Jamie Mountain Jarrah Tom of the 10th-seeded Sabaskong Tebinaak smacked an inside-the-park home run during her squad’s 24-19 win over the fifth-seeded Fort Frances Mud Dogs in a Loser’s Side playoff game in Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League action last Wednesday evening at the St. Francis Sports Field here. […]
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Submitted Jeff Gustafson is hoping for five bass per day this week at the Forrest Wood Cup in Arkansas.
The Fort Frances Museum’s front entrance is getting revamped to accommodate those with accessibility issues. Construction workers were on-site this morning continuing to build a ramp while adding on a rail. -Sam Odrowski photo
Sam Odrowski A temporary “bailey bridge” now is being utilized on the south side of the overpass here as Makkinga Contracting and Equipment Rentals has begun replacing storm sewers and watermains that run underneath the roadway. The whole project is slated for completion by Oct. 19.
Jamie Mountain It was an all-out race up the pitch during the first half of Al’s Racquet Stringing’s 6-1 win over La Place Rendez-Vous in Borderland Soccer League women’s division action Tuesday evening at the St. Francis Sports Field. The two squads are slated to face each other again tonight […]
Stephanie Hagenaars Melanie Chin, an optometry summer student from the University of Waterloo working at Lidkea Optometry here, drew the August winner of the Fort Frances Kiwanis Club’s “Trip of the Month” at International Travel Services here yesterday morning while local Kiwanian Robin Wright looked on. Ron Fryer from Fort […]
Stephanie Hagenaars The Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre held a “Youth Knitting Night” yesterday evening for those eight years of age and up, bringing in community experts to help novice knitters learn the basics of the craft. Kathleen Guild-Gunderson of the Fireside Yarn Club, right, assisted a few novices […]
Sam Odrowski Ty West of “Shred Kelly” belted out some big notes as he and the band threw down a full out folk-rock set yesterday evening at the Rainy Lake Square. The high energy show, brought here by Tour de Fort and From the Grind Up, was the first concert […]
Sam Odrowski Children ages six to 10 tried to melt frozen T-shirts as part of a challenge during the “Survivor”-themed Square Days event held by the Fort Frances Museum in Rainy Lake Square yesterday afternoon. The “Red” team tried pulling on the shirt in all directions, which resulted in a […]
Curtis Jourdain shared a big smile from Toronto General Hospital’s Cardiac Ward yesterday afternoon. The 53-year-old man from Couchiching received a heart transplant last Monday (July 23) and is being monitored closely to ensure his body accepts the new heart. Jourdain is the oldest heart transplant recipient at the hospital. […]
Jamie Mountain Candace Handorgan of the Big Grassy Lynx looked to fire a pitch during her squad’s 12-7 loss to the fifth-seeded Fort Frances Mud Dogs in a Loser’s Side playoff matchup in Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League action Monday night at the St. Francis Sports Field. The sixth-seeded […]
Submitted Neil Haw demonstrated to the United Beef Club how to clip a calf’s head on Saturday.
