Leonard West, 97, of Rainycrest Home for the Aged, 550 Osborne St., Fort Frances, Ont., and formerly of Emo, Ont., passed away at his residence Monday, Oct. 28, 2002. He was born Oct. 3, 1905 in Kennedy, Sask. to the late Arthur and Annie West. In 1907, Leonard moved to […]
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It will be pumpkin-mania tomorrow as the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market on McIrvine Road closes for the season. Among the highlights will be the annual auction of pumpkins carved and decorated by local artists to raise money for the Riverside Foundation for Health Care. The event was started two years […]
It was a warm-up game for the locals, but they barely broke a sweat. The Muskie senior girls’ basketball squad tuned up for its annual home tournament this weekend by whipping the Rainy River Owls 43-13 in exhibition action at the “Fish Tank” (Fort High gym) yesterday afternoon. Stephanie Mattson […]
The local OPP’s “Policing for Results” phone survey so far has found residents to be helpful in giving input as to how well police are serving the community, Sgt. Steve Shouldice said Friday morning. “[Thursday] night was the second night conducting the survey. We’re up to 28 surveys completed,” he […]
Having turned in its charter back in January, the disbanded Fort Frances Rotary Club finally has divvied up its projects account, with three local groups benefiting from the group’s contributions. “We cleaned up our accounts [Wednesday] and we’re giving out our money to the Kiwanis, the library, and the local […]
Members of the Rainy River OPP, in tandem with the Ministry of Natural Resources, inspected more than 50 vessels on the lower Rainy River on Oct. 12, resulting in charges against boaters, police announced this morning. The marine enforcement initiative saw vessels inspected from Stratton to Lake of the Woods, […]
The effort to get the Kiwanis Club’s skate park built here keeps building momentum, with an organizational meeting planned for this Tuesday (Oct. 29) at 7 p.m. at the Memorial Sports Centre. “This meeting is really aimed at the organizational aspect of it,” said Kiwanian Steve Maki, who led a […]
Home is where the hoops are for the Muskie senior girls’ basketball squad this weekend. Coach Darren Johnson and his team are hosting their annual invitational tournament this weekend, which will include NorWOSSA rivals Dryden Eagles and Kenora Broncos, as well as the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints from Kenora. The […]
How do rural communities meet their health care needs? A community rural health forum is slated to help answer this question tomorrow from 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. at La Place Rendez-Vous. The forum is one in a series of six rural health forums planned across the province to address specific issues […]
A Reef Point Road resident’s life may have been saved early Wednesday morning due to a working smoke alarm, Fort Frances Fire Chief Steve Richardson said. The Watten Fire Protection Team responded to a fire reported at 4:20 a.m. after the only person home at the time woke up when […]
Striving to keep alive the long-standing tradition established by the now-defunct Rotary Club, the Business Improvement Area has taken up the sleigh reins with the Santa Claus parade. “We’re quite excited about it,” BIA co-ordinator Laurie Beadle said Thursday morning. “We’re still sorting out some of the details, there’s some […]
It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of Elizabeth Boyda, 91, who passed away at La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2002. She was born Elizabeth Kachurowski on June 25, 1911 in Stuartburn, Man., and moved from the family farm in 1927 […]
