Fort Frances Times Online Edition - January 27, 2016

Carole Mackintosh looked on as her husband, Angus, delivered the address to the haggis during the “Rabbie Burns” dinner hosted by the Emo and District Lions Club on Saturday night at the Emo Legion. The event also featured music by “Entirely Mac,” dancing by the Fort Frances Highlanders, and the singing of “Auld Lang Syne.”

An array of performers took to the stage last Thursday evening during a fundraising talent show that kicked off the 2016 season of the Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts.

“The talent show went very well,” enthused Festival committee chair David Schwartz.

“I was very happy with the number of people that were there.”

The new exhibit, “Portrait Photography: A View in the Past,” is now up at the Fort Frances Museum. The exhibit, which is divided up into categories such as facial hair, wedding photos, and much more, will run through to the end of April.

Raymond Roy doesn’t believe in pointing fingers at others.

Rather, the Fort Frances skip was more than willing to shoulder the blame after a 7-1 loss in four ends Sunday to Gord Williams (Thunder Bay) in the final of the Masters (60-and-over) men’s provincial curling championship in Geraldton.

Performers from the Calgary-based dance troupe, “Decidedly Jazz Danceworks,” discovered a clue to help them find “jazz” during “The Great Jazz History Mystery” last Wednesday night at the Townshend Theatre as part of the Kids & Company entertainment series. Inspired by Looney Tunes, Dr.

Nolan Ross has got some superb breakaway skills.

He’s not bad at deflections, either, be they pucks or praise.

The Fort Frances native scored the only goal of the shootout to give the host Lakers a 3-2 victory over the Minnesota Iron Rangers on Saturday night at the Ice For Kids Arena.

The days of SIJHL opponents being in heavier rotation than a Madonna video on MTV in the 1980s may be starting to reach their end.

Fort Frances Lakers’ head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan is encouraged with news Friday of a conditional franchise being granted by the league to Thief River Falls, Mn. for the start of next season.

Nolan Ross had Minnesota Iron Rangers’ goalie Anthony Pupplo down and out as he sent home what would be the only goal of the shootout in a 3-2 victory for the Fort Frances Lakers on Saturday iat the Ice For Kids Arena.

SAN FRANCISCO Apple is bracing for its first sales decline in 13 years, despite selling a record 74.8 million iPhones in the final three months of 2015, in what may prove to be a turning point for the world’s most valuable company.

Two major U.S. airlines are offering refunds to passengers worried about the Zika virus outbreak in many tropical countries.

United Airlines says customers booked to fly to areas affected by the virus can reschedule or get refunds. American Airlines says it will give refunds to pregnant women who were planning to travel to parts of Central America.

CHICAGO A federal judge in Chicago gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a reworked head-injury settlement between thousands of former college athletes and the NCAA that includes a $70 million fund to test for brain trauma.

MOSCOW Syrian refugees should be given an opportunity to cast their ballots in the country’s future elections, Russia’s security chief has told The Associated Press, adding that the international community should focus on creating conditions for a free vote in Syria.

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil’s health minister says the country is sending some 220,000 troops to battle the mosquito blamed for spreading a virus suspected of causing birth defects - but he also says the war is already being lost.

STANFORD, Calif. Rising tension between Russia and the U.S., North Korea’s recent nuclear test and a lack of aggressive steps to address climate change are putting the world under grave threat, scientists behind a “Doomsday Clock” that measures the likelihood of a global cataclysm said Tuesday.

BERLIN Public-sector corruption is still a major problem around the world but more countries are improving than worsening and the United States and United Kingdom have reached their best rankings ever, an anti-corruption watchdog said Wednesday.

STONY BROOK, N.Y. Melanie Chirichella had been waiting a year and a half for a kidney transplant when she finally got the call from her doctors Saturday that they had found a perfect match in South Carolina.

“It was like a miracle,” the 64-year-old told The Associated Press. “When she called and said, ‘We have a kidney for you,’ I almost fell off the bed.”

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