Drug Awareness Week is coming up, and students at Fort High are gearing up for a week of fun and excitement. The local chapter of Ontario Students Against Impaired Driving have organized “Fear Factors,” an event based on the popular television show where people do various stunts in an effort […]
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Local residents will have a chance to brighten a child’s Christmas again this year with Family and Children’s Services “Adopt an Angel” program. The program was launched last year with great success, providing gifts to children in foster care across the district. FACS has put up a Christmas tree hung […]
Downtown shopping took on the flavour of the kitchen Friday morning with the opening of “Gourmet Outfitters,” the latest business venture by local entrepreneur Connie Cuthbertson of Northwoods Gallery and Gifts. Located at the northwest corner of Scott Street and Portage Avenue, Gourmet Outfitters features gourmet food products, cookware, glassware, […]
Who can you thank for the enrollment boom the Fort Frances Visserettes and Boys Gymnastics Club has seen since Mirel and Mirela Bica joined on as coaches three years ago? Their three-year-old daughter Julianne, that’s who. A little confused? Well here’s the story as to how the married couple of […]
The Shaw family have bought an additional 750,000 class-B non-voting shares in Shaw Communications Inc., the cable television provider said yesterday. The shares, worth about $16 million, were picked up last week and raises the Shaw family’s stake in the company through stock it either owns or controls to 20,759,556 […]
Joyce Bandola, 79, of Thunder Bay, Ont. passed away peacefully November 9, 2004 at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre. She will be dearly missed by her son Harry Zachozy of Fort Frances, daughter Marg Ams of Vernon, B.C., and niece Grace Clarke of Thunder Bay. Also left to […]
Bill Parfitt was born March 11, 1926, in Keewatin, Ontario and died October 14, 2004 at the Ottawa General Hospital. Thanks to God, he was able to have his son Dan, daughter-in-law Paula and grandson Ian at his side. He was predeceased by his wife Frances in 1972 and his […]
It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our dear father, grandfather and great-grandfather Steve Melnychuk on Monday, Nov. 8, 2004 at Rainycrest Home for the Aged. He leaves to cherish his memory his four children: Walter of New Hope, MN; Gerald (Kathleen) of Minnetonka, MN; Susanne […]
There is a potential tempest brewing over the provincial government’s ongoing review of the current provincial parks and conservation reserve legislation that is gradually reaching a boil in some quarters. According to representatives from the provincial environment ministry, it’s all much ado about nothing, while some members of the angling […]
It’s been almost four years since the unfortunate passing of Mark Hopkins, and still he lives on. In hockey form. The fourth-annual Mark (Hopper) Hopkins’ Memorial Hockey Tournament was held over this past weekend here, and what better way to remember someone than through something the person loved the most. […]
Joyce Gosselin, a well-known Special Olympian and fundraiser for the annual Terry Fox Run, was announced as the 2004 “Citizen of the Year” at last night’s council meeting. “It was a unanimous decision of the committee that Joyce Gosselin be nominated ‘Citizen of the Year,’” announced Mayor Dan Onichuk, who […]
The Fort Frances OPP is investigating a threatening incident that occurred Saturday in Fort Frances. At approximately 4:40 p.m., Fort Frances OPP were called to investigate a report of a threat to a local woman. A 20-year-old male had uttered threats to cause death and bodily harm whilst “chatting” with […]
