The Fine Line Art Gallery hosted “Music in the Gallery” on Friday night to help raise money for the arts community in Fort Frances. About 30 people were on hand for the three-hour event, where they could view artwork by local artists as well as enjoy the instrumental melodies of […]
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While ’flu shots have been available to those in high-risk groups and health care workers since the middle of October, the Northwestern Health Unit here has been getting ready to administer the vaccine to the public starting Nov. 14. “We’re really looking at this as being much, much bigger than […]
While the Pupil Accommodation Committee won’t meet until Nov. 21 to look at three recommendations for school closures/amalgamations, any decisions aren’t expected to be made for quite some time. “It would take a minimum of two years, and possibly three or four years, before we see any real changes,” said […]
The funding for the new hemodialysis unit at La Verendrye hospital here has been cemented after the Aboriginal Dialysis Initiative donated $450,000 to the project at a presentation yesterday morning at the Red Dog Inn. With $350,000 given to the “Care Close to Home” campaign, and another $100,000 to Riverside […]
To the editor: To build or not to build is the question to be asked of the residents of the Township of Alberton in the Nov. 13 election. But we are being asked this question without any information on which to base such an important decision. Cost has been arbitrarily […]
Dear sir: The things people should know about Mr. Allan Bedard, who is running for mayor against Glenn Witherspoon in our town election. I know Mr. Bedard well. I worked very closely with him while he was a union president, and we have been friends when he was a town […]
As a self-confessed “junk-food addict,” participating in the annual Diabetes Celebrity Challenge is something I never could have imagined myself doing. That is, until George Bartlett, carrying a fuzzy teddy bear and sporting a Diabetes Awareness shirt, walked into the Times office last month and asked if I would like […]
His name has been synonymous with district newspapers for nearly four decades. Milt Guba of Emo has been writing district news since the mid-1960s and last week was honoured for his contributions by the Rainy River Record and the Canadian Community Newspapers Association. Guba was presented with a Bronze Quill, […]
There are three native wild cats in the Canadian north. One of them, the Mountain Lion or Puma, apparently has been sighted several times in the past but whether it is really here or not is still a subject for debate. The smallest of the three, the Bobcat (Lynx rufus), […]
Jessie Borrett, 83, of 120 Dorothy St., Atikokan, Ont., passed away peacefully Oct. 31, 2000 at the Atikokan General Hospital after a brief and courageous battle with cancer. Jessie was born April 26, 1917 in Delisle, Sask. to the late John and Maud Wilkie. The family moved several times before […]
In loving memory of Breck Chernaski, who passed away peacefully Monday, Oct. 30, 2000 at La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. Breck was born March 7, 1927 to the late Karl and Antonina (Klopouschak) Chernaski. Breck leaves to mourn his loving wife, Willa; brothers, Ed (Alice), and Phillip (Dianne); […]
Forever Loved Always Remembered It is with our deepest sorrow we announce the sudden passing of a wonderful mother, daughter, granddaughter, niece, cousin, and friend, Dienna Margaret Daw. Dienna was born Feb. 11, 1977 and was tragically taken from us Oct 29, 2000. She was born in Fort Frances, Ont. […]
