Kenora’s Julia Beveridge had the opportunity of a lifetime last summer when she got the chance to head up to the Yukon on a contract as a fisheries biologist for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (Central and Arctic Division) based out of the Freshwater Institute at the University of […]
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It’s a scene that plays out every day. Your teen hops into a vehicle with their friends to head off to school or, say, return home from work. Or perhaps it’s your son or daughter who picks up their friends to go to a hockey game, band practice, fast food […]
Duane Hicks The local Community Control Group (CCG) sprang into action this morning as part of Emergency Management Ontario’s “Trillium Response 2008” after a simulated “ice storm” declared by Environment Canada earlier this week escalated into a critical situation. The CCG, including members of police, fire, and ambulance services, town […]
Jessica George It was Lillian Kellar’s worst nightmare, but it was her dream to see it documented properly for the sake of all she lost—and for all that everyone else lost. After the tragic fire that claimed 17 lives in Dance Township on Thanksgiving Day back in 1938, Kellar wanted […]
Mitch Calvert Getting pucks past Ryan Faragher of late has been about as difficult a task as convincing kids that broccoli is good for them. Faragher is stopping nearly everything lately, and has been a huge key to the Fort Frances Jr. Sabres’ success of late. He recorded his second […]
Peggy Revell Fort Frances will be one of two sites in Canada where a pilot project that links aboriginal high school students with mentorships in accounting firms will be launched. “The thrust of it is that, hopefully, more of aboriginal students will decide that they want to go into the […]
Duane Hicks With the goal still being to put the project out to tender in January, with construction to start in April, the building committee turned over its final report on the new Fort Frances Public Library and Technology Centre to the library board on Friday. Board chair Joyce Cunningham […]
Peggy Revell “Flimsy” and “absurd” are some of the words local resident David Kircher is using to describe the Rainy River District School Board’s answers following his presentation to the board earlier this month over the hundreds of thousands of dollars that went missing from Fort Frances High School over […]
Peggy Revell District residents once again can help make the holidays a brighter time for children in need as the “Adopt an Angel” campaign is underway for another year. “This is our sixth year running the ‘Adopt an Angel’ program,” noted Jacquee Loerzel of Family & Children’s Services in Fort […]
Paige Desmond Shift work is a necessary part of business. Health care, resource industries, policing, and other services require a 24-hour schedule. According to Statistics Canada, in 2005 roughly 28 percent, or 4.1 million of the 14.6 million Canadians employed, worked something other than a typical day shift of 9 […]
Peggy Revell There’s been a big turnout for the Northwestern Health Unit’s public ’flu shot clinics so far. Of the three walk-in clinics held by the health unit in Fort Frances, more than 300 people attended the one at Robert Moore School while close to 300 were at the one […]
Paige Desmond It’s the time of year when everyone feels a little bit more generous—and a little more concerned about others. And thanks to the Gideon Bible Society Auxiliary, women staying at the Atikokan Crisis Centre will have a little something extra come Christmas. Last week, Thea Kaemingh of Devlin […]
