The employment centre at the local Northern Communit and Development Services (NCDS) centre has announced it has gone slightly above its target for helping teens find jobs this summer. The centre, a subsidy of the Ontario government, originally had hoped to find 67 people subsidized jobs but they succeeded in […]
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Every year, the Nor-West Animal Clinic here sees cases of blastomycosis. But in 2000, the disease has been on the rise “It’s nasty. It turns the lungs into solid masses, it’s awful,” said Dr. Chris Cannon of the Nor-West Animal Clinic. “There seems to be a little more than in […]
As up to 300 Fort High students wait to get their course schedules sorted out at the school’s guidance department, at least one grade 11 student is wondering if he’s going to have to wait another year to get the math and chemistry courses he needs to eventually graduate. “If […]
Fort High teachers returned to a different kind of school experience yesterday. Now that they are teaching an extra half-course along with their previous six per year under Bill 74, being a high school teacher promises for some “interesting” times ahead, math/science co-ordinator Andrew Hallikas said Tuesday. “[Yesterday] was chaos. […]
Northern Development and Mines minister Tim Hudak was in Fort Frances on Monday to reward the Rainy River District Social Service Administration Board with a $25,000 cheque for exceeding last year’s workfare placement target. The province had set a target of 30 job placements for those enrolled in the local […]
The new school year at Donald Young in Emo is off to a great start, with the installation of a new computer lab expecting to be completed by the end of September. Principal Nancy Fretter said the new lab will have 28 “modern” computers, all with a high-end Pentium II […]
“Our safe place.” That’s what Erin McMahon called the large white house on Victoria Avenue here.
After more than three years as executive director of the Community Care Access Centre here, Dave Murray will be taking over the reins of the Sault Ste. Marie Group Health Centre effective Nov. 6. “I’m really honoured to land a position like this,” said Murray, a lifelong Fort Frances resident […]
Kelsey Zacharias started her first day at Atikokan High School this week equipped with something more important than new clothes and school supplies. The 12-year-old, grade seven student had returned from the D.A.R.E. (Drug and Alcohol Resistance Education) camp at Sunny Cove here three days earlier, bringing home lessons she […]
The second auction at the revamped Stratton cattle barn was a success Saturday despite the threat of anthrax in Rainy River District. More than 640 head were sold during the annual yearling auction for prices exceeding those at similar sales in Winnipeg and southeastern Ontario. “This year I can’t buy […]
Angela Halvorsen is hoping people will want to “Get out of Town” this October. Halvorsen is a co-ordinator for the “Get out of Town” district farm tour slated Oct. 1. A joint effort between the Rainy River Federation of Agriculture and the Rainy River Future Development Corp., it offers town […]
Many people have noticed an increase in the number of large, black birds on our northern lakes in the past few years. They are cormorants, or to be more precise, Double Crested Cormorants (Phalacrocrax auritus). Old-timers tell us that they used to be very numerous here years ago, and then […]
