Ken Kellar Ryleigh Tucker showed off the yarn creation she made at “Tween Club” at the Fort Frances Library Technology Centre yesterday. The club used yards of yarn, cardboard discs and glue to create pom-poms and other fibrous figures. The “Tween Club” meets at the library each Monday from 4-5 […]

Submitted Mayor June Caul did a stint behind bars on Saturday during the Fort Frances Voyageur Lions’ annual “Bail or Jail” fundraiser at the Fort Frances Curling Club, in conjunction with the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s Business and Community Expo. Mayor Caul was serving hard time after being charged […]

Sam Odrowski Blayne Orr carefully snipped off a couple tree branches by the Sorting Gap Marina during the community tree care workshop hosted by the Fort Frances Museum and Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry on Saturday afternoon. Attendees used a variety of tree care tools to trim and remove […]

Ken Kellar Ryleigh Tucker showed off the yarn creation she made at “Tween Club” at the Fort Frances Library Technology Centre yesterday. The club used yards of yarn, cardboard discs and glue to create pom-poms and other fibrous figures. The “Tween Club” meets at the library each Monday from 4-5 […]

Sam Odrowski The Fort Frances Choraliers brought the sweet sounds of Easter-themed songs to a large group of residents at Rainycrest’s Hallett Hall on Saturday afternoon. The theme of this year’s Easter cantana was “Hope Alive in Me,” and following the Rainycrest performance, the choraliers sung at the Zion Lutheran […]

Sam Odrowski Mrs. Sieders’ and Mrs. Wood’s classes at St. Michaels School shared some smiles last Thursday on “Career Day” where students throughout the school wore outfits depicting the jobs they want to work when they grow up. Some students dressed up as professional hockey players while others put on […]

Jamie Mountain It was all a matter of who was going to retrieve the ball first as the Muskie and Rainy River Owl girls’ soccer teams renewed their rivalry on Thursday afternoon in exhibition action at Fort High. The black-and-gold prevailed in both games, with the girls’ squad winning 2-0 […]

Sam Odrowski The 908 Rainy Lake Air Cadets were selling for their meat and BBQ draw at their booth during the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s Business & Community Expo on Saturday at the Fort Frances Curling Club. The funds raised from the draw will be used to offset the […]

Sam Odrowski Kathy Foy, left, and Pam Rittau of the United Native Friendship Centre invite members of the public to come to their main building located on 516 Portage Ave. and view their display honouring indigenous women for “Red Dress Day.” If anybody would like to honour an indigenous women […]

Staff Chantal Derendorf, left, Jaana Georgeson and Sheri Georgeson chose where to put their tickets at the penny table during “Mama’s Gone Country Chic,” this year’s spring fundraiser luncheon for the Riverside Foundation for Health Care, which was held Saturday upstairs at the Emo-La Vallee Community Centre. All funds from […]

Sam Odrowski Donald Young School students tested their skills at the Mazinibii’an gaye Nisidotan station during the 20th-annual “Quest for Knowledge” event yesterday at Rainy River First Nation. The station’s English translation was “Draw it and Understand it” and it was in a Pictionary-style format where teams had to guess […]

Jamie Mountain Sean Huziak powered up and leapt through the air during the boys’ long jump event at the Bronco Booster Track & Field Invite varsity meet at Falls High School on Tuesday. Huziak finished seventh with a jump of 16′,4″.