Dear Sir: This is to inform you of an incident that took place on May 4 at 8:40 a.m. at Rainycrest Home for the Aged here. The fire alarm went off at Rainycrest and there was no maintenance man or supervisor in the building. The residents were lucky there wasn’t […]
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Dear sir: I am confused about the bridge between Fort Frances and International Falls. It was obvious adjunct to the dam and connects two very good neighbours. Its original cost was small as it sat on the dam. Some years back, it was enlarged at some expense. But this expenditure […]
Dear sir: On behalf of the Kidney Foundation of Canada, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the residents of Fort Frances, Couchiching, and Alberton for their generous support in our recent door-to-door canvass. Due to your contributions, $8,741 was raised! This will help the Kidney Foundation meet […]
Customers of Northwoods Gallery and Gifts finally will get to see the result of two months of renovations when owners Connie and Doug Cuthbertson open their latest expansion Friday. Northwoods will delay opening its doors that day until 11 a.m., with extended hours until 7 p.m. The latest addition increases […]
Dear sir: Your newspaper has been running articles about a proposed needle exchange program in Fort Frances. I phoned Mr. Ken Allan from the health unit, and he explained to me that sharing needles is very dangerous. People could contract hepatitis, etc. Well, as much as I know, it is […]
A number of questions remain following Friday’s announcement that the Fort Frances jail will be closed in the spring of 2004 in the wake of a “super jail” earmarked for Thunder Bay. “The details haven’t been worked out yet,” Ministry of Correctional Services spokesman Ross Virgo admitted. The Fort Frances […]
Those waiting to put that old couch out on the curb after spring cleaning may have to take it to the dump themselves as Fort Frances High School students won’t be doing their annual town clean-up this year. “It’s a big disappointment for a lot of people,” said retired teacher […]
With just 77 days to go until the parade of boats, the countdown for the sixth-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship is well underway. FFCBC board member Doug Cain gave an update to council at Monday night’s meeting, and stressed many changes have taken place since the first three-day tournament […]
After receiving provincial construction grants totalling $818,000, Fort Frances will begin a project to widen King’s Highway between York Avenue and Wright Avenue. The money has been handed over to cover a number of construction costs, some of which already have been completed by the town. “There’s two seasons in […]
“They’re like bricks in the foundation–they really are.” That’s what a former patient of La Verendrye, who wished to remain anonymous, had to say about the impact of the local hospital auxiliary on health services there. “The members of that organization have grounded in this hospital so many more accomplishments […]
Mathematics education has changed greatly since the Conservative government instituted the new mathematics curriculum in 1997, bringing it more in line with standards across North America. Instead of learning rote arithmetic, students even in the primary grades are acquiring beginning concepts from the strands of algebra, geometry, measurement, and data […]
When Geraldine Spence raised her hand to bid on the “Trail of Gold” print by Jake Vandenbrink at the annual Ducks Unlimited banquet here Friday night, she got caught up in the moment as auctioneer Telford Advent spurred on the offers. After a couple of minutes of lively and jovial […]
