Travelling to the airport over in International Falls on Sunday, Marnie and I joined many other district parents in welcoming our children home for the Christmas holidays. Other parents are braving the highways to meet their children in the Winnipeg or Thunder Bay airports. Everyone is on the move to […]
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Looking forward to the New Year, I wish to highlight three important issues I intend to work on throughout the spring session of Parliament. In addition to following up on some issues that arose in the fall session, namely ensuring that the federal government helps to resolve the pension shortfall […]
As a tiny girl, I remember the unbearable excitement of December. When the baking began, the house smelled like cinnamon and cloves. And I wanted to eat everything right away–Christmas cookies, mincemeat pies, Parkerhouse rolls, and rich, creamy chocolate fudge. Even in the heart of the Depression, there were dolls, […]
Here in Northern Ontario, we don’t have many species of gulls. Actually, in all of Canada, there only are about 20 or so species altogether. Here in the north, we really have only two which nest here a lot, and a couple of others which visit us for a time. […]
By Dan Falloon, Staff writer There was no sign anything special was going to happen for the Fort Frances Lakers on Friday night. The team’s board of directors had just sounded the “everything’s okay” alarm for the second time in a month. The Lakers, meanwhile, were mired in a five-game […]
? Christmas came early for Sunset Country anglers who enjoy catching lake trout when the Ministry of Natural Resources last week announced changes have been made to lake trout regulations on Lake of the Woods starting in 2010. Following significant public review on options for managing the lake trout harvest […]
Charles Cyril Canfield, 87, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009 at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, Man. He was born March 29, 1922 in Riding Mountain, Man. to the late Alvin and Verna Canfield. Charles moved to Fort Frances, Ont. as a child and lived there for the rest […]
Arzella Y. Jerome, 93, of International Falls, Mn., passed away Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009 at the Falls Good Samaritan Center. Arzella was born April 22, 1916 to Wilfred and Rosanna Cousineau in Fort Frances, Ont. She was united in marriage to Warner Jerome on Feb. 9, 1948 in Fort Frances, […]
Robert “Bob” Baker, 79, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Monday, Dec. 14, 2009 at La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances after a lengthy illness. Bob was born in Maple Lake, Mn. on Sept. 15, 1930. He survived by his wife, Jean; children, Shane and Chris; and grandchildren, Kirsten and […]
Staff Christmas came early for the Fort Frances Lakers when town council last night agreed to grant a handful of concessions for the fledgling Junior ‘A’ hockey team this season. These considerations include: •resident youth ice rental rate; •pool/fitness centre student membership rates less 20 percent; •ice painting at no […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO—Ontario is axing the fall report card. The change, which will make the province the only one in Canada to grade all elementary students just twice a year, is the latest evidence of a growing backlash against marking children early, often, and on a rigid scale of […]
Heather Latter Youngsters from a local home day care were busy caroling along Sixth Street West on Friday morning. Complete with jingle bells and reindeer antlers, the children certainly spread some Christmas cheer to those homes they stopped at.
