It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden passing of our mother, grandmother, sister, and friend, Lillian Maria Anderson (Allan). She passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007 at her home in Fort Frances, Ont., with family by her side, after a short but courageous battle with […]
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Following up a resolution the Police Services Board made last month, town council gave the go-ahead at its meeting Tuesday night to establish a border traffic advisory committee. The committee will look into two specific areas of concern—the immediate traffic issues related to 2008 road and biomass construction, as well […]
This past Hallowe’en marked the one-year anniversary of the Conservative government’s decision to levy a 31.5 percent tax on income trust. Many Canadian investors, including large numbers of retired seniors, actually invested their savings in the income trust market because Stephen Harper explicitly had promised over and over not to […]
An announcement came across the news service this week that the last wood hockey stick manufacturer in Quebec was ending the production. Sher-Wood, located in Sherbrooke, will begin outsourcing its wooden hockey sticks in January. After 58 years of making the famous Quebec stick, the factory will manufacture its last […]
It is a great privilege to write this first column in my new role as minister of Northern Development and Mines. I was honoured to be asked to take on this challenge by Premier McGuinty. In the last few days, I have reflected wistfully about how proud my father would […]
Josh Phillips, agri-food marketing intern with the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market, displayed an array of local food products during The Christmas Store’s 17th-annual open house here Saturday. The local Foods Shoppe, added as part of the store this year, allows patrons to find everything they need for Christmas entertaining. The […]
Darryl Allan told the story of the Allan family, as well as offered up some local Métis history to those gathered at the Métis Hall on Friday night.
Bill McEvoy, left, Jim Avis, and John Faith contributed to the merry-making on Friday night by providing a selection of Métis music during the dinner celebrating the Métis culture.
Bob Gillon, left, and Doug Anderson affixed plastic light-up reindeer on top of Betty’s on Scott Street yesterday afternoon to get ready for the Christmas shopping season.
The Official Blues Brothers Revival—the third “tour de Fort” concert of the 2007-08 season—got the crowd singing along at the Townshend Theatre last Thursday night with their homage to blues, gospel, and traditional soul music. “Elwood Blues,” left, and his brother, “Jake,” also got some audience members on stage to […]
Dear editor: I read the letters of Dianne Griffiths (Oct. 10/07) and Brenda Tullio (Oct. 24/07) and feel they are putting the closure of the Fort Frances Canadian Hearing Society on one agency. Since the closure resulted in two job losses, one being mine, it is time for me to […]
Dear editor: In response to the $20,000 byelection for a successor to fill the empty councillor’s position, I’m sure most taxpayers would agree that Ken Perry should be in line to fill it. Next up, Tannis Drysdale was a good councillor. She stood up for the people who put her […]
