Robin McCormick was one of the actors who presented the skit “Live, Love, and Laugh” during the second-annual Seniors’ Lifestyle Expo on Saturday at the Fort Frances High School. The humerous skit touched on a lot of health-related topics for seniors. Meanwhile, a variety of booths were set up in […]
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Dressed as pirates, students from St. Michael’s School presented Fort Frances Public Library board chairperson Joyce Cunningham with a “treasure” this morning. The students in Paulette Romaniuk’s Grade 3 class and Tina Gurski’s Grade 2 class collected a total of $48.75 in coins to donate to the “Building for the […]
Local competitive swimmers will be back in action tomorrow afternoon with their first meet in Dryden. “I’m excited,” said Dawnn Taylor, a coach with the Fort Frances Aquanauts. “It’s exciting to see what everybody’s going to put out there, what kind of bar they’re going to set out for themselves […]
The Muskie football team’s season came to an end yesterday afternoon with a 37-0 loss to the Kelvin Clippers in the WHSFL quarter-finals. Because the Muskies (0-7) finished last in the Kas Vidruk Division during the regular season, they had to face the first-place Clippers (6-1) in the opening round […]
FORT FRANCES—Local motorists can breathe a sigh of relief as all of the roadwork related to the Central Avenue water and sewer rehabilitation project should be completed by the end of the day Friday. Central Avenue, from First Street East to the international bridge, has been re-opened for traffic. Crews […]
BARWICK—A majority of members of the Rainy River District Regional Abattoir Inc. who attended a meeting in Barwick on Thursday night agreed to move ahead with the plans proposed by its board of directors. After prospective operator Sunrise Meats and Sausage was unable to proceed with the project, the board […]
With the deadline for applications coming up next Wednesday (Oct. 31), the town’s “Citizen of the Year” selection committee is asking people to hand in their nominations for the award, which is being given out for the 20th time this year. Just three applications had been turned in at the […]
VANCOUVER—Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. says it will temporarily shut down operations at four of its oriented strandboard mills before the end of the year, and two of those mills also will operate on a reduced production schedule indefinitely. Vancouver-based Ainsworth cited operating losses, log supply shortages, and a decline in […]
FORT FRANCES—Fifteen people from seven different countries officially became Canadian citizens during a ceremony at the Fort Frances Courthouse on Wednesday afternoon. These new citizens originally hailed from El Salvador, England, Germany, Kenya, Philippines, Scotland, and United States, but now reside in communities west of Thunder Bay. Citizenship Judge Arthur […]
FORT FRANCES—Participating in a Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission pilot project, the Bonnie Blue on Scott Street is the only business with a high-speed lotto terminal in Northwestern Ontario. But Bonnie Blue owner Barb Stainke admitted Thursday morning that getting to this point had has its “hiccups.” “A little while […]
Fort Frances Jr. Sabres’ defenceman MacKenzie York read a Hallowe’en story to students in Heather Bridgeman’s Grade 1/2 class at J.W. Walker School yesterday as his teammate and brother, Matthew, looked on. Several of the team’s players stopped by the school to share in storytime with the youngsters.
Harry Steiner, originally from the U.S., was presented with his Canadian citizenship certificate from Citizenship Judge Arthur Miki during a ceremony at the Fort Frances Courthouse yesterday afternoon.
