Sarah Pruys Erika Moffitt and Gavin Moorhouse were honoured last Tuesday night as the female and male ‘Athlete of the Year’ during the annual Muskie athletic awards banquet at Fort High. The two graduating students both had excelled in basketball, volleyball, and soccer throughout their high school careers.
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Duane Hicks Northern Lights Credit Union branch manager Marla Thomson put up another paper “bra” on the wall this morning. The credit union is selling them for $2 each, with the proceeds going to the Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s “Together We Can” campaign to purchase a digital mammography unit […]
Sarah Pruys People read the luminaries as they walked the first lap around the track at Fort High together on Friday evening to kick off the annual “Relay for Life” here. The event raised $81,213—a record for Fort Frances. Some 22 teams participated in the event, walking all night to […]
Heather Latter Local author Jack Hedman was busy selling and signing copies of his recently-published book, “The Gift of Gab: A Collection of Recollections,” on Saturday at Northwoods Gallery & Gifts here. The book features three tall tales as told by the late bus driver, Sid Asselin, who passed away […]
Sarah Pruys Rilee Armstrong, an early learning student at Robert Moore School, had a great time Friday at the “play day” for two reasons. First, she got to play parachute games, and two, it was her birthday. Groups of children rotated through different stations playing soccer, tug-of-war, and having three-legged […]
Heather Latter Players in Division IV (under age 13) of Fort Frances Youth Soccer battled it out at the St. Francis Field on Saturday during the final game of the season. The year-end wind-ups continue tonight at 5:30 p.m. for Division I (under age seven) while the Squirts (under age […]
Heather Latter Erika Danylchuk showed off her diploma yesterday during the Fort Frances Nursery School’s graduation ceremony at Knox United Church here. The wind-up event featured a bouncy castle, a penny table, and delicious food. The pre-school program, for children aged two-five, will start up again in September, with registration […]
Sarah Pruys Justine Linklater, eight, blew a few bubbles yesterday at the multi-use facility on Couchiching. The band was celebrating “Treaty Day,” where the community came together to share meals and play games.
Heather Latter Sandra Parent accepted her Ontario Secondary School Diploma from principal Sean Taggart yesterday during the Seven Generations Education Institute’s 21st-annual graduation ceremony at the Memorial Sports Centre. More than 100 grads were presented with secondary and post-secondary diplomas, certificates, degrees, bursaries, and awards.
Heather Latter Gladys Martin, left, was busy yesterday afternoon dishing up delicious strawberry shortcake at the annual “Strawberry Social” hosted by the La Verendrye General Hospital Auxiliary. The event, which was moved inside the hospital due to the inclement weather, also featured a plant sale, book sale, penny table, and […]
Sarah Pruys Emily Drouin, Mary Strain, Chantal Jodoin, and Erika Moffitt—the graduating players on the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team—received “net” hats from their coaches Tuesday evening during the annual athletic awards banquet at Fort High. All four won other awards, including Moffitt as the female Muskie Athlete of the […]
Heather Latter Staff with the local Supervised Access Program posed together during an open house Tuesday afternoon at the Kenora-Rainy River Child and Family Services building here. The program was celebrating its 20th anniversary.
