For 75-year-old George Bartlett of Fort Frances, the Golden Jubilee medal he received here Saturday afternoon recognizes more than just his volunteerism and community spirit. It represented a memory that’s more than 60 years old. In 1939, Bartlett was a Cub Scout and his troop was part of the honour […]
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A few months ago, when the Fort Frances Nursery School was looking for a new home after the local public school board voted to proceed with the closure of Alexander MacKenzie, the option that seemed like a perfect fit was to incorporate it with the local library. Now, another perfect […]
Local residents will be seeing a four percent jump in their water and sewer rates shortly now that the rates have been calculated for the year 2003 based on maintaining each of the reserves at no less than $1 million. “During the 2003 budget process, we realized utility rates would […]
Dear sir: We wish to extend our deepest thanks and gratitude to each and every one of the persons involved in the rescue of the five snowmobilers who fell into Sand Bay on Friday, Feb. 28. Without your concern and intervention, the outcome of this fiasco would not have turned […]
Dear editor: I am a polio survivor. I had polio in 1949. In 1951, three of my school friends died from polio. Since March is Polio Month in Canada, I want to raise public awareness about polio and the post-polio sequelae (or syndrome) which many polio survivors are now experiencing. […]
While agreeing to support in principle a resolution brought forward by the “Re-Inventing Fort Frances” committee to express interest in a new Ontario Tourism Centre here, town council won’t be discussing the matter further until it gives the nod to the final draft of the “Re-Inventing” plan. The decision whether […]
Joyce Young has a thing for animals. As if seven dogs and an unknown number of cats aren’t enough for her, the feisty retired bookkeeper also has no less than 33 horses at her Trail’s End Riding Stable north of Devlin. At least that was the number as of March […]
While a new library here may not happen for years to come, the 20 or so people on hand for a meeting last Thursday night upstairs at the museum clearly recognized a larger building would be a welcome—and ultimately necessary—addition to the community. Those opinions started surfacing almost immediately after […]
My house is far from perfect. I often have two or three stuffed toys littering the living room rug. My back door is badly scratched. The kitchen floor is frequently covered with muddy paw prints. And when I go out, there is always white fur clinging to my black coat. […]
So many of our leading personalities and local events have been touched by the Fort Frances car licence bureau that it has assumed its own history. The present manager is hard-working Bev Fraczkiewicz, who declined to be interviewed, but the bureau’s story deserves attention! So many prominent people have been […]
It is not often I catch Bob Izumi gushing over something that is fishing related. But Bob was animated after spending several days filming with his buddy, American fishing star Roland Martin. Was it a new lure he’d discovered? A trophy-filled body of bass water? A tournament-winning technique? Nope, it […]
It would not be stretching the point to say the Borderland Thunder have been at the head of the class this season in the SIJHL. But it’s how much the team uses its head that will determine whether the post-season will render championship glory or another sad story. A terrific […]
