Zone #7 District Commander Bonnie Faulds of Kenora will be making her official visit to Fort Frances next Wednesday (Oct. 13). Faulds was elected and installed as district commander at the Zone #7 annual district meeting held in Rainy River in 2003. Prior to becoming district commander, she had served […]
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The Riverside Foundation for Health Care hosted the Thunder Bay Legends (“A Tribute Artist Extravaganza”) at the Townshend Theatre here Saturday night—and discovered it was as much a blockbuster as the first time the troupe came through here in April. “It was sold out. We sold tickets right until it […]
Doris Pelletier, a member of the Arthritis Society’s “Joints In Motion” team, is now heading up a “School-Wide Walk” fundraiser tomorrow in memory of her “arthritis hero,” Darrell Webb, who passed away earlier this year. After postponing it last Friday due to bad weather, the walk will start tomorrow at […]
Sons of Norway Vinland Lodge 1-193 will hold a business meeting at Nylan Huset on Rainy Lake tomorrow (Oct. 7) at 7 p.m. All community members from Koochiching County and Fort Frances with an interest in Nordic culture, including Sami, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, or Norway, are invited to attend. […]
Three people from the Ministry of Natural Resources’ Dryden District, known as the “I-Team,” have been trained to immobilize animals that pose a threat to public safety or themselves. As part of the training, the staff practised their marksmanship skills at the Dryden Rifle and Pistol Club’s range last Wednesday […]
The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce has extended the deadline for nominations for its annual business awards, which will be presented at a banquet later this month. The original deadline was last Friday (Oct. 1), but Chamber manager Dawn Booth said that’s now been extended to this Friday (Oct. 8). […]
The final berths for the 2005 Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship will be selected by lottery tonight at La Place Rendez-Vous starting at 6:30. Doug Cain, the outgoing director of angler services for the FFCBC, said this morning that 46 names will be drawn from 142 hopefuls to complete the […]
The president of the Ontario Public School Board Association paid a visit to Fort Frances on Tuesday on a short tour of Northwestern Ontario. Rick Johnson, who was named president back in June, said he hoped to make relations between the association and school boards more personal. “We’re trying to […]
Dear sir: In my Letter to the Editor last week, I left out a team that had won the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship twice, tying them with the Lindsays and the Lindners. That team, of course, was Jim Moynagh and Joe Thrun. To have three teams account for 60 […]
Dear editor: I am a retired American teacher. Since retirement, I have collected picture postcards of Canadian and American cities, particularly those cards which depict somewhat full views of the city. I am seeking cards of Fort Frances, and am hoping that you will print my letter and that some […]
Dear editor: The Friends of the Fort Frances Public Library held its second-annual “tag day” last Friday (Oct. 1) and it was a great success. This year, our project is raising funds to purchase new shelving for the adult section of the library, which will be a better height for […]
Dear sir: The executive of CUPE 65 (Rainycrest) insists that the board of directors and Rainycrest management stop using the media to spin public opinion against the hourly employees of Rainycrest. On Friday, Oct. 1, Mayor Dan Onichuk publicly stated on B•93’s “Talkback” show that the employees of Rainycrest should […]
