Dear editor: I am an OAC student at Fort Frances High School and last week I was told, after asking a number of people, that there would not be a Remembrance Day assembly held at the school this year. I was given several reasons for this, the first being that […]
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Hours of volunteering has paid off for Bill Gushulak, who last week was selected as the Citizen of the Year for 2000 in Fort Frances. The Citizen of the Year committee chose Gushulak for his community involvement over the years–culminating this past July with the Fort Frances High School “Millennium” […]
Details of the $700,000 pilot project at Walker/MacKenzie schools here are expected to fall into place next week as a request for proposals is due back Monday. “The request for proposals is out right now. We want to see what vendors come back with what,” said Stephen Danielson, computer systems […]
Dr. Gerald A. Niznick is a former Fort Frances resident who has made it big in the world of dentistry, or prosthodontics to be precise. Dr. Niznick’s company, Paragon Implant Co., which specializes in selling dental implant inventions, recently was purchased by a Swiss orthopedic company, Sulzer Medica, for $100 […]
A pigeon control program conducted at the Abitibi-Consolidated mill here over the past three months has not caused any ill effects on the overall bird population, several sources told the Times. Linda Wall, a supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources here, said she was unaware of any recent trend […]
In an effort to curb the spread of blood-borne diseases like hepatitis and HIV/AIDS, the Fort Area Exchange is now offering a needle exchange for local intravenous drug users. A partnership between the Northwestern Health Unit, Gizhewaadiziwin Health Access Centre, Riverside Community Counselling, and Gagne Pharmacy, used needles can be […]
As if Jerry O’Leary isn’t busy enough these days as the principal of three district schools, he’ll soon by at the helm of a municipality. O’Leary was elected mayor of the newly-amalgamated municipality of Sioux Narrows Nestor Falls on Monday night, narrowly beating Sioux Narrows Reeve Dick Motlong by a […]
He’s probably the only person who rubs his hands together in anticipation when weather forecasts call for hail. But then, Rod Harrison of Devlin has an uncanny passion for repairing automobile dents. “Hail damage repair has been my bread and butter for the past few years,” he noted. Harrison suffered […]
Nearly all childhood unintentional shooting deaths occur in or around the home. And most of those shooting deaths involve firearms that have been loaded and accessible to children. The big problem in Canada and the United States is that many children between the ages of five and 14 have died […]
It’s fall again. Autumn if you want to wax poetic. And think about it, for a minute, what would autumn be without leaves? Oaks, maples, aspens, cottonwoods, green ash all blanketing the countryside with colour. It’s because of autumn leaves that we think nostalgically and longingly of New England, the […]
In Northern Ontario, we have three grouse–the Ruffed, the Spruce, and the Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus). It is often, wrongly, called prairie chicken but that is an entirely different bird. The Sharp-tail is a little bit larger than the common Ruffed Grouse. Its conspicuous marks are a short pointed tail, […]
It is with sadness we announce of the peaceful passing of Leonard Treflin on Nov. 14, 2000 at Riverview Health Centre in Winnipeg, Man., following a brief illness, in his 88th year. Leonard was born Aug. 4, 1913 in Elm Creek, Man. but moved to the Rainy River District at […]
