Now that the OFSAA boys’ hockey championship is almost ready to go, with last-minute loose ends being tied up, the schedule finished, and seeding determined, there’s only one question left that needs to be answered. How is the Muskie boys’ hockey team feeling about the upcoming event? Although most of […]
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Owing $4,500 in back taxes and possibly unable to pay it off in their current financial situation, the owners of the Bonnie Blue here may have to close their doors. Barb Stainke said last week that she and her husband, Chris, may end up seeing their building at 272 Scott […]
The Town of Fort Frances will not reduce the age of seniors under 65 for the purposes of discounts, town council decided Monday night after approving a report from Community Services manager George Bell. Bell noted resident Anna McNay had written the town expressing concern over the town’s policy of […]
There’s still a lot of work to do but town council has continued moving ahead with recommendations in the Downtown Core Committee report it approved back in November. Mayor Dan Onichuk said Monday that it was decided at a special committee of the whole meeting last week to put in […]
The Rainy River Cattlemen’s Association abattoir steering committee has acquired pledges from 75 producers who have agreed to be members of the district abattoir project, so plans are starting to move forward. A membership meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 4 from 7:30-10 p.m. at the Chapple rec centre in […]
After calling off a health forum that was supposed to take place here March 4, Fort Frances Mayor Dan Onichuk announced the Rainy River District Municipal Association now will meet April 1 to come up with a consensus on the future direction of Rainycrest Home for the Aged. “We’re going […]
JOHNSON-POTSON–Born to Terence Potson and Evelyn Johnson, of Mine Centre, Ont., a girl, Ariana Faith, weighing 7 lbs. 11 oz. on March 9, 2006 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
WOOD–Born to Anthony Wood and Edna Barrios, of Rainy River, Ont., a girl Tyanna Tagyubon, weighing 8 lbs. 14 oz. on March 10, 2006 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
MORRISON–Born to Danielle Morrison and the late Dana Archie, of Fort Frances, Ont., a girl, Mardina Chrystine Marie, weighing 8 lbs. 7 oz. on March 10, 2006 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
ENGE–Born to Travis and Tena, nee Richert, of Fort Frances, Ont., a girl, Timea Joelle, weighing 7 lbs. 13 oz. on March 10, 2006 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
Well, as I often like to say, it’s game over everybody. As many of you who read my column every week may know, I have a passion for two sports—tennis and golf (I somehow manage to drop golf bombs at some point in most of my columns). I wasn’t always […]
I was punched in the heart Friday night with the grievous and cold reminder that dogs don’t live forever, and that sometimes—no matter how much we love them—we don’t have the power to save their lives. But alongside the constant thump of my heart ache, I take great solace in […]
