Dear sir: I’m writing this letter to thank everyone involved in helping us find our much-loved bloodhound, Ellie Mae, who had been missing for three days when we called Fort Frances Friends of Animals. We were given the number of Pet Patrol—who “put out the call.” A work crew up […]
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Dear editor: On behalf of the 2002 graduating class, we would like to thank everyone who contributed to a successful “chem-free” party. We would like to thank the “Chem-Free Grad Committee” for all their hard work and time they dedicated to organize this event, the volunteers for helping out, and […]
Dear editor, It was a sad day for me when I learned about the flooding throughout Rainy River District. It brought back memories from the flood of ’97 here in Winnipeg. I worked many hours and days building berms around houses in hope of saving people’s properties and belongings. Even […]
Dear sir: I had been looking for any information on Donald (Dan) Fraser, who left Muskoka around 1900 for Rainy River District. Just found his wife, Emily Heffren, in the Shenston Cemetery Web site “20 Rural Cemeteries” and two daughters, Mary and Georgina. They all died from consumption. There was […]
You can’t blame district residents if they’re not in much of a party mood these days. Countless residents, farmers, and businesses are still cleaning up from the flood damage caused by torrential rains two weeks ago—while those with lakefront property continue to watch helplessly as Rainy Lake rises relentlessly to […]
As residents begin sandbagging to protect lakefront property, there’s no end in sight for the rising water level on Rainy Lake. “Water levels are still going up,” Rick Walden, engineering advisor for the International Rainy Lake Board of Control, said Tuesday. “Rainy Lake is presently at 338.51 metres [1,110.60 feet] […]
The last students to attend old Fort High on First Street East cheered last Wednesday night as they graduated from high school. The Ice for Kids Arena was packed with proud family and friends as 169 12th-graders and 59 OAC students graduated from Fort Frances High School. “We were the […]
“Fun in the Sun” officially kicked off here last Saturday with the annual Mini-Queen contest and Culturama, but organizers still have a whole lot more in store for everyone in the days leading up to Canada Day. “We’ve got some new things, which is always good, as well as some […]
Fort Frances OPP have identified the victim of a shooting incident that happened Monday night at a Devlin residence. Jeffrey Louis Shoemaker, 14, of Devlin was pronounced dead shortly after he arrived by ambulance at La Verendrye hospital here suffering from a gunshot wound. A post-mortem was scheduled for this […]
Brian Beers is as excited—and nervous—as a 42-year-old rookie can be. The reigning Kitchen Creek men’s champ is testing the amateur tournament waters for the first time this week at the 17th-annual Canadian Club Champions Championship in Whistler, B.C. “It’s more of an excited kind of nervous,” Beers said Friday […]
More than two weeks after torrential rains hit the district, the impact is still being felt. Couchiching First Nation ordered 6,000 sandbags from the Ministry of Transportation to deal with rising levels on Rainy Lake. Several homes there are in danger of flooding, with summer students having been enlisted to […]
