What do you get when you mix a home-run king in Barry Bonds, a six-time Olympic gold-medalist swimmer in Amy Van Dyken, a couple of world record holders in Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery, a boxing champion in Shane Mosley, and two all-star outfielders in Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield? […]
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A longtime writer for both the Fort Frances Times and Rainy River Record passed away this past weekend. For as long as I can remember, Milt Guba would wander through the doors of the newspaper each Monday with his stories of the district. When he worked for the CN, Milt […]
Roy Halladay picked the wrong team to have an off night against. Carl Crawford went 4-for-5, scored three runs, stole two bases, and had an RBI as the Tampa Bay Devil Rays handed Halladay and the Toronto Blue Jays a 10-2 loss last night. It was the 16th win in […]
David Bell needed to be patient. Standing on third base, Bell had to endure a conference by the umpires before learning his triple would count giving him the cycle as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Montreal Expos 14-6 last night. “The thing is it’s just rare,” Bell said while standing […]
Two-time defending champion Serena Williams was a serving sensation while Canada’s Daniel Nestor reached the quarter-finals in men’s doubles today at Wimbledon. Williams served 12 aces, including one clocked at a Wimbledon women’s record of 203 km/h, as she overwhelmed 16-year-old Tatiana Golovin 6-2, 6-1. Williams crushed the Russian-born French […]
Town councillors once again may get their health benefits package paid for in addition to their total salary after agreeing last night to amend the remuneration bylaw with the intention to vote on the revised version at their July 26 meeting. But whether councillors will be getting what they rightly […]
Liberal candidate Ken Boshcoff was elected as the first MP for the new Thunder Bay-Rainy River riding last night with a healthy margin of more than 3,000 votes. According to preliminary counts, Boshcoff took 14,003 votes of the 35,537 cast across the riding, or 39.4 percent of the popular vote. […]
After passing a bylaw early last year that saw councillors who chose to participate in the town’s benefits package have to pay for it out of their salaries, the new council may bring that remuneration policy back to the table for discussion at today’s committee of the whole meeting. The […]
The scribe has died. Milton Samuel Guba, 77, of Emo, Ont., passed away suddenly on Sunday, June 27, 2004 at his residence. Milton was born April 8, 1927 in Otthon, Sask. to the late Andrew and Elizabeth Guba. He was predeceased by infant brothers, Arnold and Andrew; great-granddaughter, Destiny Ann; […]
Philip Chernaske passed away peacefully Saturday, June 26, 2004 at Peace Arch Hospital in White Rock, B.C. surrounded by his family. He was born Jan. 7, 1920 in Fort Frances, Ont. He will be lovingly remembered by Dini and their three children, Diane (Rick), Yvonne (Robert), and Clay (Margaret); as […]
On Friday, June 25, 2004, Cecile Marie Asselin was escorted home to heaven to be reunited with her parents, Albert and Helen Chabot; her first husband, James Abbott, and her late husband, Dona Asselin; her two children, Billy and Betty Lou; and her siblings, Fernard, Teresa, Blanche, Marcel, Arthur, and […]
After four weeks of having the new “bag tag” system in place, the Town of Fort Frances is issuing a steadily decreasing number of non-compliance notices to residents. The first week (May 31-June 4) saw a total of 135 non-compliance notices issued while 102 were handed out the week of […]
