Dear sir: On Monday I was summoned to my door by a man soliciting for Mr. Hampton. As we chatted, a second man joined us and during the conversation, I was told that a vote cast for anyone other than the NDP was a waste. Yesterday, as I watched the […]
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Tammi Shoemaker and Gordon McTaggart were the big winners at the annual meeting of the Rainy River Future Development Corp. here last Wednesday. Shoemaker captured the Women in Business Excellence Award for outstanding committent to business, family, and community. Shoemaker, who owns Tammi’s Flowers, Cards and Gifts here, said winning […]
With the heat of summer comes the tourism season–and an estimated $1.2 billion in tourist dollars into the Northern Ontario economy. By most accounts, this season looks promising. “I think overall it looks as good as, if not slightly better, than the last few years,” said George Blanc, co-owner of […]
Local businesses which represent the tourism sector most likely got a financial shot in the arm over the U.S. Memorial Day weekend. More than 4,100 vehicles carrying some 13,800 non-residents crossed the international bridge into Fort Frances between last Thursday and Sunday–some waiting in line for more than two hours […]
Aimee Pelletier, 17, and Melanie Halvorsen, 17, had the chance of a lifetime when they were accepted into the Canadian Education Exchange Foundation program. The three-month exchange landed Pelletier in Spain and Halvorsen in France. “I didn’t know any Spanish beforehand,” said Pelletier. “[But] I spent eight one-hour sessions with […]
About 65 students showed off their co-op experience at the sixth-annual co-op display day yesterday at Fort High. Displays ranging from hairstyling to radiology and taxidermy were spread around the small gym from 9:30 a.m. until noon. Students clearly learned a lot–but not always what they thought they would. “They […]
Fort Frances resident Gisela Seis is calling her recent participation in the first-ever Canada/U.S. Businesswoman’s Trade Summit in Toronto “an experience of a lifetime,” and one packed with ideas for female entrepreneurs interested in the international marketplace. “It was a great learning experience and an inspirational one for me,” Seis, […]
It will be a battle of stomach endurance when four district residents get ready to rumble–a la mode–during the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market pie-eating showdown this Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon. Emo Reeve Brian Reid, Canadian Tire manager Ray Engelbertink, Times salesman Hugh McTaggart, and Times reporter Mark Elliott–originally […]
After more than $1 million in renovations, the float plane that flipped over on Lakeland Bay just over a year ago took to the air again last Thursday. The de Havilland single-Otter C-GUTL is used mainly to fly people and supplies to remote lodges. And the plane completed two trips […]
Both students and teachers are in for some changes due to the revised curriculum being implemented in elementary and secondary schools across the province come September. But the Rainy River District School Board announced a new measure to make that change a little easier at its regular monthly meeting here […]
Why would the Ministry of Health agree to build a new hospital with extra long-term care beds and not provide enough funding to fill it with patients? That’s the question baffling both Rainy River residents and Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc. here. Riverside CEO Wayne Woods said they have “pretty […]
About 60 people raised more than $5,300 in the seventh-annual “Hip Hip Hooray” walk Sunday, making it the most successful one yet since its inception here in 1993. Proceeds from the walk go to the Canadian Orthopedic Foundation. Jenny Wonfor, who chaired the local walk committee, said Monday she couldn’t […]
