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 […]
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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 […]
Dear editor: I would like to say thank you to those who nominated and judged me worthy of receiving the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce 2002 Business Award for Safety (individual). Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the dinner, but I am honoured and grateful. Thank you very much. Signed, […]
Dear sir: On April 7, while returning to Fort Frances from Arizona, I stopped to pay the toll on the U.S. side of the border crossing in International Falls. I handed the lady my commuter card to pay the toll and was told I still owed $4 for the utility […]
Dear Mr. Editor: Can you explain why the people who control the dam outflows are not responding to the IJC authorization (published on Jan. 28, 2002) to a reduction of the outflow to 63.7 cu. m/sec down from 103.4 cu. m/sec that is the “normal” drought stage outflow on Jan. […]
Dear sir: I know you are probably very tired of the smoking debate, but I hope you can stand just one more letter. I, too, am a non-smoker and that’s my choice—no one is telling me I have to smoke to be like them, nor could they. As a non-smoker, […]
With not a whole lot of new faces sitting around the Cabinet table after Monday’s shuffle, Ontarians are sure to get antsy pretty quickly wondering just how Premier Ernie Eves plans to usher in a “kinder, gentler” government than that of his predecessor, Mike Harris. And you can’t blame them. […]
The Canadian Wrestling Fed-eration is coming back to the area. The Ice for Kids Arena here will be the stage this Sunday at 2 p.m. for the same extreme matches and amazing stunts—complete with some new tricks of the trade. This is all to help out the local Chamber of […]
A second public meeting on a proposed bylaw banning smoking in enclosed public places here Tuesday night saw an unusual offer to give council and local businesses some direction on the contentious issue. “In order to assess the impact of smoking versus smoke-free environments, we have made a choice to […]
The Rainy River Valley Field Naturalists jumped their first hurdle last Wednesday night when Alberton council agreed to support the club’s proposed “Bog Walk” interpretative trail. Club president Bill Morgenstern gave a presentation to council outlying plans for a section of land near Whitmore Road and Peat Moss Road—specifically, part […]
