Happiness and spring go together like a cup and saucer. There is so much hope in the spring. The trees are leafing out. Yellow daffodils, red and pink tulips, and purple lilacs bloom in rapid succession. The days are longer and the nights shorter. There’s no reason in the world […]
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There is a new addictive game that seems to be sweeping North America. A game that causes an individual to lose track of time. A game that causes the player to find his or her own separate world. It’s called Sudoku, which means “the digits must remain single.” Also known […]
Welcome to our newest ghost town! In offices everywhere in our suddenly sunny city, the key people no longer are available unless it looks like rain. With summer apparently already here for the past two weeks, everyone is gone from their dull places of work—either up the lake or cruising […]
Sometimes everything in my life comes together—and sometimes I have to coax it in like a scared dog. This past weekend, however, was not one of those times when I had to do much cajoling of the universe. My mother was right. There’s nothing like next-day visitors to kick-start a […]
The Rainy River District School Board was to recognize the efforts of staff at two of its schools to improve boys’ success in literacy at its regular monthly meeting Tuesday night. The new joint initiative between Robert Moore and Donald Young schools will be a three-year project focused around a […]
While the situation is temporarily cooling off a little thanks to some recent rain, the Ministry of Natural Resources fire season has been busy since officially starting April 1. Monday saw three new fires (two in Nipigon District and one in Thunder Bay District), making for five active ones in […]
Members of the Killer Whales soccer team practised before their first game of the season yesterday as the Fort Frances Youth Soccer League kicked off despite the wet and chilly weather. —Alex Cruickshank photo
Chris Lowe, left, chatted with Connie Cuthbertson at the Northwood’s Gallery and Gifts/Gourmet Outfitters booth Saturday morning at the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s annual home and leisure show. Cuthbertson’s exhibit was named the best decorated, followed by the Fort Frances Aquanauts (second), and Winnipeg-based Creative Candlelight (third). —Duane Hicks […]
George Chuvalo, the former Canadian heavyweight boxing champion, will be at Couchiching on Wednesday to give a free public presentation about drug abuse. Chuvalo speaks from personal experience, having lost three sons and his wife as a result of substance abuse. The heavyweight champ from 1958-79, Chuvalo now travels extensively, […]
Sporting more than 60 exhibitors, demonstrations, and chances to win prizes, the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce drew a large crowd to its annual home and leisure show on Friday and Saturday at the Memorial Sports Centre. “I feel it was pretty successful,” Chamber president Gary Rogozinski said Monday morning. […]
Something new to this year’s “Relay for Life,” organizers are looking for area youth to sing at the fundraiser’s opening ceremonies on June 16 here. Choral directors Diane Maxey and Louise Kahler are encouraging boys and girls who can sing to come to the first practice on Saturday, May 6 […]
With extensive renovations slated to start this summer, Fort Frances Museum staff are working hard to move everything out of the building by June 1. “We’re clearing the entire place out,” museum superintendent Pam Hawley noted Thursday, adding all of the artifacts, displays, and more are being packed up and […]
