Aimee Pelletier is all about leadership, service, and character. At least that’s what she proved to the Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation, which recently awarded her a four-year, $55,000 scholarship to help her through university after several months of interviews. “I was simply shocked,” the 18-year-old Fort High student said. “I […]
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Cellular phone service made the connection in the west end of the district last Tuesday and Wednesday when the Barwick and Rainy River towers were turned on. And Sharon Hacio, general manager of Norwest Mobility, said were was traffic on the towers almost immediately. While the official turn-on date was […]
Town council was given an update on the Fort Frances Web site at Monday night’s regular meeting, as well as a demonstration of the first phase of the G.I.S. computer-mapping program. The G.I.S. (geographical information system) is a complex program that is based on a series of maps of the […]
Former resident Neil McQuarrie, who recently published a booklet entitled “Recollections of a Fort Frances Childhood,” will see proceeds from it donated to the Fort Frances Museum as a way of saying thank you for its help to do research for his writings. Stories in the booklet are copies of […]
Megan Hebert and Zachary Byrne will be taking flight to France this Friday as the two St. Francis students fulfill the second half of an exchange agreement that began last August. And the grade eight students in the grade seven/eight French Immersion class are ready to spend several months in […]
Members of the local Beta Sigma Phi sorority plan to make their first “fashion statement” when they model a century’s worth of clothing this spring at the Red Dog Inn. “A Stroll Through the Century–Tea & Vintage Fashion Show” will take to the stage Saturday, April 15 at 2 and […]
Fort Frances High School will facilitate its bus departures with a one-way road after the Northwest Catholic District School Board approved use of the St. Francis Sportsfield parking area last night. The proposed “new road” runs northwest parallel to the high school, and branching through a wide gap in the […]
The Northwest Catholic District School Board last night agreed to eliminate the animal care committee as a statutory committee of the board due to a lack of animal research in its schools. “The elementary schools within the jurisdiction of the Northwest Catholic District School Board do not fall under definition […]
Couchiching band members have spoken–and Chuck McPherson plans to keep listening. McPherson, who was elected to his second two-year term as chief Monday, said two messages came across during public forums last Friday and Saturday–accountability and focusing on youth and economic development. “People definitely want an increased accountability from their […]
As the district looks for economic development, it finds itself lagging behind competing areas in Canada and the northern midwestern states in telecommunications. Today’s modern businesses require telephone line, fax lines, ATM card lines, direct connection computer lines and internet lines. And that doesn’t bring into account video conferencing, high […]
District motorists are facing the highest gasoline prices ever–and area businesses are being forced to adapt. As of this morning, it was costing people 70.9 cents a litre to fill up here. “We’ve been in this business 44 years and this is the highest we’ve ever seen it,” noted Mayor […]
With Emo and Alberton now on board, La Vallee will make a formal request to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing to conduct two feasibility studies on potential mergers. One will look at a possible merger of La Vallee and Alberton while the second will examine the possibility of […]
