Dear Mike, On May 7-8, Kitchen Creek Golf Club participated in the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s Home and Leisure Show by providing staffing and some support at the “Hole-in-One Drive Away Putting Competition.” Throughout, the results of many hours of dedicated effort from Dawn Booth, the Chamber of Commerce […]
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Dear editor: There are some wonderful people in our world. Monday last, I took my friend and her sister, who is visiting from Saskatoon, to the Rendez-Vous for lunch. We went for my friend’s sister’s 78th birthday. While we were there, she told the waitress it was the first time […]
With the provincial government expected to release its first budget May 18, the local Fort Frances Children’s Complex Advisory Committee is mobilizing to ensure child care isn’t forgotten in the distribution of funds. The committee held a public meeting here Saturday, and invited NDP leader and local MPP Howard Hampton […]
The Manitoba Junior Hockey League has expressed interest in having teams from Fort Frances, Dryden, and Kenora join it for the 2005-06 season. “I know our league has had some negotiations, well . . . interested talks,” said Trent Ward, an MJHL governor. “We haven’t seen a formal application, there’s […]
The 21st-annual Ducks Unlimited banquet hosted by the Fort Frances committee Friday night was a huge social success, even though the money raised was down slightly from last year. Nearly 200 people—some dressed in their finest attire—packed the banquet room upstairs at La Place Rendez-Vous to open their wallets and […]
After sitting vacant after it was determined in 1999 that diesel fuel from the CN rail yard had leached underneath nearby residential properties along Central Avenue, the land there still may see some use in the near future, municipal planner Faye Flatt said yesterday. “Right now, I’m in the pre-consultation […]
The Fort Frances campus of Confederation College and Rainy River Community College over in International Falls have banded together to offer a new International Business program this fall through a wireless Internet television (ITV) link. “We’re pretty excited about it,” said Dick Trivers, interim manager of the local Confederation College […]
Town council finally passed the 2004 budget Monday night by a 5-1 vote. Mayor Dan Onichuk and Couns. Tannis Drysdale, Todd Hamilton, Struchan Gilson, and Rick Wiedenhoeft voted in favour of the budget, with Coun. Roy Avis opposing it. Coun. Neil Kabel, who had voted against the budget in principle […]
The Fort Frances Museum hosted a book launch last Wednesday evening for two new tomes on the history of the local fur trade. Local resident Merv Ahrens presented “Lake La Pluie, 1817-1818,” the journal of Master Donald McPherson, an employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Ahrens painstakingly assembled and typed […]
It seems crime does pay, as the “Bail or Jail” fundraiser here last Friday and Saturday raked in about $12,500 for the local Crime Stoppers program. “It actually exceeded our expectations,” Northwestern Ontario Crime Stoppers co-ordinator Det. Cst. Gary Potter said yesterday afternoon. “After not having it for quite a […]
Maybe it was the weather, maybe the right mix of exhibitors and contests, or maybe just perfect timing, but this year’s Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce home and leisure show last Friday and Saturday at the Memorial Sports Centre was a big success, said organizer Dawn Booth. “We figure there […]
