Cameron Penney With their bellies filled with pizza, pasta, and gelato, members of the Fort Frances High School Travel Club returned late Friday night from their nine-day trip to Italy. A total of 33 students, along with four teachers serving as chaperones, travelled overseas to visit the European country. The […]
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Cameron Penney Paul Morrison was shocked last week when he was visiting the park near Phair Avenue and Sixth Street East with his family and discovered a baggie filled with used needles in the bush. His Facebook post to alert people in the area about his discovery quickly went viral—igniting […]
Duane Hicks Plans are underway for Fort Frances to host the 69th-annual OFSAA boys’ hockey championships next March, and the town officially has been asked to be a sponsor. “It has been 11 years since OFSAA was last in Fort Frances and as many of us remember it was a […]
Cameron Penney Nicole LePine tried to look eye-to-eye with the taxidermied moose at the local tourist information centre on Friday. Visitors to the centre can borrow a “selfie” stick to snap a picture with the moose, as well as check out the two taxidermied owls on display there. The centre, […]
Cameron Penney Sgt. Greg Beazley, centre, the Emergency Response Team (ERT) leader here in Fort Frances, flanked by canine handlers Cst. Jeff Poperechny (left) and Cst. Chris Halverson, along with their partners, “Jax” and “Briggs,” demonstrated some of their equipment last Thursday at Canadian Tire in conjunction with Police Week. […]
Cameron Penney Steve Jourdain, along with his wife, Iris, above left, soaked up the warm weather Friday while enjoying a meal at the Rainy River First Nations’ 46th-annual fish fry at the pow-wow grounds. Hundreds of people lined up to fill their plates with fresh walleye and smoked sturgeon, along […]
Joey Payeur Piper Felix didn’t mind mixing it up with the boys as she showcased her skills during the first day of the United Native Friendship Centre’s youth lacrosse program at the ’52 Canadians Arena here last Tuesday.
Duane Hicks A recent survey showed two-thirds of “frequent spenders” in International Falls and Koochiching County, Mn. have a valid U.S. passport or other legal means to cross into Canada. Thanks to a Northern Community Investment Readiness (NCIR) grant, the Rainy River Development Corp. undertook a third-party market analysis of […]
With great sadness, the family of Robert “Rob” Edward DeGagné, 55, announces his sudden passing on Sunday, May 22, 2016. Rob was born March 18, 1961 in Fort Frances, Ont. to Orielle and Pearl (nee Plourde) DeGagné. Following high school, Rob worked at Bearing Supply in Fort Frances and Winnipeg, […]
Cameron Penney Hundreds of people turned out to the Rainy River First Nations’ pow-wow grounds on Friday to enjoy a plate filled with walleye and smoke sturgeon, along with French fries, salads, and wild rice, during the band’s 46th-annual fish fry. Volunteers began preparing the meal early in the morning […]
From the OPP On Saturday around 10:55 a.m., a Thunder Bay woman was located deceased within Sleeping Giant Provincial Park. The Thunder Bay OPP was advised of a report of a missing woman at the park on Thursday around 10:20 p.m. Dawn Fors, 55, of Thunder Bay had ventured onto […]
Staff A fire in Quetico Provincial Park was among the six new blazes reported yesterday across the region. Fort Frances Fire #6, located at Jesse Lake last was reported as “under control” at one hectare in size. Nine new fires were reported Sunday, including one in Kenora District that required […]
