If proposals from the federal Electoral Boundaries Commission are approved following a series of public meetings, electoral boundaries throughout Canada will change by 2004. The proposed boundary change for the Kenora-Rainy River riding would see Atikokan and Ignace, which currently are included in the Thunder Bay-Atikokan riding, voting here instead. […]
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As part of a final push to raise money for the “Community Chest” as its charity for the year, local Safeway employees are holding a fundraiser walk this coming Sunday (Aug. 25). While all the details are in place, organizers still are working hard to drum up interest in […]
With the annual Terry Fox Run coming up here Sept. 15, Pharmasave staff for a second year in a row are challenging any other business or organization to a fundraising showdown. Sabrina “Lightning” Stoessinger, Pharmasave employee and organizer of the “challenge campaign,” said Friday that staff there “would like to […]
Pither’s Point, which had been declared “unsafe for swimming” Aug. 9 due to a high bacterial count in the water, was reopened over the weekend after two consecutive test results came back “clean” to the Northwestern Health Unit. Further samples taken from Sand Bay last Tuesday and Wednesday were sent […]
Bertha Annie Elliott, 89, of Rainycrest Home for Aged, 550 Osborne St., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away at her residence Saturday, Aug. 17, 2002. She was born Nov. 9, 1912 in Iron River, Wis. to the late Francois and Nathalie Desrochers. Bertha moved with her family to Crozier, Ont. at […]
In loving memory of Raymond Michael Parnell, 69, of Fort Frances, Ont., who passed away suddenly Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2002 at La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances. He will be greatly missed by his wife, June; daughters, Susan Parnell of Calgary, Alta., Valerie and husband, Dan Calvert, of Fort Frances, […]
The Borderland Thunder acquired another big defenceman Thursday, shipping forward Cole Hayward and an undisclosed amount of cash to the Selkirk Steelers of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League for Chris Schaen. “It’s a deal that’s been in the works,” Thunder head coach Dave Allison said. “We’ve been concerned with David […]
Sis Wilson of Barwick cried tears of joy when she was crowned the 2002 Emo Fair Queen at the Emo/La Vallee Community Centre on Thursday night. The standing-room only crowd clapped wildly when 2001 Fair Queen Kelly Neilson put the crown on Wilson’s head. Krista Kellar was named First Princess […]
Kenora OPP is investigating an accident which killed four people around 7 a.m. today on the Trans-Canada Highway about five km east of the Highway 71 junction. A fifth person was taken to Lake of the Woods District Hospital in Kenora, police said. The accident involved a transport truck and […]
Forget bunkers and trees, the weather may be public enemy number-one for the field coming in the annual Kitchen Creek Classic men’s golf tournament this weekend. Forecasts of rain this weekend—which may interrupt play in the two-day, 36-hole tourney—are keeping organizers of the 25th-annual event wary. “There’s nothing we can […]
Quiet forest fire activity in Fort Frances District has allowed the local Ministry of Natural Resources office to deploy more FireRanger crews to fight blazes in southwest Oregon. “We’ll be sending two additional fire crews and one more technician to the ‘Sour Biscuit’ fire Saturday,” said Matt Myers, the MNR’s […]
In a second such incident this week, a local resident was charged with failing to install a smoke alarm after a small house fire Wednesday evening. The Fort Frances Fire Department responded to a report of smoke billowing from the front part of a house on the 600 block of […]
