Hundreds of people participated in an awareness walk and inclusive pow wow put on by several local agencies and organizations on Friday, September 30, 2022, the National Day for Truth and Reconcili- ation. The walk began at the Sorting Gap Marina in Fort Frances and proceeded along the waterfront to […]
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By Olivia Seguin
4-H correspondent
4-H correspondent
Our last 4-H meeting was hosted on Saturday, September 24th at the Seniors Center in Stratton. Our meeting was about scrapbooking. We started the meeting with the 4-H pledge and taking attendance; Jessica Teeple, Sydney Romyn, Georgia Romyn, Emily Romyn, Rihanna Morrison, Olivia Seguin, Melania Olson, Hailey Wilson, Mason Teeple […]
Riverside Foundation for Health Care is excited to announce that the winner of the September Riverside 50/50 electronic raffle is Ethel Lowey of Fort Frances, ON with the winning ticket number V-8379842. Lowey takes home $12,055, with the same amount going to the Foundation. The draw was made Friday, September […]
The Fort Frances Muskies golf team capped a successful season last week with final wins at their home course at Kitchen Creek. The Muskie Girls team took top girls honours for the season. In individual competition Marlee Bliss took gold while Logan McPherson took the silver. In boys play, Fort […]
Last Thursday afternoon the Fort Frances Muskie football team got their first win of the season with a dominating 49 – 6 win over West Kildonan from Winnipeg in their homecoming game. West Kildonan entered the game undefeated and in first place in the Currie Division of the Winnipeg HS […]
The ice is down at the Fort Frances Curling Club with competition slated to get underway on October 10. Most leagues are closed but there may be some leeway, to sign up as a spare contact the curling club. This year also marks the return of Learn to Curl program […]
The Fort Frances Muskies Football team celebrated after a well-deserved 49-6 win over West Kildonan during the Muskies homecoming game, September 29. The team heads back to Winnipeg for the next two weeks to face off against St. John’s and Kildonan East, before ending regular season play on home soil, […]
Organizers of the Truth and Reconciliation Day events saw a spectacular showing of support and solidarity, as hundreds gathered for a march, which wound its way from the Sorting Gap Marina to the site of the the former St Margaret’s residential school. The day was marked with prayers, drumming, emotional […]
CIBC Fort Frances branch general manager Emma Govier pulled the winning ticket for the Fort Frances Kiwanis Club’s Trip of the Month draw for September this morning. Shirley and Neil Whitefield of Fort Frances are the winners of a trip to New York City, valued at $3,800. Next month’s draw […]
Mayor June Caul and Recreation and Culture Manager Tyler Young unveil a restored mural which was rescued before the demolition of the Rainy Lake Hotel. This depiction of the mill property by artist Helen Strickland and it’s partner which depicts the Noden Causeway now hang in the ‘52 Canadians arena. […]
Press Release
THUNDER BAY, ON The SIJHL is announcing today that the September 24, 2022 game featuring the Thunder Bay North Stars at Fort Frances Lakers, originally recorded as an 8-1 victory for the North Stars has been declared a forfeit in favour of Fort Frances as a result of a player […]
Grade seven and eight students are pelted with colourful pigments as they run around the track at Fort Frances High School last Friday afternoon. High school students followed. The school uses the colour run as a way to raise funds and awareness for cancer research via the Terry Fox Foundation […]
