About a dozen people, including myself, are sitting out at the end of Pither’s Point behind the Hallett, waiting for night to fall. It’s dark, but not dark enough for our purposes. From where we stand, we can see the cars lined up on Front Street, and people crowded on […]
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The Township of Emo’s Canada Day celebrations held at Emo-LaVallee Community Centre had approximately 60 people in attendance. Children’s games were the centre of attraction, as the inflatable Bouncin’ Good Times, Tot-Tanic slide and Unicorn Bouncer kept them active, as did face painting and taking a whack at a cnady-filled […]
Fort Frances Little Theatre is having auditions tomorrow and Thursday for a comedy by Minneapolis playwright Steven Dietz called “More Fun than Bowling.” “This is a fun play,” said director Naomi Woods. “It’s very quirky and different.” Woods, who lives in Ranier, has worked with Fort Frances Little Theatre on […]
The local Human Resource Centre of Canada for Students’ first “Jobs … or Jail” event was a success yesterday, having recruited 26 odd jobs for students looking for work. Mayor Glenn Witherspoon agreed to sit in a large wooden “jail” in the courtyard in front of the Fort Frances Museum […]
For Ray Herbert, his second attempt at a firefighter challenge competition went better than the first though he did run into some set backs. Herbert attended a regional event in Thunder Bay last month, taking third place in the volunteer fire fighter category and 22nd overall. “I got beat by […]
A new set of champs were named in the Lake Despair “Castin’ For Cash” live release bass tournament this weekend, as Pat Cross and Keith Cates found fish yesterday— while most others struggled— and vaulted 14 spots for the win. For the duo, it was hard to believe they’d better […]
There’s no better way to finish off an undefeated streak than in a blaze of glory. Fort resident Jared Catholique- Bruyere, 16, capped off a remarkable season by winning the gold medal in the plus-81 category of the Juvenile division at the national judo championships in Toronto this past weekend. […]
The local Human Resource Centre of Canada for Students (HRCC-S) will be putting Mayor Glenn Witherspoon behind bars on Wednesday to promote student employment. “Jobs . . . or Jail” is a competition between the town and the HRCC-S to encourage community members and employers to hire students for their […]
Keeping a watchful eye over CN Rail property in the district for more than 18 months now, Cst. Pete LeDrew has been working hard to promote safety around train tracks and clamp down on trespassers. And while trespassers have been warned and charged during that time, incidents have not been […]
The reconstruction of Front Street will take longer than expected— 12 days to be exact—due to unavoidable circumstances, Bruce Spottiswood, acting manager of Operations and Facilities, said this morning. “The original date for completion was July 15,” he noted. “But because of July 1 [with the official opening of Phase […]
A 40-year-old Dryden woman remains in critical condition in a Thunder Bay hospital after the spare tire from a trailer being towed by another vehicle slammed through the windshield of the van in which she was a passenger yesterday on Highway 502. Joyce Butts was airlifted from the scene to […]
There’s going to be new face in the local outfitters business in the next few weeks—three new ones, to be exact. Lorne Caul, owner of Northland Trail Outfitters, has taken the idea of eco-friendly expeditions a step further by bringing in a trio of llamas to complement the 10 horses […]
