College to celebrate
The local campus will kick off Confederation College’s 50th anniversary celebration tomorrow in conjunction with the main campus in Thunder Bay and other ones across Northwestern Ontario.
The come-and-go event will run from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., and all students, alumni, employees, donors, partners, and community members are invited to attend.
Chamber asks town for grant
The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce is asking to be included in the town’s budget again this year.
The Chamber is asking the town for $8,500—the same amount it was granted in 2016—for tourism advertising.
This was a $1,000 increase from 2015.
Winter ritual
Northwoods Gallery & Gifts owner Doug Cuthbertson was out shovelling snow earlier today—a common sight around Borderland this winter as yet more of the white stuff fell. While anywhere from 7.5-15 cm (three-six inches) accumulated throughout the day, the good news is the snow will taper off by tonight, with no more forecast in the near future.
Polaris plans to drop unprofitable Victory Motorcycle brand
SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa — Polaris Industries will stop making its Victory motorcycles so it can focus on its Indian Motorcycle brand and other products.
Polaris announced Monday that it is shutting down the unprofitable Victory brand after 18 years. The motorcycles were produced at the Minneapolis-based company’s Spirit Lake, Iowa, and Spearfish, South Dakota, plants.
It’s all good: Any exercise cuts risk of death, study finds
Weekend warriors, take a victory lap. People who pack their workouts into one or two sessions a week lower their risk of dying over roughly the next decade nearly as much as people who exercise more often, new research suggests.
Even people who get less exercise than recommended have less risk than folks who don’t break a sweat at all.
FIFA to expand World Cup to 48 teams in 2026
ZURICH — FIFA will expand the World Cup to 48 teams, adding 16 extra nations to the 2026 tournament which is likely to be held in North America.
President Gianni Infantino’s favoured plan ‚Äî for 16 three-team groups with the top two advancing to a round of 32 ‚Äî was unanimously approved Tuesday by the FIFA Council.
Polar bear plan doesn’t seek direct action on climate change
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Five years ago, in a meeting room in Alaska, two dozen federal wildlife biologists joined other experts to begin formulating a recovery plan for polar bears because the animals’ primary habitat, sea ice, was melting beneath their feet in summer.
Slip-sliding away: Deer caught in headlights at dealership
ROSWELL, Ga. — A deer came barrelling through the showroom of an Atlanta area car dealership after jumping through an open window.
Local news outlets report the surprise visitor startled employees at Nalley Lexus in Roswell.
Our moon may have formed from multiple small ones
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A series of cosmic collisions may have spawned multiple moonlets that morphed into the one big moon we know today.
Rather than one giant impact that knocked off part of early Earth and created the moon, a number of smaller collisions may have produced lots of mini-moons, Israeli scientists reported Monday
Long-distance birdie call: Sex-crazed pipers travel for tail
WASHINGTON — You fly more than 100 miles for love. You get rejected. You fly another 100 miles. Another rejection. And another.
That’s the high-flying but futile sex life of the male pectoral sandpiper looking for love in northernmost Alaska, according to a new study.
US had near record heat, costly weather disasters in 2016
WASHINGTON — With steamy nights, sticky days and torrential downpours, last year went down as one of the warmest and wildest weather years on record in the United States.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday that 2016 was the second hottest year in the U.S. as Alaska warmed dramatically and nighttime temperatures set a record.