Family and Children Services here is planning to move from its current address at 450 Scott St. to a renovated space in the westernmost portion of the old Fort Frances High School on First Street East in the new year. “Our board has accepted a recommendation from our building committee,” […]
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After working without a contract for almost two years, CUPE members at Rainycrest Home for the Aged here now have an agreement. Rainycrest’s board of management ratified the four-year agreement, which is retroactive to Dec. 31, 2001, at a meeting Wednesday. No other details, such as wage or benefit increases, […]
The laws of physics dictate two objects cannot occupy the same space. So consider Gillons’ and the Wildcats temporary law-breakers. Gillons’, the 10-time defending league champs, and the upstart Wildcats both are perched atop the weekly Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League standings with 18 points apiece. The Die Hards are […]
They couldn’t play for real, but the local K of C Knights PeeWee ‘AA’ team caused some real trouble across the river. Because of the rule limiting the number of tournaments they can take part in during a season, the Knights decided to play against teams participating in a tournament […]
An eight-game schedule doesn’t leave a team much time to get their engines warm if they want to take a run at top spot. But, then, wasting time has never been big on Paul Noonan’s priority list. Noonan and co-coach Mike Busch have the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team off […]
If you didn’t put out your recyclables this week, you’ll now have to wait until the week of Jan. 5-9 to do so as there will be no “blue box” pick-up between Dec. 22 and Jan. 4. This is part of the holiday schedule for curbside pickup as the town […]
It was a play that had never been successfully executed. So, of course, it was exactly the call coach Mike Busch wanted to make. Kevin Gemmell, who had 22 points in the game, came off a double screen to swish a threepointer at the final buzzer of regulation time, then […]
Now just a week away, the Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau’s annual community Christmas dinner is shaping up well, organizers said. But some more donations are needed if they are to provide for the more than 200 people they’re expecting Dec. 25 at Knox United Church. “We’re still short on hams. […]
Phillip Delano Peterson, 70, of International Falls, Mn., passed away Thursday, Dec. 18, 2003 at his home after a short battle with cancer. He was born March 3, 1933 in Big Falls, Mn. He served in the U.S. Army from 1953-55. Phillip later was a maintenance planner at Boise Cascade […]
Circumstances forced Shirley Jensson out of her comfort zone—and probably not a single person noticed. Personal commitments left the Fort Frances bowler with no choice but to compete in the Saturday morning shift at the zone P.O.A. (pins over average) tournament in Atikokan. But in the end, Jensson not only […]
Watten Township will not share 9-1-1 service with Fort Frances anymore after having failed to come up with the money it owes the town. Community Services manager George Bell said yesterday the town already is looking into cutting off Watten residents from the service, in which all 9-1-1 calls go […]
Ella Carruthers is the recipient of the Township of Emo’s “Senior of the Year Award” for 2003, sponsored by the provincial Ministry of Citizenship. Carruthers has been a very active senior citizen in the community, and has generously given her time and energy to community service and volunteerism. She is […]
