Dear sir: Last week when returning home from the Falls, I stopped suddenly and really looked at the mill wall promoting Northwestern Ontario and was quite impressed until I came to the one representing Fort Frances. Now, we all know our great walkway and appreciate it very much, but looking […]
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The Thunder will not be a part of the SIJHL next season. That is Thunder GM Brent Tookenay’s sentiment after being asked if the team will remain with the Superior International Junior Hockey League if it cannot join the Manitoba Junior Hockey League. “Let’s put it this way—we won’t be […]
Move over, cupcake, I’m in Boot Camp, where life is lean and green, lemon juice is a staple, and beer has taken back seat to water. Welcome to my world for the next 12 weeks. I’m knee-deep in Oprah’s Boot Camp and there’s no turning back until I can see […]
There has been a long, low wing added to the west end of old Robert Moore School here, and those blue, steel swings today are not part of my memory there. We would wonder whether anyone actually could go higher than the taller swings further back in the schoolyard, where […]
I was reminded this past weekend of the extra values that sports and extracurricular activities play in the lives of our children. We look at recreation sports as being lifelong activities that we can enjoy, and hope that by exposing our children to them that they, too, will enjoy those […]
NHL: Lifestyles of the rich and stupid Keep the kids at home because if I hear one more thing about the NHL lockout, I swear that I’m going to go O.J. Simpson on someone. The National Hockey League is dead, so deal with it. I know I have. You’re reading […]
Loretta Anderson, 89, of Rainy River, Ont., passed away Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2005 at the Rainy River Health Centre in Rainy River. Funeral mass will be held Friday, Feb. 11, 2005 at 11 a.m. at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Rainy River, with Fr. Dan Debano officiating. A […]
Joyce Edna Burke (nee Taylor) passed away peacefully in hospital in British Columbia on Jan. 22, 2005 after a brief illness. She was born May 9, 1925 to Frank and Lily Taylor of Fort Frances, Ont. Survived by her brothers, Ed (Carolyn), Ray (Cathy), and John (Carole); nephews, Frank, David, […]
It is with deepest sorrow that the family announces the passing of Richard Boudreau, husband, father, grandfather, and friend of many. Richard passed peacefully in his sleep after a brief battle with cancer at the age of 68. He is survived by his wife of 43 years, Joan; children, Bradley […]
The family of Stuart A. Nicol (R.C.N.V.R.), formerly of Fort Frances, Ont., wish to announce that Stu passed away Thursday, Jan. 6, 2005 at Toronto, Ont. in his 83rd year. Stu is survived by his wife, Marjorie, of 54 years; sons, David and his wife, Margaret Chaput, of Ottawa, Ont., […]
Timothy (Tim) Perreault passed away unexpectedly on Monday, Jan. 31, 2005 at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Man. Tim was born to Greg and Pauline Perreault on Dec. 31, 1973 in Fort Frances, Ont. Tim will be sadly missed, but fondly remembered, by his wife and best friend, Kim Perreault; […]
The Business Improvement Association is looking for local people’s humorous stories about their significant others for their “My Funny Valentine” contest. But the deadline to enter is tomorrow (Feb. 9), so you’d better hurry. “We really need entries,” BIA co-ordinator Patti Anderson said this morning. “There’s gotta be some funny […]
