Things are going to get spicy in town when the Fort Frances Times holds its eighth-annual Great Chili Cook-off this Friday (Sept. 26). The event will bring together 13 teams of chefs—many coming out for the first time—vying for the Best Chili and People’s Choice awards. “We just loved it […]
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After spending a week competing in the local Canadian Diabetes Association’s “Celebrity Challenge,” 10 local men and women got a good dose of what it’s like to live as a diabetic. And all the participants will get a chance to talk about their experiences—as well as find out who this […]
Dear sir: I am writing to ask Health and Long-Term Care minister Tony Clement what is delaying the re-opening of Rainycrest Home for the Aged in Fort Frances? My mother has Alzheimer’s disease and has been in the Continuing Care Unit at La Verendrye Hospital here since June. Unfortunately, this […]
The local Business Women’s Network has decided to postpone indefinitely a trade show planned next month which aimed to give women in business a chance to promote their talents, products, and services this fall. Bev Sisco, chairperson of the “Women’s Expo” committee, said last week that the numbers just weren’t […]
The regular monthly meeting for the Chapple Women’s Institute is slated for next Wednesday (Oct. 1). Roll call is ideas for Christmas. Meanwhile, the season’s closing tea at the district W.I. museum in Emo will be held Monday, Oct. 6 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Come for the hearty luncheon of […]
If you’re feeling blue because summer is over and fall is officially upon us, don’t worry, there’s a full agenda of activities taking place throughout the district starting this Saturday (Sept. 27). So put on a sweatshirt and participate! First off, a rummage sale will be held Saturday starting at […]
My backlog of column items is starting to resemble my sock drawer—both need to get organized, and fast. I’ll leave the socks for another day, but for your reading pleasure, this week will consist of a smorgasbord of leftovers I’ve had sitting around like the outdated meat loaf in my […]
Where did apples come from in the first place? Well, we don’t know just exactly, but the Middle East is suggested as the likely possibility. We do know the Romans had several varieties of apples under cultivation more than 2,500 years ago, and took them with them as part of […]
Phase III of the Ontario BSE Recovery Initiative will address market-ready cattle and veal calves that were held in inventory by Ontario producers on May 20 and have not been eligible for a payment under either of the preceding BSE compensation programs. Ontario cattle producers will be eligible for compensation […]
Betcha didn’t know search engines started out as a Canadian thing. The world’s first attempt at organizing information on the Internet came from McGill University in Montreal. In 1990, three students developed an archive of stored files called Archie. It was a manually-indexed archive; they added all the information to […]
On Sept. 14, 2003, with her family around her, Susan Gordon Wilson passed away peacefully at the Lake of the Woods District Hospital in Kenora, Ont. after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Susan was predeceased by her parents, Susan and Thomas Geary, and Harold’s parents, Pearl and Frederick […]
Linda Landry passed away in the General Hospital in Thunder Bay, Ont. on Sept. 21, 2003 after losing her battle to cancer. She was born in Colorado, U.S. on Aug. 27, 1963 to Roger and Madeline Lowen, then moved to Fort Frances, Ont. Linda met Blaine Landry in Fort Frances […]
