The Fort Frances Fire Department responded to a call at the Memorial Sports Centre at 4:50 a.m. on Friday after a boiler there malfunctioned and overheated. “At this time, a Union Gas representative and electrical and plumbing contractors are looking at what actually caused the problem,” Fire Chief Steve Richardson […]
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The progress of the newest swim club in Fort Frances is running well ahead of schedule. The Cyclones will send a season-high 11 swimmers, including seven making their debuts, to this weekend’s sprint meet in Atikokan hosted by the Nakokita Swim Club. The expanding total has Cyclones head coach Debbie […]
On the heels of raising $55,123.53 for the “Community Chest” this past year, local Canada Safeway employees are poised to adopt another worthy cause. “We’re in the process of voting right now,” assistant manager Cory Delbridge said. “The employees have until the end of the weekend to cast their votes. […]
A red kettle you can see from a block away, and the familiar jingling of bells, once again will be part of the holiday season here as the local Salvation Army launches its Christmas kettle campaign next Wednesday. “We’ll be doing it for 10 days, like we’ve done in the […]
The Rainy River District School Board has to leave old Fort Frances High School standing until it can raise enough money to demolish it. The issue was prompted by a Nov. 19 letter from the Town of Fort Frances inquiring about the board’s plans for the First Street East property […]
The release of the Romanow report on the future of Canada’s health care was positively received by the Canadian population. The infusion of fiscal resources into our health care is always positive. But the report was not specific in identifying how much of the $15 billion is going to be […]
One of the many impacts of the impending closure of three elementary schools here is the future of Fort Frances Nursery School, which currently is housed in Alexander MacKenzie, one of the schools on the chopping block. Needless to say, the nursery school’s board has been studying options to keep […]
The Town of Fort Frances recognized its retirees and employees who have reached 25 years of service, as well as “Citizens of the Year” Jean and Lin Boileau, at its annual appreciation dinner Friday night at La Place Rendez-Vous. “I had fun,” Jean Boileau said when talking about the dinner […]
A former Fort Frances Times carrier made another kind of delivery Nov. 18 in Tillsonburg, Ont. Sean Parker helped his wife deliver their first child, Maia Kaarli T.H. Parker, on the floor of a Tim Horton’s washroom (yes, the T.H. stands for Tim Horton’s). The couple, on their way to […]
Woodyatt resident Don Smith may file an appeal of his conviction and sentence last week with the Ontario Court of Appeals. “We’re going to seriously consider an appeal, particularly as far as the definition of obscenity that was used here,” Smith’s lawyer, Darren Sawchuk, said after Madame Justice H. Pierce […]
The Rainy River District School Board held its regular monthly meeting here last night, with the re-election of Gord McBride as chair and Dan Belluz as vice-chair topping the agenda. The board also heard from the “Envirothon” team from Fort Frances High School, which had represented the Lake of the […]
The 2003 Rainy River Festival of Performing Arts (running March 31-April 13) will mark its 70th anniversary. And to mark the milestone, association president John Jankiewicz dug out the original ledger from the first festival in the spring of 1933 at the group’s monthly meeting Monday night at the library. […]
