Jamie Mountain Heaven States, right, Grace Smith, and Joyce Wu all teamed up to outnumber their Sioux Lookout Warriors’ opponent defensively during the first half of the Muskie girls’ basketball team’s 53-33 win in their home-opener last Tuesday afternoon at Fort High. Tatum Glowasky scored a team-high 18 points to […]
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Ken Kellar Marcy Loveday, left, and D.J. McKay worked together on a pair of paintings during Community Living Fort Frances and District’s open air art studio held in the Shaw room at the Fort Frances Public Library yesterday. This week’s project was wrapped yarn resist birch tree painting, where the […]
Ken Kellar United Native Friendship Centre Aboriginal healing and wellness worker Deb Emes read from the book, “The Orange Shirt Story,” by Phyllis Webstad during the UNFC’s Orange Shirt Day ceremony yesterday. Webstad’s book is a recounting of her time in a residential school in British Columbia and the origins […]
Ken Kellar Billie Dittaro of Tagg’s Source for Sports and Kiwanian Robin Wright displayed the winning ticket this morning for the Fort Frances Kiwanis Club’s “Trip of the Month” draw for October at International Travel Services. This month’s winner was Alan Johnstone who won a New England cruise valued at […]
Ken Kellar Marcy Loveday, left, and D.J. McKay worked together on a pair of paintings during Community Living Fort Frances and District’s open air art studio held in the Shaw room at the Fort Frances Public Library yesterday. This week’s project was wrapped yarn resist birch tree painting, where the […]
Jamie Mountain Muskie running back Sean Huziak tried to stiff-arm his Churchill Bulldogs’ opponent as he made another big gain during the first quarter of Fort High’s 66-19 romp in their Winnipeg High School Football League home-opener on Friday here. Huziak rambled for 261 yards on 12 carries while punching […]
Ken Kellar Students at J.W. Walker School took part in their Terry Fox Run on Thursday afternoon. Schools from across the district held runs over the course of the week, helping to raise funds for research and awareness in the fight against cancer. According to the Terry Fox Foundation, more […]
Jamie Mountain Stone Stelzl attempted to gather and shoot the puck on Dryden GM Ice Dogs’ goalie Jacob Anthony during the first period of the Fort Frances Lakers’ 4-3 loss on Friday night at the Ice For Kids Arena. The Lakers then lost by that same score on Saturday night […]
Jamie Mountain Joanna Empey (35) and Simone Payne tried their best to keep their Sioux Lookout Warriors’ opponent from advancing the ball up the court during the second half of the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team’s 49-1 rout in their NorWOSSA home-opener last Tuesday afternoon at Fort High. Alina Eldridge […]
All the play was pushed inside to this colouring table after the rain began to fall at the Alberton Fall Fun Day on Sunday. The event drew out a handful of people to socialize and share in the potluck dinner even as the rain put a damper on things outside […]
Ken Kellar Harper Gunderson, left, and Mckenna McTavish had fun painting their own personalized paddles as a part of a visual arts workshop at the “I Am Awesome (And I Know It)” self-esteem retreat on Friday. Girls at the retreat spent Thursday evening through Sunday participating in self-esteem building workshops […]
This residential school monument was made to honour 154 Rainy River First Nations band members who attended Indian residential school. It is a tribute to the perseverance and courage of residential school survivors. -Sam Odrowski photo
