According to principal Lucinda Meyers, everything went without a hitch at Donald Young School’s clean-up day. Special thanks go out to Patty and Paige McNally, Frances, Casey, and Ian Grant, Elaine and Jimmy Mack, John Laplante, Stephen and Sarah Hillier, Natasha and Chad VanWallenghem, Harold McQuaker, Sherri and Kyle Hay, […]
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After just one week of “bag tags” on garbage, it looks like the town already may be seeing increased recycling among residents. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown said Monday morning that he’s compared the weights of total loads from “blue box” pickups last Monday and Tuesday with the pickup […]
Dear editor: Recently our town requested residents try composting their “garbage.” For a cost of $40 plus taxes, a resident can purchase a bin from the town. I would like the residents of Fort Frances to be aware of the dangers of composting in our area. My concern is that […]
Dear sir: Allyceea Ennis died on her school bus in Thunder Bay two days before Valentine’s Day. Since then, her family has been asking the question, “Why?” The more research we do, the more we discover that small children—left unsupervised and unrestrained—are not safe on school buses. Transport Canada and […]
Dear sir: What is the obligation of the federal government for the welfare of the public? This might come to you as a surprise, but according to the Privy Council Office, there is nothing in writing that the federal government has any obligation for the welfare of the public. Every […]
Premier Dalton McGuinty certainly spouted off every bit of rhetoric on democracy he could muster when he introduced legislation at Queen’s Park that, if passed, would set the first Thursday in October as the date provincial elections would be held every four years. “Elections do not belong to premiers to […]
The committee spearheading the OFSAA boys’ hockey tournament here in 2006 will nail down major issues before taking a break for the summer and then getting serious plans underway in the fall. The committee, which won the bid to have Fort Frances host the all-Ontarios back in April, tentatively will […]
When Alberton Central School first opened its doors in 1961, its first principal was an extraordinary women whose influence eventually would extend far beyond the little country school she administered. Shirley Wickstrom (then Stewart) proved to be not only an able administrator, she also broke new ground in the curriculum […]
The Nature Conservancies of Canada and Minnesota have teamed up with the Rainy Lake Conservancy to make sure nobody tries to pave our paradise and put up a parking lot. The first Nature Conservancy of Canada Northwestern Ontario field office is set to open on Scott Street here sometime in […]
Stewardship Ontario last week sent out cheques totalling $6.7 million to 190 municipalities in Ontario—the first payment under the provincial Waste Diversion Act to help them pay for “blue box” programs. Fort Frances wound up getting $6,408 as its share, Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown noted yesterday. “It’s good […]
Voyageur Panel, the oriented strandboard (OSB) manufacturing plant in Barwick, is now known as Ainsworth Barwick. As well, there has been a change of management at the mill. “We’ll have a new manager coming in shortly and we have an interim manager, whose name is Mark Cunningham,” Catherine Ainsworth, COO […]
After deciding last week to extend the entry deadline for this year’s Fun in the Sun queen pageant until last Friday, and then waiting another two days for more entry forms to come in this past Monday and Tuesday, organizers have decided to go ahead with it. Dawn Booth, a […]
