FORT FRANCES—The planning has come together for a day-long community summit slated here next month, where the focus will be on issues that will impact the district in the next five years. Now it’s time for those registrations to start coming in, community summit co-ordinator Jim Cumming said Tuesday. “We’ve […]
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FORT FRANCES—Community groups across the district will benefit from free use of local public school board facilities after it passed a motion Tuesday night to approve the Community Recreation and Use Agreement with the Ministry of Tourism and Recreation. In the past, the Rainy River District School Board has not […]
As a result of possible cuts to transportation funding, the Northwest Catholic District School Board may have to consider a reduction in busing services. The board first learned back in July that its funding from the Ministry of Education would be cut by 10.7 percent, or about $94,000. In November, […]
ALLAN-MARCHUK–Born to Lindsay Allan and Eric Marchuk, of Fort Frances, a girl, ShayLynn Destiny Faith, weighing 6 lbs. 11 oz. on November 29, 2004 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
Last Friday, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced in Thunder Bay the Northern Ontario Grow Bonds initiative—a pilot project for the north that was spearheaded by the Northwestern Ontario Associated Chambers of Commerce. It is part of the Northern Prosperity Plan designed to stimulate jobs, industry expansion, and the quality of life […]
Here’s what I learned when standing in the rafters above my bedroom. Vapour barrier is not about closing the door to the bathroom after your husband has been in there, and a 24-inch centre is not the tasty contents of the world’s largest butter tart. These invaluable life lessons seem […]
You remember the Summer Olympic Games of Athens, don’t you? I sure hope so, because it’s going to take the Greeks at least a millennium to pay for them. The figures are in and they give off an aura more of Hades than Aphrodite to put it simply (or metaphorically). […]
Like too many women, Verona Johnston was widowed. Her husband, who was an Iowa physician, died at the young age of 83. And that was 33 years ago. Verona Johnston died last week in Ohio, where she lived with her 81-year-old daughter and her husband for the last six years. […]
Myrtle Regina Wheatley, 90, of the Golden Age Manor, 182 Front St., Emo, Ont., passed away at her residence Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004. She was born April 27, 1914 in Saskatoon, Sask. to the late Albert and Lillian Gohn. Myrtle moved with her family to Stratton, Ont. in 1923. In […]
It is with great sorrow that the family of J. Steven Crawford announces his sudden passing at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2004. Steve was born March 24, 1954 in Hamilton, Ont. As a young man, he moved to Winnipeg, Man. and had […]
