Dear sir: I was an employee at the Red Dog Inn for two-and-a-half years. Although I have not been there as long as my fellow employees, some 20+ years, the impact of its sudden closure is still just as devastating. How do you go on with your life as usual […]
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Dear sir: Visiting Fort Frances from Phoenix, Ariz. during this centennial year, I was very impressed to read in the Centennial Edition of the Times (April, 2003) all of the articles on businesses and friends. But I was surprised when I read about the “ice business” not mentioning “Gosselin Bros.” […]
Keeping his fingers crossed that the weather is as sunny and warm as it has been in recent weeks, Bruce Caldwell is hoping the fourth-annual fly-in barbecue at the Fort Frances Airport will be as successful as ever. This year’s event is slated for Saturday, Sept. 6. “We usually have […]
The Fort Frances Horticultural Society’s centennial garden tour competition attracted 19 entries in five categories. The winners in each one received $100. The results are as follows: •Best Whole Yard—Dana Helder; •Best Pool or Pond—Edwina Frenette; •Best Front Yard—Rick and Joanne Bliss; •Best Vegetable Garden—Laurie Miller and Ray Scott; and […]
The annual Chapple Days celebration proved once again there’s more going on in Barwick than the OSB mill. Last weekend, township residents and visitors got together for two days of mid-summer revelry that went from high and dry to wet and wild as events moved from the Both Farm, north […]
The seesaw battle between Mini-Sprint drivers Ken Perry and Kyle Ridlon was among the highlights of weekly stock car racing action Saturday night at the Emo Speedway. Ridlon, who trailed Perry by just six points in the overall division standings coming into Saturday’s action, took the checkered flag over Perry […]
A local program that teaches students how to incorporate renewable energy into the home is the subject of a paper to be published at a solar energy conference at Queen’s University in Kingston later this month. William Perrault, a post-secondary education program co-ordinator at Seven Generations Education Institute here, will […]
Intersections at both Church Street and Victoria Avenue and Church Street and Mowat Avenue will see various changes in the near future, town council deiced at Monday night’s regular meeting here. After several accidents and numerous words of concern from the public, the traffic flow at Church and Victoria, as […]
Local golfers braved hot weather last Friday afternoon in an effort to raise money in a charity golf fundraiser for the “Community Chest.” And their efforts won’t go unnoticed. “We ended up raising close to $3,000 for the Community Chest,” said George Blanc. “It went really well. “We ended up […]
After four days travelling on the water, seven canoes filled with 15 people arrived at Rainy River last Thursday afternoon, wrapping up the final leg of the local United Native Friendship Centre’s annual “canoe-a-thon” fundraiser. And while the participants arrived safe and sound, with few problems along the way, R.J. […]
Those that want to get a look at various interpretations of the Devil’s Cascade, located on the north arm of Rainy Lake, have to go no further than the Fort Frances Museum after the second-annual Rainy Lake Impressions art show opened there last Thursday. “It’s a smaller show than last […]
This year’s Great Chili Cook-off, hosted by the Fort Frances Times, is set for Friday, Sept. 26 and organizer Susan Martin is looking for more chefs to sign up. “We have 12 chefs so far, so we have a few spots left,” she noted. Chefs work in teams of two. […]
