Heather Latter Angela Mitchelson, left, with her sons, Garon and Roen, along with Linda Reed and Carol Bujold, enjoyed refreshments at the La Verendrye Hospital Auxiliary’s fall tea Saturday afternoon at the New Beginnings Fellowship Church. The auxiliary also presented a cheque for $10,000 for bariatric beds at the hospital.
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Lucas Punkari Muskie Shelby Tymkin fired a shot towards Rainy River Community College Voyageurs’ goalie Randi Stewart during a scrimmage Friday afternoon at the ‘52 Canadians Arena here. The black-and-gold are preparing for their home tournament this coming weekend, which gets underway Friday afternoon and runs until Sunday. The Voyageurs, […]
Staff With Hallowe’en coming up in two weeks, yard displays like this one on Daniel Avenue home are popping up all over town. Let’s hope not many were blown away by the blustery winds over the weekend.
Duane Hicks Having already torn down the J.A. Mathieu section of the building, 1578389 Ontario Ltd., the owners of the old Fort Frances High School, have moved onto the central portion of the building and, working rain or shine, are making good progress. They will leave standing the shop class […]
Duane Hicks Natalie Ducharme, four, seen here with Canadian Tire sports manager Jordan Marsh and fire safety specialist Wayne Riches, was all smiles last Thursday when she went to Canadian Tire to pick out the bike she had won in a draw at the semi-annual fire safety blitz by the […]
Lucas Punkari Amy Norris, left, Brookelyn Marchuk, and Isabella Avis (background) skated around the centre ice face-off circle at the Ice For Kids Arena yesterday evening as they participated in CanSkate lessons with the Border Skating Club.
Duane Hicks Barb Marr pulled up loops on the “summer” panel of the “What Hooks You Here?” community rug-hooking project yesterday at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre. A long-time cross-stitcher, Marr made the leap to rug-hooking and has worked on the project from the start. Meanwhile, 15 members […]
Heather Latter Gruen Von Behrens, a national spokesperson for Oral Health America’s National Spit Tobacco Education Program (NSTEP), stopped at Fort Frances High School this morning to share his story as he tours across the region. Von Behrens was diagnosed with oral cancer as the age of 17 and after […]
Heather Latter Glenn Westover (back left), Gwen Westover, June Keddie, Florence Hill, Pat Crewson, and Anne Anderson, along with Monica Hanzuk (front left), Martha Rogozinski, and Laura McConnell, received certificates of life membership from the Rainycrest Auxiliary yesterday afternoon. Also recognized, but not in attendance, were Esther Fedoruk, Barbara Gustafson, […]
Peggy Revell Aiden Wielinga, Wyatt McLeod, Jesse Quesnell, and Davis Wielinga had a blast with the gigantic pile of leaves they gathered and put on a backyard trampoline yesterday sfternoon. Alas, the glorious fall weather Borderland has been seeing over the past few weeks is set to end, with rain […]
Peggy Revell Taylor Whitehead and Nolan Spuzak hunted for garbage by the Sorting Gap Marina as Grade 7-8 students from J.W. Walker participated in last Wednesday’s “Great Canadian Shoreline Clean-up.” The annual event saw the students clean up and write down every piece of litter they could find along the […]
Heather Latter Aiden Morrisseau, left, and Sheldon Kelly had a lesson on dancing the wild rice last Wednesday morning outside the Nanicost building as part of the “Fall Harvest” hosted by the Seven Generations Education Institute here. Students from across the district came out for the annual three-day event, learning […]
