […]

Samantha Stone, left, newly-crowned as the 2009 mini-queen, posed with 2008 mini-queen Callahan Wiedenhoeft on Friday on the front steps of the museum. The 34th-annual mini-queen pageant and the third-annual mini-king contest were held as part of the BIA’s “Mall Days.”

Elisabeth Heslop 2008 mini-king Christian Wiedenhoeft draped the royal robe around the shoulders of this year’s mini-king, Nolan Mann, during “Mall Days” on Friday.

Peggy Revell Mark Kowalchuk, chair of the fundraising campaign for the new library, showed Fort Frances RBC branch manager Heather Johnson some of the conceptual drawings for the planned area for teenagers—to be named the “RBC Teen Zone” following a donation of $25,000 to the project by the RBC Foundation.

Submitted Christine Borden congratulated Jennifer Friday on her successful completion of the Azhemiinagoziwin Program during the Seven Generation Education Institute’s annual graduation ceremony held June 18.

Elisabeth Heslop Well-known local artist Vi Plumridge has decided to take advantage of Fort Frances’ market for souvenirs by starting up her own business, matching her paintings of historical buildings around town with mugs, notebooks, fridge magnets, and other souvenir-type objects.

Peggy Revell Debbie Barnard and Pam Bujold held onto Maggie Carlson’s hands during the “survivors’ lap” of this year’s “Relay for Life” held overnight Friday at Pither’s Point. This lap, which kicked off the 12-hour event, was made to honour those who had survived after being diagnosed with cancer at […]

Elisabeth Heslop Lauren Gurski, accompanied by Christina Empey on keyboard, sang for her fellow graduates at the Memorial Sports Centre last Thursday night.

Karen Green gave the valedictory speech to her peers of the secondary and post-secondary education programs.

Mitch Calvert The Muskie spring football camp last week put prospective junior players through a variety of drills, including this one that focused on proper tackling technique.