Dear friends at the Times: Tonight is the second time that I am enjoying news from “home.” Another Fort Frances friend informed me that the Times is on-line and I was able to find it immediately. Keep up the good work! It is great to get the news new. Snail […]
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Dear sir: The international bridge here may soon become known as the Troll Bridge. Yes, it may have the proverbial troll taking up residence at the gateway to Northwestern Ontario; a real live greedy-guts able to extract whatever toll he pleases from the unfortunate travellers who are obliged to use […]
Dear sir: The Emo Lions Club recently held its annual walk-a-thon, and club members were disturbed by the negative, inaccurate reporting of the event in last week’s Times. The correspondent stated, “Unfortunately, this year’s walk-a-thon was not a profitable venture because not as many people participated.” We wonder where he […]
Dear Mr. Behan: Re: “Town going into hydro business” (April 26, 2000 edition of the Times). Mark McCaig of the Fort Frances Public Utilities Commission is wrong if he is correctly quoted as saying new taxes will be applied to all consumers to pay for the standard debt of Ontario […]
To the editor: After flipping through the paper last Monday, Tuesday, and then Wednesday, I was very disappointed not to see a single mention of the Spring Charity Ball hosted by the Fort Frances Women’s Business Network. There was, however, a full page spread on the Ducks Unlimited banquet held […]
“We provide the physicians with the tools they need to manage the patient,” explained Patti Johnson, manager of diagnostic services at La Verendrye hospital here. But the impact these medical applications have on the lives of patients go far beyond that–and Johnson is more than eager to share those little […]
Melissa Norman could probably teach us all a lesson about what’s really important in life. Since 1988, the Fort Frances woman has been living with Multiple Sclerosis–an unwelcome guest that stole her ability to walk five years ago. MS (which means “many scars”) is the most common disease of the […]
After waiting since last fall for approval from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to get 32 beds for a special needs unit, Rainycrest Home for the Aged here finally got its answer yesterday. No. “It’s news, but it’s not the news we’ve been looking for,” Rainycrest administrator Kevin […]
The Northwest Catholic District School Board has worked out its 2000/2001 budget, making a special provision for special education funding among other changes. “Previously, if we had a student who developed special needs during the year, or had a new special ed. student transferring into the system, we never had […]
The Education Accountability Act 2000 tabled by the Ministry of Education last Wednesday could see a deal struck between the Rainy River District School Board and the local Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation earlier this month go “out the window.” While the act hasn’t been passed yet, local OSSTF president […]
A campaign to prevent an increase in toll fees on the international bridge here is beginning to take shape. Petitions lobbying against the potential increases are being filled out at a number of area businesses by business owners and residents alike. “It’s ridiculous. We’ve travelled on bridges all over Canada […]
“There is nothing in here we wouldn’t want to do.” That’s how Carol-Lynne Oldale, director of education for the Northwest Catholic District School Board’s, described the fourth instalment of the Education Improvement Commission’s “Road Ahead” series during last night’s regular board meeting here. “The decision of the EIC to issue […]
