Duane Hicks Insp. Dave Lucas talked about the prescription drug epidemic Friday during the OAPSB meeting here.
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Recently, through conversations with friends, I have become aware that I am part of a small minority. I love vegetables! Years ago I used to say if I ever have to give up any food, I hope it isn’t vegetables. Now I take a blood thinner, so I can’t eat […]
Peggy Revell Kassidy Fryer and Avery Wilson-Hands matched up synonyms and antonyms with words at one of the stations set up for Family Litercy Day events held last night at St. Francis School.
Duane Hicks Fort Frances hosted the Ontario Association of Police Services Boards Zone 1 semi-annual meeting last Wednesday through Friday, drawing 40-50 delegates from across the region to discuss relevant issues. But the average resident just might be asking themselves what does a police services board do? “The prime function […]
Acting out the difficulties some folks have using the bathroom as they get older, a group of Legion ladies had the audience in stitches during the song, “Seven Old Ladies Stuck in the John.”
Last month, several Northern Ontario MPs and MPPs met in Thunder Bay to discuss the challenges facing our forestry sector. Tens of thousands of jobs already have been lost in the sector over the last five years, and we used this meeting to discuss the effect this has had upon […]
Duane Hicks The fourth-annual “Chefs’ Charitable Dinner and Auction” here Sunday evening ended up being very successful, raising an estimated $6,200 for further promotion of Alzheimer awareness and education. “This has been our highest amount raised to date,” Margaret Schonewille, executive director of the Alzheimer Society of Kenora-Rainy River District, […]
Duane Hicks While parents may see the Internet as a virtual reality, the threats posed by predators and cyber-bullies are dangerously real. And even though many parents are not as technology-savvy as their children, that’s no excuse for them not to play a role in their children’s online activities just […]
Duane Hicks With the abuse of prescription drugs like oxycontin on the rise, a community task force has been established to address the problems arising from the increasing amount of opiate addiction in Rainy River District and First Nations’ communities. OPP Insp. Dave Lucas, who last week was appointed as […]
Ask four economic “experts” what they thought of yesterday’s federal budget tabled by Finance minister Jim Flaherty and you’ll likely get four different responses. Depending on your point of view, the budget either was a great compromise designed to rescue Canada from the clutches of recession, a stunning capitulation by […]
Peggy Revell Eighteen children, and 32 people altogether, were at the Fort Frances Public Library on Friday afternoon to try to help break the Guinness World Record for “Most Children Being Read to by An Adult, Multiple Locations.” The nationwide attempt was part of the build-up to Family Literacy Day […]
Listening this past week to various national news correspondents reporting from Ottawa, I wondered if our politicians really liked to be known as “battlers” and “bruisers.” It almost sounded as if we were being prepped for round two of the “Battle of the Gladiators” once Parliament reconvened. It is a […]
