Some hardware for Steve Arpin on the weekend at the ARCA/ReMax Series Championship Banquet.
Arpin was named ARCA Nation's Most Popular Driver.
He finished seventh in points in his rookie season.
Venturini Motorsports also confirmed Saturday the Fort Frances native will drive one of its cars in next February's ARCA race at Daytona Speedway.
Fort Frances Muskies boys hockey team lost in the consolation final of a tournament in Brandon 5-2 to Garden Valley.
Fort Frances Muskies girls hockey team lost 2-1 to Dryden in NORWOSSA action on Saturday.
Shae-Lynn Smith the lone goal scorer for the Muskies who face International Falls tomorrow night at the Ice for Kids Arena.
Friday the Muskies lost 3-2 to the Broncos in International Falls
Fort Frances Lakers were thumped 8-2 by the Dryden Ice Dogs Friday.
Jordan Carne and Cody Edwards scored for the Lakers.
The two teams meet again Wednesday in Dryden.
Rainy River Community College women's hockey team dropped a pair of games on the weekend to South Dakota State University, 9-4 Sunday and 4-2 Saturday.
Stevie-Lee Langford with a pair, Kylie Harala and Courtney Scholler scored in Sunday's game.
Scholler, Kyla Thorne had goals in Saturday's game.
Plenty of girls hockey action on the weekend
The Nor-Fab Flames Peewee Girls Rep Team beat the Dryden 4-0 Saturday.
Amber Jourdain and Amy Penner each scored twice.
Sunday, the Flames loss to the Peewee boys Greens Predators 4-3.
Penner again had two goals with Jourdain picking up the other.
Scoring for Greens were Ben Whitburn, Alex Gustafason, and Matt Cheetham with a pair.
The Dynamic Homes Hurricanes Atom Girls Rep Team split a pair of games with International Falls under-10 team, losing 3-0 Saturday before rebounding for a 7-5 win on Sunday.
Alyssa Alderson and Annaleise Hayes scored hat-tricks for the Hurricanes.
In Peewee Girls action, Super 8 edged Lakewood Tire Eagles 5-4.
Madisyn Degagne had four goals for Super 8.
Amber Jourdain added the other.
Jessica Coran and Amy Penner each had a pair for the Eagles.
Super 8 also blanked the Emo Boys 5-0, getting a pair of goals from Madisyn DeGagne and singles from Lindsey Dixon, Abbi Perreault and Claire Tibbs.
Eagles earned a 6-4 win over the International Falls under-12 team.
Coran had a hat-trick with Penner adding two and Rachel Jean adding the other.
Taylor Zawchanuk with 2, Margaret Hawler and Ashley Johnson scored for the Falls.
Fort Frances Timbits novice girls beat Emo Rockets 7-3.
Rolling Lake Lightning atom girls relied on a substitute netminder in a 4-0 win over the Emo Penguins.
Another player was forced to fill in without a goalie stick or pads after the Lightning's original netminder was forced to leave the game in the second with the flu.
Katelyn Gurniak and Marissa Loveday combined for the shutout.
Rainy River Community College basketball teams earn a split against Fergus Falls Friday.
The women's team won 69-61, but the men fell 98-77.
Fort Frances Muskies junior boys basketball team won its own tournament Saturday with a 46-36 win over Kenora's Beaver Brae Broncos in the final
International Falls Broncos girls basketball team host Lake of the Woods tonight - 7:30 at the Falls High School.
Friday, the Broncos lost to Deer River 74-44.
Muskies senior girls volleyball team were eliminated in the quarter-finals of a tournament in Dryden, losing to Portage La Prairie in 3-sets.
Muskies went through pool play with a 6 and 6 record, defeating Hammarskjold of Thunder Bay in a playoff match before losing to the Manitoba team.
Monday, December 7, 2009
New H1N1 Numbers
The number of cases of the swine flu in northwestern Ontario has dropped considerably over the past couple of weeks.
Figures released by the Ontario Ministry of Health show there were just two new cases of the H1N1 virus this past week.
That brings the number of cases in the region to 72 since the start of the fall flu season.
Figures released by the Ontario Ministry of Health show there were just two new cases of the H1N1 virus this past week.
That brings the number of cases in the region to 72 since the start of the fall flu season.
Calls for Meeting Renewed
Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP John Rafferty renewed calls in the House of Commons for a meeting between the finance minister and AbitibiBowater and the Communication Energy and Paperworkers Union to discuss their plans to secure workers pensions.
Rafferty says since his first request two weeks ago, there's been no such meeting.
"Mr. Speaker, on November 20, I rose in this House and asked the Ministry of Finance if he was willing to meet with representatives of AbitibiBowater and CEP to hear their requests for changes in federal regulations to secure the pensions of more than 25,000 Canadian forestry workers," said Rafferty. "The minister agreed to such a meeting, but only after they met with his provincial counterparts first. Those provincial meetings have now happened, so I ask today, has the minister finally met with these representatives as he said he would, and if not, is such a meeting scheduled? Will the minister be part of the solution?"
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance Ted Menzies said a meeting is still planned, but no date has yet been set.
Rafferty says since his first request two weeks ago, there's been no such meeting.
"Mr. Speaker, on November 20, I rose in this House and asked the Ministry of Finance if he was willing to meet with representatives of AbitibiBowater and CEP to hear their requests for changes in federal regulations to secure the pensions of more than 25,000 Canadian forestry workers," said Rafferty. "The minister agreed to such a meeting, but only after they met with his provincial counterparts first. Those provincial meetings have now happened, so I ask today, has the minister finally met with these representatives as he said he would, and if not, is such a meeting scheduled? Will the minister be part of the solution?"
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance Ted Menzies said a meeting is still planned, but no date has yet been set.
Victims of Violence Remembered
About forty people gathered at Knox United Church yesterday to mark the twentieth anniversary of the murderous rampage at a Montreal university.
Fourteen women were killed and 13 others wounded during a shooting rampage by Marc Lepine.
Peggy Loyie of Rainy River District Victim Services said it was also a day to remember the countless others of women who have become victims of violence.
"This is a day for all of us to reflect on the phenomenon of violence against women in our society," said Loyie. "It also an opportunity to consider the women and girls for whom violence is a daily reality and to remember those who have died as a result of gender-based violence."
The names and photos of 16 women from the Rainy River district murdered over the past twenty years were also shown to those attending who lit candles in remembrances.
Raquel Desrosiers , who's mother Karla was killed two years ago, was among those on hand.
"It's really sad we have to lose women like this," says Desrosiers. "They have the numbers of all these women who are missing and murdered, but the numbers are actually a lot higher than that. It's scary. It's up to us to speak for the women who don't have voices anymore."
Fourteen women were killed and 13 others wounded during a shooting rampage by Marc Lepine.
Peggy Loyie of Rainy River District Victim Services said it was also a day to remember the countless others of women who have become victims of violence.
"This is a day for all of us to reflect on the phenomenon of violence against women in our society," said Loyie. "It also an opportunity to consider the women and girls for whom violence is a daily reality and to remember those who have died as a result of gender-based violence."
The names and photos of 16 women from the Rainy River district murdered over the past twenty years were also shown to those attending who lit candles in remembrances.
Raquel Desrosiers , who's mother Karla was killed two years ago, was among those on hand.
"It's really sad we have to lose women like this," says Desrosiers. "They have the numbers of all these women who are missing and murdered, but the numbers are actually a lot higher than that. It's scary. It's up to us to speak for the women who don't have voices anymore."
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