In our household, Christmas and trains go together much like a cup and saucer. Our fascination with trains began with a Fisher Price Huffy Puffy train we gave to a three-year-old boy years ago. Painted in primary colours, Huffy Puffy had an engine with a smiley face and eyes that […]
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Canadian coach Brent Sutter should keep playing his hunches. Patrice Bergeron scored two goals and added an assist while linemate Sidney Crosby had a goal and two assists last night to lead Canada to a 6-0 victory over Finland in a tune-up for the world junior championship. Sutter had a […]
It’s not to late to make a donation to the Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau’s annual community Christmas dinner coming up this Saturday. “The dinner planning is going along well,” Karen Haney, assistant co-ordinator of the Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau, noted yesterday. “But we still need donations. Whatever anyone wants to […]
The appointment of councillors to the town’s four executive committees has been postponed until Jan. 10 after Mayor Dan Onichuk withdrew his motion to make the appointments at Monday night’s regular meeting. Some councillors had disagreed with the appointments as they stood at the Dec. 13 meeting, and the mayor […]
Tradespeople will be licensed just like any other business here, if town council passes an amendment to its licensing bylaw at tonight’s regular meeting. “If tradesmen come into town from out of town, we would require them to get a licence,” said Clerk Glenn Treftlin, adding this would apply to […]
Christmas arrived early for the Borderland Thunder, who headed into a three-week break on a high note with a weekend sweep of the KC Bulldogs here. The SIJHL’s last-place team did make the Thunder work Friday night, sending the game to overtime before Riley Dudar, assisted by Andrew Dault and […]
District OPP charged two male drivers with drinking and driving Friday night. Shortly before 9 p.m., officers from the Fort Frances detachment arrested a male driver on the 800 block of Colonization Rd. West. The 27-year-old Fort Frances resident was charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol […]
The Adam Bolen rink, representing the Fort Frances Curling Club, failed to advance after finishing 3-4 at the eight-team Northwestern Ontario junior men’s playdowns in Thunder Bay over the weekend. And the Amy Nielson rink also fell short of the provincials, finishing the four-team Northwestern Ontario junior women’s playdowns in […]
Borderland was blanketed by about 5.8 cm (2.3 inches) of snow yesterday evening and overnight, but we’re still well below the seasonal average. Yesterday’s storm left the total snowfall for December at 30 cm (11.8 inches), which is about 8.4 cm (3.3 inches) above normal. But for the seasonal total […]
(Hayden William Edward Mainville-Tuesday) With happy memories living on, but with overwhelming sadness and sorrow, our precious Hayden is suddenly now our precious angel. The creator called Hayden home in the early morning of Dec. 15, 2004. He came to us on Sept. 9, 2004 at 12:49 p.m. at Lake […]
It is with great sadness the family announces the passing of Mary Kaye Kawulia on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2004 at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, Man. Funeral services will be held Monday, Dec. 20, 2004 at 2 p.m. at Green Funeral Home in Fort Frances, Ont. Rev. Marietta Marshall […]
James Peter Perreault Sr., 77, of Couchiching First Nation, Ont., passed away at his residence on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2004. James was born April 30, 1927 at Couchiching First Nation. He was raised there by his mother until the age of two, and then by his aunt until the age […]
