Atikokan residents have been urged to boil their drinking water after regular samples were found to contain harmful bacteria. “We issued a boil-water advisory because we had adverse water in test results,” confirmed Bill Limerick, environmental team leader for the Northwestern Health Unit. The boil-water advisory went into effect last […]
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Although they’ve received only a dozen or so surveys back from anglers after last month’s Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, the director of angler services is liking what she’s seeing on the forms. “This provides a good source of information for next year–and there’s been lots of positive feedback so […]
“Safeway.” Not many 11-year-olds would say that when asked what their favourite part of Fort Frances is. But that’s exactly how Dmitry (Dima) Fedoruk, a native of Belarus, answered. “In his country, they don’t have such a place where everything is there,” said Fedoruk’s host mother, Cathy Zin, explaining his […]
Caring for and reviving the fish caught during the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship–which had been taken from live wells, weighed, displayed to audience, held in tanks, and then measured and aged before taking them back to Rainy Lake–requires much effort and a great number of volunteers. According to Leo […]
Construction of a new Canada Customs and Immigration facility on Church Street here could begin in a matter of weeks after Fort Frances council gave the go-ahead at a special meeting yesterday afternoon. “I’m not happy with the customs facility but it’s the best we can have with this location,” […]
Just days before the Human Resources Centre of Canada for Students (HRCC-S) closes its doors for the season, its placement officers are proud to announce a successful summer. The centre, a division of the federal government which works to match up students and employers for the summer, said they placed […]
The Terry Fox Run–which almost didn’t happen here in Fort Frances–now has a seven-person committee to head it after a meeting Tuesday afternoon. The Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau stepped in last Friday and has now organized a group to manage the annual run next month. “[The meeting] went very well,” […]
The director of education for the Rainy River District School Board said trustee representation for the November election has been firmed up–and nothing much has changed. “Rainy River will get one, Atikokan will get one, Fort Frances will get two, Emo will get one, and Devlin/La Vallee will get one,” […]
Dear sir: As you are aware, the Lions Millennium Park was dedicated to the people of Fort Frances on July 8 by the Hon. Robert Nault, minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Developments, local MPP and NDP leader Howard Hampton, and Mayor Glenn Witherspoon before a large crowd of citizens […]
Dear editor: Yeah, it’s Rapid Robert again. The old guy with the plaid tam. I do a lot of driving, and have done a lot of driving over my 77 years, and courtesy and politeness never leave my mind. Remember when our mums and dads used to instruct us, “Now […]
Dear editor: This letter addresses comments made by Mike Baranowski (“Fishing is for the birds”–July 19), Lyle Armstrong (“Cormorants cause headaches for area cottagers”–July 19), and Allan Kielczewski (letter to the editor–July 26). First, each one claimed cormorants consume large quantities of sport fish. Studies have repeatedly shown, however, that […]
