Five individuals, two organizations, and one business were honoured last week as recipients of the “2000 Heritage Awards” handed out by the Fort Frances Museum advisory committee. Individuals nominations included •Alice Widurski (nominated for her work with the Fort Frances Historical Society); •Dr. Arend Visser (nominated for his efforts in […]
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The Northwest Energy Association met Friday to discuss plans to amalgamate management for Northwestern Ontario utilities–and discuss plans in preparation for a competitive market. “We’re going to have to prove ourselves when competition shows up so we’re getting prepared,” said Larry Hebert, an NEA member from Thunder Bay. The NEA […]
Joan Allison is getting out her feather boa and dusting off her top hat for the third-annual Riverside Foundation for Health Care fundraiser dinner coming up Saturday at La Place Rendez-Vous. “We’re over 200 [guests] and that was our goal. But if we can get 230 before Thursday, it would […]
More than 500 students gathered at the Red Dog Inn last Thursday to attend the Seven Generations Education Institute’s third-annual career fair. “It’s to give aboriginal students an opportunity to see what careers are available and show them how to work towards that goal,” said Delbert Horton, chief executive officer […]
Six Fort High students learned a lot while attending sessions from law to science and technology at the recent “Encounters with Canada” conference in Ottawa. “I went to a sports and fitness one,” noted Nicole Rogozinski, a grade 10 student who attended the Jan. 31-Feb. 6 conference with Erin Anderson, […]
With the FFHS Millennium Reunion now only months away, former students from Fort Frances High School have begun to meet in their decade groups to plan their events. By the end of the month, all the decade groups will have held their inaugural meetings. Topics being discussed at the meetings […]
In Sainte-Foy, Que., a 20-month-old choked to death a week after an un-popped popcorn kernel got stuck in her throat. The kernel absorbed saliva and expanded to nine mm within seven days, growing large enough to completely block the trachea. Each year, young children in Canada are at some risk […]
By Beth Caldwell
Staff writer
Staff writer
When William John McLean travelled from Aberfoyle, Ont. in the mid-1890s to homestead 160 acres south of Devlin, his father, James, wrote to him doubting a life of farming would prove itself here. “From reading about the Rainy River District, I understand that a portion of the Rainy River Valley […]
Elizabeth Beadle, 90, of Rainycrest Home for the Aged, 550 Osborne St., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away at her residence Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2000. Funeral services will be held Friday, Feb. 25, 2000 at 2 p.m. at the Devlin Hall in Devlin, Ont. Mr. Bruce Waddell will officiate, with interment […]
The family and friends of Ida Mae (Mame Gill) Bolestridge, who passed away Feb. 18, 2000, will hold a graveside memorial and interment service at Fort Frances Cemetery on Tuesday, May 9, 2000 at 3:30 p.m., with Rev. Terry McNear officiating. “She walked in beauty, like the night of cloudless […]
In loving memory of Ida Mae (Mame) Bolestridge, 90, of Rainycrest Home for the Aged in Fort Frances, Ont., who passed away peacefully Friday, Feb. 18, 2000 at her residence. Ida was predeceased by her first husband, Fred Gill; second husband, Walter Bolestridge; parents, Rose and Robert McGauley; brothers, Robert […]
Mrs. Elvera Roulston, 70, a resident of 275 Madeline St., passed away peacefully in Thunder Bay Regional Hospital (General) on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2000 following a brief illness. Elvera was born in Fort Frances, Ont. She resided there until her retirement from nursing in 1986, then moved with her husband […]
