Verna Calder may not be able to see much longer. Suffering from a rare form of glaucoma, Calder already has completely lost her vision in one eye—and is edging closer to becoming totally blind. Before that happens, she has one wish: to see her family again. A benefit dinner and […]
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Organizers had to compete with sunny skies Friday but “Ag Days” at the Barwick Hall was well attended this year. “We had over 100 people at the banquet,” said Shirley Morrish. “It was a feast and we had a good evening of visiting. The speakers were outstanding.” At the banquet, […]
Alberton Reeve John Milling expressed his disappointment with the Rainy River District School Board’s plan to close Alberton Central School in a letter to council. He read the letter at council’s regular monthly meeting last Wednesday night, and other councillors also spoke about their dissatisfaction with the decision. “The RRDSB […]
Since mid-September, Bethel Baptist Church here has been collecting pennies to help raise money for Nat and Thea Lehmann’s trip to Mozambique as missionaries. It was a contest between the leaders and “clubbers” in AWANA (Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed)—and races don’t come much closer than this. The kids, or […]
The chairman of the regional “Smart Growth” panel is looking forward to receiving a proposal from the Northwestern Ontario Associated Chambers of Commerce, the Northern Ontario Development Network, and the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association at a meeting next Wednesday in Thunder Bay. “Any suggestions, regardless of who it’s from or […]
Dear editor: Could you please put in the newspaper for people to pick up trash? All around Fort Frances and other places. There should be trash cans around the town. If there’s no trash can, bring it home and put it in the garbage. At the old high school, at […]
Dear editor: Build a new Customs facility, then have a traffic study? It certainly has a cart-before-the-horse ring to it. As most of you know, a traffic flow study before building the facility would have been more realistic. Of course, there would have been no need for a traffic study […]
Dear editor: I am writing in response to the Tetu sentencing in last week’s paper. I was shocked and appalled at how easy he got off. Ten years for manslaughter—and he can apply for parole in five. I think he got off pretty easy considering Deanna is serving a life […]
Dear editor: I was so shocked to read the news online about the sudden passing of our friend, Tony Beyak. I didn’t know how to send my condolences to his family so I thought I would do it, via online, through your newspaper. Lynn, I want to express my deepest […]
Newest concern Dear sir: According to your April 10 article, Michael Tetu will be eligible for parole in five years. This isn’t exactly the precedent you want to set in a town that is concerned about its lack of population growth. Unless, your goal is to create an influx of […]
Dear sir: I read the letters to the editor in regards to the smoking ban with great interest. I am a RN in a cardio-intensive care unit, and I see the results of what smoking does to our bodies and the withdrawals patients experience after surgery. Although there are many […]
Dear sir: On April 5, the headline on the front page of the Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal read “Lead Found in Drinking Water.” This was a news article about a Grade 7 student, Joe Frenette, who discovered—while working on his project for the science fair—that there was 0.03 mg of […]
