With raffle tickets expected to be ready for sale at Safeway here by Saturday, fundraising for the Kiwanis Club’s proposed skate park project will get a double boost with a “top up” day featuring familiar faces bagging customers’ groceries. Kiwanis president Mark Jones said finding volunteers to bag groceries has […]
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A tumultuous 16-month Safeway strike that saw the company threaten to close its three local stores permanently has come to an abrupt and startling end after workers voted to accept a new deal from the grocery chain. “We are very pleased we could reach a settlement,” Canada Safeway president Chuck […]
After a successful first run last spring, the “Mother Goose” early literacy program will resume at the Fort Frances Public Library starting this Thursday at 10 a.m. A 10-week session for children up to two years of age and their parents, there’s still some openings for those who want to […]
The Northwest Catholic District School Board will hold its monthly meeting today at 7 p.m. via videoconference and one of the issues on the agenda is access to ORION. The Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network is a provincial initiative to establish a high-speed research network across the province linking […]
The Muskie hockey teams will go Eagle hunting tonight as the NorWOSSA regular season wraps up. The male Muskies (15-4) visit Dryden to face the Eagles in a preview of the teams’ best-of-three semi-final playoff match-up, set to begin here Thursday. The black-and-gold, who already have clinched second place in […]
Donald Allan “Don” Pentney, 62, of Crozier, Ont., passed away Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2003 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. He was born May 7, 1941 in Rainy River, Ont. Don had worked in both Kakabeka Falls and the Geraldton area with the Ontario Provincial Police for […]
It is with great sadness that we announce the loss of our mother, Isabel, in her 94th year on Feb. 14, 2003. She was born June 9, 1909 in Virden, Man. to the late Elmer and Mary Alice English. Mother’s grandparents were 1881 pioneers at Virden, where she and her […]
The annual “Community Chest” benefit dinner at La Place Rendez-Vous last night looks like it was another rousing success, bringing in about $14,100. “I think things went extremely well,” said Georges Blanc, who helped organize the dinner as both co-owner of the Rendez-Vous and a member of the local Knights […]
After losing a rope-a-dope affair to start the weekend, the Borderland Thunder spent the next two days treating their opponents like punching bags. A two-to-one advantage in shots on goal went for naught Friday night as the Thunder dropped a 4-1 decision to the host Fort William First Nation North […]
The main man in black and white had Shane Bliss seeing red. Referee Len Herken was not the Muskie boys’ hockey coach’s favourite Valentine after Fort High (17-4) officially fell out of the race for first place in NorWOSSA with a weekend split against the host Red Lake Rams (10-10). […]
The Health Board Appeal and Review Board will decide by late March or early April if the orders and fines being issued by the Northwestern Health Unit to area businesses for failing to comply with a smoking ban must be obeyed. The health unit began issuing cease-and-desist orders in January, […]
