This is the third in a series of articles to share information on issues of importance to parents and other members of the Fort High community. Today’s topic is course selections, and is intended to provide some important information and dates regarding completion of option sheets for the 2001-2002 year. […]
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The 19th-annual Ducks Unlimited banquet is coming up here April 27 and local DU chair Barney Maher already is confident it will be a success. “People should get their tickets now,” he stressed. “The last two years, the event has been sold out two weeks prior to the banquet.” In […]
Who will win the Oscar? Come and find out this Sunday (March 25) as the Emo Figure Skating Club presents its annual ice show, which this year is called “Oscar Night.” The show will be staged from 1-4 p.m. at the Emo arena. Admission is $7 for adults and $4 […]
“The last-minute [worries] have hit,” John Jankiewicz admitted yesterday when discussing the upcoming Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts. The Rainy River Music Festival Association, of which Jankiewicz is president, has been working hard to get the last-minute details ironed out before the April 16-29 competition. “This whole […]
Tyler Yarema is a high-energy “boogie-woogie” player who will be coming to the Townshend Theatre next Tuesday (March 27) at 7:30 p.m. to play his own style of jazz–mixed with a touch of blues and swing. One of the latest to join the recent crop of young, talented musicians sweeping […]
While “Spring Fling” was the theme of last year’s annual fundraising banquet staged by the local Business Women’s Network, the group has something else in mind for its third-annual dinner slated May 5. “This year, the Business Women’s Network is holding ‘A Touch of Italy,’ with a completely Italian menu,” […]
Jen AmOrdé came up just five pins short of the gold medal–and a berth to the national finals in Calgary in May–at the provincial round of the YBC “4 Steps to Stardom” in North Bay last weekend. Competing in the senior girls’ singles division, AmOrdé, who bowls out of Plaza […]
With the weatherman co-operating, the annual hospital auxiliary tea and bake sale at the cafeteria turned out to be another successful effort. Co-chairs Dorothy Haines and Heather Oltsher, and their auxiliary members, found the atmosphere most promising. The crew, which included Marj Jewell, Marg Leveridge, Jackie Hunsperger, and Bernice Campbell, […]
Alberton council is resigned to the fact Fort Frances can now extend its boundaries to include the landfill site. “Fort Frances can go ahead,” said Alberton Reeve John Milling. “I guess, according to the ministry regulations, it looks like they can unilaterally go ahead and take it. “I’m very disappointed,” […]
It is with great sorrow that the family announces the passing of George Whitefield on March 20, 2001. George was born Jan. 13, 1922 in Fort Frances, Ont. to the late Reginald and Jemima Whitefield. He was united in marriage to Lottie Edberg on Feb. 21, 1947. George was predeceased […]
In loving memory of Irene Leverman, 81, of Rainycrest Home for the Aged, 550 Osborne St., Fort Frances, Ont., who passed away peacefully Sunday, March 18, 2001 at her residence. She was predeceased by her husband, Gordon, on Sept. 11, 1976; parents, Annie and James Bowyer; daughter-in-law, Suzanne; and by […]
John Bishop, 88, of 130 Fifth St. E., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away suddenly at his home Friday, March 16, 2001. He was born Dec. 14, 1912 in Shelly, Ont. On April 20, 1940, he was united in marriage to the former Anna Pisco. John and Anna moved to Bergland, […]
