Those looking for the Valley Diabetes Education Centre and Riverside Community Counselling Services won’t find them where they were before the Christmas holidays as both have relocated to new digs. The pair of services now are located at 206 Victoria Ave.—the old St. Mary’s parish rectory— across from the ambulance […]
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Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown said the recent announcement by the province to start the Waste Diversion Ontario Blue Box Program in February is clearly a boon for the town’s recycling activity. But as to how much of a cash infusion it will amount to, that won’t be clear […]
To look at Jillian Gustafson, you’d think she is just a normal, happy eight-year-old girl. And in fact, she is, which raises the question—why would a normal, happy eight-year-old girl want to leave her cozy home in Fort Frances on a frosty New Year’s Day to jump through the ice […]
Christmas came early for Vanessa Hebert this year as a flood of donations for the annual community dinner poured in late last week. “We were starting to worry,” Hebert, the executive director of the Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau, admitted Monday. “But I don’t know why we ever did—the community always […]
With only two wins in 29 games, you would think Jared Catholique-Bruyere would rather be anywhere else than manning the blueline for the SIJHL’s worst team. So, why is this kid smiling? “It’s a real professional organization and I’m really having fun there,” Catholique-Bruyere, 16, said about his stay this […]
Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown is urging town residents to be patient, and keep putting their recyclables into the “blue box” and not the garbage can, until the new curbside pickup schedule comes into effect next week. “I’ve seen some ‘blue boxes’ out there already. We know there’s going […]
Dear sir: Looking back to when our Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship was not full to over-flowing with teams, and there wasn’t a waiting list to fish it, the committee called me and asked if I would go the Minneapolis sport and travel show to promote our bass tourney. With […]
News of a case of “mad cow” disease in a dairy cow in Washington state last Tuesday (Dec. 23) has heightened the threat to the beef industry in Canada already reeling from a similar discovery in Alberta back in May, Canadian agricultural officials say. Furthermore, preliminary investigations indicate the animal […]
Here’s hoping everyone survived the Christmas festivities and were able to spend time with friends and family, get all the gifts you wished for, and didn’t eat too much. I realize to accomplish all of the above mentioned does not happen often! I’d like to take this opportunity to wish […]
Whether it’s a significant levy increase or more funding from the province, the Northwestern Health Unit needs more money to do its job properly in 2004, said its CEO and medical officer of health. “We need stable funding for public health,” argued Dr. Pete Sarsfield. “It’s a problem across Canada, […]
Dear sir: I would like to extend my congratulations to Vic Nowak and the rest of the staff at Family and Children’s Services on their upcoming move to the old Fort Frances High School site. I enjoyed my time working for this wonderful organization, and am sure the staff and […]
The spirit of camaraderie was alive once again here this holiday season as well over 200 people came together at Knox United Church for the annual community Christmas dinner. “I think it went very well. We had a steady stream of people, not too many at once,” said Karen Haney, […]
