Dear sir: Thank you for redoing your Web site. It’s great! I can now find everything I want to read about the latest happenings in Fort Frances. In the past, I have tried the Web site and found it to be difficult to get around in. The new one has […]
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When a batter connects with the ball in a game, the outfielder glances at where it is going and then turns his back to the ball and begins running to a point in the field where he turns to face the ball and make the catch. It is an instant […]
Dear sir: I would like to know why the board of the Fort Frances and District Association for Community Living will not start talks with CUPE #65 to settle this strike. This cannot be working as why do they have to get people to do things (like doctor appointments, etc.) […]
Take away the first half and the Muskie ‘A’ football team held their own against the International Falls Broncos in exhibition action over there Friday night. In fact, if not for a late touchdown being called back on a procedure penalty, the Muskies actually would have outscored the Broncos in […]
The number of travellers crossing into Canada at Fort Frances has dropped by more than seven percent, or 38,847, from last year, with the most significant decrease coming from local commuters. According to the latest numbers from Canada Customs and Immigration, the number of people coming into Canada here dropped […]
Milt Guba
This Week In Emo
This Week In Emo
Two more elderly residents passed away last Thursday (Aug. 30). Sylvia Olsen left us while hospitalized at Emo Health Centre at the age of 91. Funeral services for Mrs. Olsen were held Monday afternoon from Calvary Baptist Church, with Pastor Andrew Hall officiating. She and her two sisters, Gertie MacMillan […]
Statistics report that the most read part of the newspaper is the headlines, followed by the comics. I’ve read both of those for years. But now, I’m also an avid fan of the crossword puzzles. What got me started was the conversation about crossword puzzles in my water aerobics class. […]
By Harry Vandetti
Just Passing By
Just Passing By
Now it’s football time as our Atlantis athletes warm up to a favourite occupation. Today their spectators recall the glories of past seasons and know that nothing beats the charge that follows the first snap of the pigskin. That hockey will follow is another verity in this land of the […]
Jennie Cave, 94, of Rainycrest Home for the Aged, 550 Osborne St., Fort Frances, Ont., and formerly of Heritage Home in Rainy River, Ont., passed away peacefully at her residence Sunday, Sept. 2, 2001. She was born Sept. 19, 1906 in Jarpen, Sweden to the late Josephina Erickson. She moved […]
It is with great sadness that the family of the beloved Leon Charles Bertin, 68, of Marathon, Ont., announces his passing on Aug. 3, 2001 at his home. Leon was born in Athoville, N.B. on April 11, 1933 to the late Lea and Larry Bertin. When he was 17, he […]
Sylvia May Olsen, 91, of Emo, Ont., passed away Thursday, Aug. 30, 2001 at the Emo Hospital in Emo. She was born May 16, 1910 in Barnhart, Ont. to the late Arthur and Annie West. Sylvia moved to Barwick, Ont. in 1950 and lived there until 1956, when she moved […]
