Transportation and special education funding are topics that will be brought up by both the local public and Catholic school boards here Thursday when they meet with deputy education minister Suzanne Herbert. Both boards have been spending more than their budgets in the area of transportation for several years as […]
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After three years of not doing any serious painting, Connie Cuthbertson has made her way back into the art scene with a bang. “I was accepted to exhibit in a show–the 75th Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour,” the Fort Frances woman enthused. Although Cuthbertson, who also owns Northwoods Gallery […]
While raising children can be demanding under normal circumstances, raising physically or developmentally disabled children can take quite a toll on parents. For 10 years, the Family Relief Program here has been sending out qualified family relief workers to offer those parents periods of respite. “We have about 54 families […]
It has been almost a year since the first elk were released at Cameron Lake by the Northwestern Ontario Elk Restoration Committee and so far it’s been a great success, said co-chair Mike Solomon. “The elk are alive and well,” Solomon said last week. “With the exception of four or […]
A man had a typewriter with one bad key. All the other keys worked perfectly, however, and the man said: “What if onx kxy on my typxwritxr doxsn’t work. All thx othxr kxys work pxrfxctly. And my lxttxrs arx still vxry rxadablx. The absxnce of that onx kxy won’t makx […]
Well, I was wrong–again. I didn’t think it was possible, or even desirable, for a nation’s economy to depend primarily on tourism. But Israel is doing it, in spite of the political strife that continues to erupt violently there. I just returned from a two-week “service tour.” The first part […]
Helen Bowman, 101, of 600 Church St., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2000. She was born Aug. 5, 1899 in Newbury, Ont. to the late Robert and Jane Johnston. Helen moved to Stratton, Ont. in 1906. On May […]
A 103-year-old does yoga daily. An 85-year-old runs 17 miles a day. A 100-year-old writes weekly news notes for her local paper. A 93-year-old climbs Mount Fuji. An 84-year-old runs a successful Mary Kay business. An 85-year-old lives to play the piano at area nursing homes. A 65-year-old starts a […]
By Tyler Moffitt
Special to the Times
Special to the Times
Fire safety–and the role it plays in your life–depends on many things, including your attitude. All of us need to learn how to protect ourselves and family members from the hazards of fire. We all need to be made aware of them and reminded to be responsible, to think, and […]
Four local residents headed over the border to run in the annual Twin Cities Marathon in Minneapolis over the weekend. Lorne Ricard ran the full marathon in a time of 3:22.00 to finish 585th out of 8,000 runners. “I go every year,” he enthused. His wife, Maureen, and son, Ricky, […]
Both Muskie girls’ basketball teams will face three teams in Thunder Bay this weekend for their first tournament action of the season. The squads are slated to play against St. Thomas Aquinas (Kenora), as well as St. Ignatius and another team from Thunder Bay. “We are taking the entire junior […]
The Muskies resume NorWOSSA action tomorrow when they head up to Kenora to tackle the Beaver Brae Broncos. The black-and-gold are unbeaten in NorWOSSA action so far this season. The Muskies then will play next Tuesday (Oct. 17) in Dryden before wrapping up the regular season a week from Friday […]
