Joey Payeur Myan Miller of Taggs showed a good head for the game while being shadowed by Shaelyn Jordan of Al’s Racquet Stringing during the Borderland Soccer League’s women’s division regular-season opener last Thursday. Al’s won the game 6-3 but then lost 8-1 to the defending champion La Place Rendez-Vous […]
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Duane Hicks A crew from Pioneer Construction started laying down the second lift of asphalt on King’s Highway between Wright Avenue and Cornwall Avenue yesterday. It is expected to take three days to pave that stretch of highway, which received its first lift of asphalt last fall. The highway will […]
Heather Latter Jaxon Grimard, left, and Jonah Homer were reading under the “stars” yesterday at Robert Moore School, where their Early Years classroom had been transformed into “Camp Read-A-Lot”—complete with trees, tents, and even a canoe. All three Early Years classes are participating in the week-long camp, which includes plenty […]
Heather Latter Janet Minor, treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada, checked out the law library at the Fort Frances Courthouse yesterday while on a tour led by Jennifer Coombe, Supervisor of Court Operations. Minor met with the chiefs of Couchiching First Nation and Grand Council Treaty #3 in […]
Duane Hicks Aimee McEvoy received her Social Service Worker diploma from Confederation College president Jim Madder during the 2016 convocation for the Rainy River District campus yesterday evening at the Townshend Theatre. Three dozen students graduated from the local campus this year—among the college’s 1,500 grads from across the region.
Joey Payeur Whitney Guimond of the Couchiching Lady Raiders was in full stride but still a bit late reaching first base as Caylee Woolsey of the visiting Fort Frances Her-icanes caught the throw from third baseman Dana Ward during yesterday’s Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League makeup game at the […]
Duane Hicks A small but dedicated group of dog-lovers took a riverfront stroll with their pooches yesterday afternoon for the 11th-annual “Purina Walk for Dog Guides” organized by the Fort Frances Voyageur Lions Club. The event, held across Canada to raise funds for the five dog guide training programs at […]
Joey Payeur Jess Badiuk of Taggs wasn’t going to make it easy for Jennie Dyck (27) of Al’s Racquet Stringing to get past during the first half of Al’s 6-3 win yesterday evening as the Borderland Soccer League kicked off another season of action.
Duane Hicks Causeway General Insurance Brokers Ltd. sales manager John Homer, left, and account manager Joanne Bliss served up pulled pork sandwiches and refreshments yesterday during a community appreciation lunch at their 229 Scott St. location. The business has been growing lately, noted Homer, and Causeway wanted to give back […]
Heather Latter Ma-Nee Chacaby, a Two-Spirit Ojibwa-Cree elder, conducted a workshop during a student symposium yesterday at La Place Rendez-Vous that focused on LGBTQ-Straight Alliance School-Based Programs. Through a series of keynote speakers and workshops, more than 60 students from four different school boards learned about inclusivity. This was the […]
Duane Hicks Nadine Mutz, left, and Andrea Avis learned more about the proposed Rainy Lake Market Square from landscape architect David Bodnarchuk of Scatliff + Miller + Murray during yesterday afternoon’s come-and-go open house at the Scott Street site.
Heather Latter Kevin Welbes Godin (OECTA–Special Project Co-ordinator: Equity and Inclusion) from EGALE spoke during an open chat session about available LGBTQ support services Tuesday at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre. “Community Chat Rooms” on other topics likely are to be held there down the road.
