Parents of an eight-year-old boy with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy will have to wait a bit longer to hear how the Northwest Catholic District School Board will provide wheelchair transportation to the outskirts of Dryden. Education Director John Madigan said a report to be presented at the board’s regular monthly meeting […]
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Local business and community leaders held their breath Monday as Premier Ernie Eves announced his new cabinet. And most are taking a wait-and-see approach before declaring if this region was a winner in the latest round of ministerial musical chairs. Perhaps the biggest change in this region came with the […]
After raising $4,000 for the local Easter Seals Society last year, the local Business Women’s Network is hoping to wrangle up more money for the charity—and have a good time doing it. Their fourth-annual fundraiser is slated Saturday, April 27 at the Fort Frances Curling Club. “We’re calling it ‘Miss […]
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 […]
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 […]
