This is the second part of an article by Hugh Martin, Organic Production Program Lead, OMAFRA explaining the process of becoming a certified organic producer: Understand the time period required to operate as organic before you can become certified (for crops, it is 36 months prior to the sale of […]
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Dave Ogilvie The Rainy River Federation of Agriculture is hosting a two-day workshop, entitled “Growing Your Opportunities–Quest for New Farm Value,” on Friday, Feb. 6 and Saturday, Feb. 7 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Emo Inn, with registration starting at 8:30 a.m. Ontario farm business owners, entrepreneurs, and advisors […]
I recently was asked, by someone my age contemplating reitrement, how long I had been in the newspaper business. I had to pause and think. My brother, my sister, and I all grew up in the business. My brother and I began delivering papers when he was 10 and I […]
Mitch Calvert It only took 240 calls and 381 minutes of talking over the two days leading into Saturday’s CJHL trade deadline, but head coach Wayne Strachan and the Fort Frances Jr. Sabres managed to add two pieces to the puzzle before the clock struck midnight. Talk about a cellphone […]
Robin McCormick Mike Badiuk, who plays lead for the Dylan Johnston rink out of the Fort William Curling Club, competed in the Northern Ontario playdowns in Elliot Lake over the weekend. The team won their first provincial title Sunday afternoon after dispatching defending champ Kory Carr. They now will represent […]
Peggy Revell Forget eating better or exercising more. How about helping to break a Guinness world record for a New Year’s resolution? On Jan. 23-24, people across Canada, including here in Fort Frances, are preparing to break the mark for the “Most Children Reading With an Adult, Multiple Locations” as […]
Peggy Revell Children attending St. John the Baptist Anglican Church here were called forward Sunday morning to help give a blessing as Fr. Wayne Stirling McIntosh was welcomed back and inducted as priest for the local ministry. Presiding over the ceremony was the Right Rev. David Ashdown, Bishop of Keewatin.
Press Release As a result of a decision in the Ontario Court of Justice last Thursday (Jan. 8), the Rainy River District School Board accepts responsibility for failing to immediately report a faulty drinking water monitor at Sturgeon Creek School to the Ministry of Environment in October, 2007. Although there […]
Duane Hicks Now only a week-and-a-half away, the menu continues to grow for the local Alzheimer Society’s fourth-annual “Chefs’ Charitable Dinner and Auction,” which is slated for Sunday, Jan. 25 at 5 p.m. in the Adventure Inn ballroom here. Margaret Schonewille, executive director of the Alzheimer Society of Kenora-Rainy River […]
Staff District firefighters were called to the Ainsworth mill in Barwick last Thursday after a fire broke out there. The call came in around 6:20 p.m., noted Marvis Darrah, who is chief of the Chapple volunteer fire department. Chapple firefighters attended the fire along with the Morley fire department, which […]
Press Release Dryden Municipal Telephone System (DMTS), operating Dryden Mobility, announced yesterday it will operate a Global System for Mobile (GSM) communications network in Northern Ontario, including Fort Frances. “DMTS is committed to providing a competitive choice for wireless customers throughout the north, and our management and staff look forward […]
Duane Hicks Dan DeGagné, left, and Daryl Eyolfson fed another haul of trees into the wood chipper at Daryl’s Customs Landscapes on Sixth Street West on Saturday afternoon during the Fort Frances Fire Brigade’s annual Christmas tree pick-up. Firefighters reportedly had fewer trees to gather this year as more people […]
