Zoey Duncan The Borderland Soccer League playoffs got off to a tumultuous start with a pair of semi-final upsets last night. Taggs Source for Sports, above, shocked first-place Boston Pizza 8-2 thanks to three goals apiece from Stephanie Mattson and Blaire Harnett while Courtney Roach netted the other two. In […]
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Peggy Revell Onigaming First Nation youth Megan Bob and elder/band councillor Fred Kelly chatted as the new pontoon boat which the community has invested in sped out onto Crow Lake on Friday morning for its inaugural trip, where tobacco was offered at different sites along the lake. The new boat […]
Zoey Duncan Joe Ball avoided being tagged by Ben Whitburn as Braeden Webb, background, readied himself for a possible pass during a game of touch football yesterday. Members of last year’s Muskie football team will be playing Sunday afternoons starting at noon to work on fundamentals of the game, with […]
Peggy Revell Fort Frances Horticultural Society president Nadia Felix, left, and Vicky Wishart examined the beautiful flower arrangements that had been entered in this year’s flower and vegetable show Saturday at the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market here. Wishart actually took home two trophies—one for most points and the other for […]
Lucas Punkari Manitou pitcher Charlie DeBungee fired a pitch last night, as his team went up against the top-ranked Beef’s Warriors in Rainy River District Fastball League playoff action here. Manitou would end up losing the game by a score of 10-0, with Beef’s Warriors getting two homeruns from Kimbi […]
Heather Latter Gareth Dunn, left, and Chase Curtis identified the three basic types of rocks—igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic—yesterday during day two of the “Mining Matters” workshop at the Confederation College campus here in Fort Frances. Sponsored by Rainy River Resources, adults and youth alike have been learning about geology. The […]
Heather Latter Youth and adults participating in this year’s “Walk for Good Life” arrived in Couchiching First Nation yesterday for lunch. The group is completing a seven day, 500-km journey for aboriginal youth to walk and learn together.
Heather Latter Shayna Gagnon, left, along with Bryce Gagnon and Alex Thornton rested atop the jungle gym at the Lions Park yesterday morning. The youngsters, hailing from Sault Ste. Marie and Surrey, BC, were visiting relatives in Fort Frances.
Zoey Duncan Canada Safeway pharmacy manager David Schwartz said while Champix and Zyban are important parts of a stop-smoking plan for many people, they need to be accompanied by counselling to be most effective. The drugs will be added to the Ontario Drug Benefits Plan Aug. 4.
Dave Ogilvie Kim Jo Bliss, research technician at the Emo Agricultural Research Station, with help from John Rowsell, the head of the Northern Stations, led a group of more than 50 interested individuals, last Wednesday, on a walking tour of the various experimental crops. Following the tour, attendees enjoyed some […]
Lucas Punkari Kimbi Copenace of Beef’s Warriors tried to make a double-play for his team to get out of an inning during the RRDFL all-star game in Barwick on Thursday evening. Copenace’s side would capture the game by score of 7-0, in what was the final game for players before […]
Lucas Punkari Jake Froemke made his way through turn one during a novice class heat race at the Emo go-kart track on Friday evening. Froemke captured the first heat race of the night on Friday while AJ Kellar captured the other heat and feature wins. The advanced class saw Wyatt […]
