Starting this morning, students, teachers and all other staff will be required to read for the pure enjoyment of it as the Fort Frances High School implements a new program aimed at curbing literacy and promoting reading as a pass time. “Reading has become a lost art in the video […]
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Less than a year from now Rainy Lake and La Place Rendez-Vous will be inundated with women, at least that’s what Pam Hawley and Linda Lovisa are hoping. After years of brainstorming, planning and a lot of dreaming the two artisans’ idea of holding a women’s art retreat on the […]
As classes begin across the district today, students may find themselves looking up at a slightly changed administration at some schools after a principal/vice-principal shuffle took place over the summer. High on the list of changes is the addition of a third vice-principal at the Fort Frances High School. “We […]
This weekend the local Friends of Animals will hold their annual “Paws Around the Park” event and organizer Susan Cousineau said it’s not too late to participate. “Just pledge yourself a few dollars and come on out and walk,” she said. “People don’t have to walk a dog. Last year, […]
A special delegation from the Town of Fort Frances, along with a number of business and community representatives, will be travelling to Paris, Tenn. in October to explore business opportunities and other matters of mutual interest. Mayor Glenn Witherspoon said last Friday the town is planning to take a delegation […]
Day-old pastries are difficult enough for the human stomach to entertain, never mind one from 12 months ago. But it’s not so much indigestion as it is anticipation that the Fort Frances Muskies varsity football squad is feeling inside, as they prepare to chew on the toughest part of last […]
The Emo Figure Skating Club is once again selling the Birthday Calendars. Orders are being taken by Mrs. Karen Kuitunen, you can contact her at 482-2805. The deadline date is Sept. 26, 2003. Individuals, families, organizations, business sector and memoriams to be remembered. • • • Librarian Shirley Sheppard at EPL tells […]
There’s a quiet invasion going on in the Rainy River District and it could be coming right to your back yard. At least that’s what Bob and Lori Green of Fort Frances discovered. The Greens have a two-acre lot in the west end on Colonization Road and last week, their […]
Sight and Sound has its sights set on grabbing the brass ring. The season-long leaders in the Rainy River District Fastball League need only to defeat Rainy River in tonight’s 8 p.m. match-up at Vanjura Field to secure the championship. But if Rainy River manages to pull out the victory, […]
The sun and fun of Florida was only two strokes away. Kitchen Creek Golf Club head pro Steve Wood and his team of Steve Pruys, Shawn O’Donnell, Charlie Windego, and Jason Kuorikoski were mostly steady from tee to green, but came in tied for sixth in the gross division with […]
The Times’ Great Chili Cook-off is fast approaching and the list of chefs is nearly finalized, but organizer Susan Martin is looking for people to make cakes and other baked goods for the “cake roulette.” The cake roulette allows people to place loonie bets on various donated baked goods. Last […]
It was, perhaps, perfect irony. Less than four days after the massive blackout that left 50 million people in Canada and the U.S. without electricity, the Solar Energy Society of Canada held its annual conference at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. in the middle of rolling blackouts. Local educator William […]
