Dear sir: This is a letter of sincere gratitude to the fantastic people of Fort Frances. I had the honour of working with a group of people involved with the first-annual “Relay for Life.” I and nine other individuals, as a team, helped organize and raise roughly $75,000 to fight […]
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Adorned in purple and gold, 120 grade 12 students and 70 OACs crossed the stage at the Memorial Sports Centre last Wednesday for the Fort Frances High School graduation ceremony. Following the customary entrance to Sir Edward Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance,” and the invocation by Rev. Gerald Van Smeerdyk, FFHS […]
A half-century of NorWOSSA football is dead. In a move that has been in serious works since last November’s NorWOSSA title game here, the Fort High Muskies, Kenora Broncos, and Dryden Eagles have joined the Winnipeg High School Football League (WHSFL), which released its schedule for the coming season Monday. […]
Now that heavy rains have been replaced by hot, sunny weather, the water level of Rainy Lake is plummeting towards normal for this time of year. Rainy Lake dropped by 2.1 cm (0.83 inches) Monday night to sit at 338.05 m (1,109.09 ft.)–a drop of 31 cm (12 inches) since […]
Arline MacDonald, 64, passed away peacefully with her family by her side on Sunday, June 24, 2001 at La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. She was born in Kirkland Lake, Ont. Arline was predeceased by her husband, Buddy Nelson; father, Roy Robinson; mother, Agnus Rind; stepfather, John Rind; and […]
