Being told by the coaches that your chances of making a team aren’t very good isn’t exactly the type of feedback a player wants to hear. But that’s exactly what happened to Muskie senior basketball player Evan Woodlands at the Northern Ontario tryouts in Sudbury earlier this week. Woodlands admitted […]
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The OFSAA 2000 soccer committee has decided to use four fields when Fort Frances hosts the all-Ontario girls’ soccer championship next June. The decision, reached at last week’s general meeting, is the best way to organize a 16-team, four-pool tournament, co-organizer Jason Kabel said. Tournament officials originally had planned to […]
When Tyler Cannon, 10, went fishing with his best pal, Alex Shoemaker, nine, on their first “Kids for Fishing” trip Saturday, he did what any young angler would do for a pal and lent him a piece of tackle. While Cannon caught his own small perch, little did he know […]
The four-year-old softball diamonds at St. Francis do not drain properly. After a rainfall, players can expect to find several pools of water lying on the playing surface on all three. “Something should be done,” local resident Bill Hamilton said as he looked at the centre diamond. Community Services manager […]
The Fort Frances gymnastics clubs are very excited because Mike Lang of Thunder Bay has accepted the job as head coach starting Aug. 1. Lang started coaching for the Thunder Bay Twisters club 25 years ago. When that club amalgamated with the Thunder Bay Gymnastics Association, he became a competitive […]
Some area students will have to forsake the luxury of sleeping in starting Monday in favour of sharpening their minds as summer school gets underway here, in Emo, and Atikokan. Warren Hoshizaki, director of education for the Rainy River District School Board, noted how glad he was to see everything […]
Despite tired muscles, aching backs, and sun and wind-burned faces, the 27 participants in the “Canoe for Cancer” reunion sported big grins as they were welcomed home by bagpipe music and cheers Sunday afternoon. The canoeists, ranging in age from 22 to 63, had paddled 53 miles over four days […]
In many ways, last Thursday’s graduation ceremony for Fort Frances High School was a night of “lasts.” The class of ’99 was the last to graduate out of old Fort High on First Street East. And, with the year 2000 right around the corner, it was the last class to […]
Six missing buoys were discovered by Craig Coughlin, a navigable waters protection officer for the coast guard, during a patrol of Rainy Lake last week. He described the situation as “not bad.” “There were a few buoys that were damaged that we replaced, and maybe half a dozen that were […]
Katie Pierroz got the Miss Fun in the Sun pageant off on the right foot by taking top honours in the talent portion Sunday night at Robert Moore School. Dressed in a rainbow of colours, Pierroz, 17, pirouetted her way to the top of the judges’ scoresheets–something she was surprised […]
There seems to be no end to the number of talented folk in the area and next month’s inaugural “Summer Quest,” being held July 21 in conjunction with the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, has 20 contestants signed up to prove it. “We have a lot of new faces this […]
The 90-year-old landmark residence at 335 Nelson St., which had been known as St. Jude’s Convent since 1919, will head into the new millennium with an updated mission–and name. New owners Nancy and Gord Witherspoon are slated to open “St. Jude’s Gourmet Coffee” in early August, offering up a wide […]
