Fort Frances Times Online Edition - February 20, 2018

At Riverside Health Care, we are dedicated to providing our residents and staff with a safe and healthy environment that delivers the highest quality of care.

The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care temporarily has ceased admissions at Rainycrest Long-Term Care in order that we can rectify some areas of non-compliance.

The tides have been starting to shift for the Fort Frances Lakers of late.

After snapping a six-game losing streak on Wednesday with a 6-3 win over the lowly Minnesota Iron Rangers in Hoyt Lakes, the Lakers carried that momentum into the weekend by taking five of six points at the Ice For Kids Arena.

What a way to cap an excellent season.

The Muskie junior girls' volleyball team swept their way to NorWOSSA gold Friday afternoon in Dryden with a straight-sets win over the host Eagles in the best-of-five final.

Set scores were 25-19, 25-15, and 21-19.

The Muskies had earned the bye to the final after finishing with a league-best 7-1 record during the regular season.

In the spirit of Family Day, Ava Cousineau, left, and her dad, Tyler, worked together during a soapstone carving workshop yesterday morning at the Fort Frances Public Library. A morning and afternoon session—both of which were full—saw family members co-operate to carve beavers, foxes, bears, and other indigenous animals using soapstone carving kits.

Josh Krasaukas of the Thunder Bay North End Flames fired a shot on the Fort Frances Armstrong Crushers' net during his team's 1-0 shutout win in Sunday's 'B' final of the Fort Frances Minor Hockey Association's Novice tournament at the Ice For Kids Arena. In the 'C' final, meanwhile, Fort Frances Taggs fell 4-1 to the Kenora Strone.

The Good Samaritans team from International Falls dug in hard during their first preliminary race Saturday afternoon at the inaugural FMG Ice Dragons Challenge hosted by the local International Boundary Waters Dragon Boat Club on the ice behind La Place Rendez-Vous here.

TORONTO—As the Ontario legislature resumed sitting today for the final session before a spring election, former Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown says he won't be there to take his seat.

The 39-year-old politician from Barrie, Ont. told the radio station CKLW in Windsor this morning that he'll be outside of Toronto today, campaigning to regain party leadership.

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is raising the idea of creating a use-it-or-lose-it funded leave for new dads, doing so days before he unveils a spending blueprint that has been the focus of lobbying efforts for further changes to national parental leave policies.

It was a golden farewell for Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir but an Olympic debut to remember for Cassie Sharpe.

In what likely was their final competitive performance, Virtue and Moir won ice dance figure skating gold at the Pyeongchang Games after scoring 122.40 points in Tuesday's free skate for a world-best combined score of 206.07.

NEW YORK—Minnesota knows it needs to play better on the road to strengthen its push for a playoff spot.

The Wild also want to do a better job of holding third-period leads than they have lately.

They accomplished both yesterday against the N.Y. Islanders.

Matt Cullen and Tyler Ennis scored in Minnesota's three-goal second period as the Wild beat the Islanders 5-3.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—The No. 3 is No. 1 again at Daytona—on a day, in a race, and at a place forever linked with the great Dale Earnhardt.

Austin Dillon won the Daytona 500 on Sunday night driving the iconic No. 3 Chevrolet that Earnhardt piloted for most of his career.

LONDON — Fried-chicken fans were in a flutter Monday after most of the 900 KFC outlets in the U.K. and Ireland were forced to close because of a shortage of chicken

The company apologized to customers, blaming “teething problems” with its new delivery partner, DHL.

WASHINGTON — Breaking down barriers is nothing new for Sen. Tammy Duckworth, and that’s the way she likes it.

The decorated Iraq War veteran who lost both legs when her helicopter was shot down is an Asian-American woman in the mostly white, mostly male and very fusty Senate. And now, with a baby due in April, she’ll be the first senator to give birth while in office.

It will be clear to partly cloudy tonight, with an overnight low of minus-19 C (two below zero F) and west winds gusting up to 13 km/h.

Tomorrow will be sunny, with a high of minus-eight (17) and low around minus-21 (five below).

Winds will be west-southwesterly, gusting up to 20 km/h.