Jamie Mountain The Muskie girls’ and boys’ soccer teams hosted a pair of exhibition games yesterday afternoon at Fort High against the Rainy River Owls to get prepared for their upcoming season. The Muskie girls fell by a narrow score of 3-2 while the boys were victorious with a 3-0 […]
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Sam Odrowski Fort Frances High School students Jaykob Ryll (“Sir Galahad”), left, Brenden Laur (“King Arthur”), and Carmen Hebert (“Patsy”) took part in the first full-scale dress rehearsal of the comedic musical, “Spamalot,” last night on the Townshend Theatre stage. The musical, from the 1975 film, “Monty Python and the […]
Duane Hicks Kerry Zucchiatti of 93.1 The Border drew the May “Trip of the Month” draw winner while Kiwanian Robin Wright looked on this morning at International Travel Services here. Ted Scholten will be heading to Reykjavik, Iceland–a trip valued at $4,000. Next month’s trip is to Barcelona, Spain ($4,500).
Duane Hicks Danielle Krahn, left, her daughter, Trinity, and her grandmother (and Trinity’s great-grandmother) Anna McNay carefully chose where to put in their tickets at the penny table yesterday afternoon during the Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s annual spring luncheon held at the Robert Moore School gym. Following the theme […]
Duane Hicks The view from upstairs at the Fort Frances Curling Club provided an overview of all there was to do and see at the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s annual Business & Community Expo held Friday and Saturday. The Tbaytel-sponsored event, which featured about 40 local and out-of-town exhibitors, […]
Duane Hicks Allison Cox, left, the new director of the Riverside Foundation for Health Care, joined Riverside Foundation Special Events committee members Natalie DeGagne, Lynne Savage, and Livia Lundon in showing off some of the fabulous silent auction items donated for the annual spring luncheon slated for this Sunday (April […]
Sam Odrowski St. Michael’s School welcomed Gilbert Parent, founder of Les Bûcherons, for a presentation about French language and culture this morning. Parent did several French-related activites with the early-learning students, who participated in singing French songs, doing a circle dance, and line dancing. Other Catholic schools in the district […]
Sam Odrowski Casey Egan was among the many youngsters who had a chance to meet “Smokey the Bear” during J.W Walker’s Family Math and Arts Night held yesterday evening in the school gym. The Ministry of Natural Resources was at the event with “Smokey” to provide fire safety information to […]
Sam Odrowski Millie Witherspoon of the “Healthy Living Food Box” program helped to pack up Robert Derkson’s box containing lettuce, tomatoes, apples, oranges, bananas, local potatoes, and more last Wednesday afternoon. All are welcome to join the program.
Those attending “Spring Fever Days” in Emo on Saturday had a chance to drop by the “Farm Animal Petting Zoo” at Emo Feed that ran from 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Those who stopped in to see the animals had a chance to pet, interact, and even feed many of them.
Pat Costello, Princecraft business development manager, spoke to those attending the Nestor Falls Marine boat show at the Emo Arena about the company’s boats and products. He said the boat show had a fantastic turnout and that he had a great time speaking to people about Princecraft boats during “Spring […]
Duane Hicks The Catholic Women’s League of St. Mary’s Parish here proudly showed off the “Blessing Bags” they packed with donated items last Thursday afternoon at the “Welcome Home” Fort Frances Family Centre. The group included Beatrice Lambert (front left) and Linda Fleming, and Diane Revus (back left), Micaela Jensen, […]
