The town has advised the Fort Frances Curling Club that the most it can do is apply for up to 40 percent in property tax relief—just like other non-profit groups here. The club had requested late last month that the town rebate 100 percent of its taxes for this year. […]
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Melanie Mathieson of Fort Frances is in isolation for the next four-six weeks on the Acute Leukemic and Bone Marrow Transplant ward at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, counting on the people back home. She’s counting on area residents lining up to donate blood to the Canadian Blood Services, […]
When hurricanes Charley, Frances, and Ivan roared through the Sunshine State over the past month, they left a path of destruction and death in their wakes. But they also left something else—opportunity. While millions of Americans abandoned the vulnerable coastlines and sought refuge inland, thousands of others tried to ride […]
A wise man once said to never look too far ahead because you may miss the pretty girl that just passed you by. This tidbit of wisdom could apply to the Borderland Thunder as they get ready to start another SIJHL season this weekend while also looking ahead to playing […]
As a follow-up to the July 7 signing of the historic harvesting rights agreement between the Métis Nation of Ontario and the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Sunset Country Métis hosted an information session here Friday night to update area Métis. MNO president Tony Belcourt told the roughly 100 people […]
KREGER–Born to Ken and Heidi, nee Bolen, of Emo, Ont., a boy, Cole Robert John, weighing 8 lbs. 9 oz. on September 10, 2004 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont. YERXA–Bor to Brian and Gerri, nee Walton, of Couchiching First Nations, Ont., a girl, Emma Frances, weighing 8 […]
Thousands of loney miles up and down this continent were reflected in the lengthy conversation I had with Clayton Loverote from North Bay, Ont. at A&W, where he had parked his huge white truck the other day after delivering merchandise for Canadian Tire’s big new store here. Clayton talked about […]
We said good-byes to our neighbours at the lake on Saturday evening. Philip and Carole will be leaving tomorrow and heading home to Oregon for the winter, but only after a trip around Lake Superior. Neither has seen the beauty of the North Shore and were looking forward to camping […]
It is with great sadness that the sporting world announces the death of the National Hockey League. She died after a long battle with “cost certainty” cancer, which eventually took her life at 12:01 a.m. on our Lord’s Day of Sept. 16, 2004. She first was stricken with the disease […]
We’d all like to think we were beautiful babies and maybe we were. But it’s hard to verify the fact if you were born half or three-quarters of a century ago. Back then, there were no bulging baby books. No instamatic cameras. Little recordings of our cuteness and our spectacular […]
Gerben Helder, 79, of Rainycrest Home for the Aged, 550 Osborne St., Fort Frances, Ont., and formerly of Bergland, Ont., passed away at his residence Monday, Sept. 13, 2004. Gerben was born Feb. 19, 1925 in Drachten, Holland to the late Sjoerd and Sietke Helder. He immigrated to Canada in […]
The Alzheimer Society of Kenora/Rainy River is asking district residents to take a coffee break for a good cause this Thursday. “People always meet for coffee anyway. Why not do it on that day to raise money for a good cause?” executive director Margaret Schonewille remarked this morning. The annual […]
