As the district looks for economic development, it finds itself lagging behind competing areas in Canada as well as the northern U.S. Midwest 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 videoconferencing […]
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Nothing beats racing in front of the home crowd. And Johnny Lundon took full advantage of the familiar faces, coming through with a pair of first-place finishes–in the Sport Open and Sport 600 classes–in Sunday’s finals at the Mn North Snocross race here. Lundon also placed fifth in the Sport […]
Dear sir: When I came to this district in 1948, the Pipestone game reserve was in place. It started just north of Finland and ended on the south shore of Crow Lake. All the area east of Highway 71 to Clearwater Lake was banned to hunting and trapping. At that […]
Dear sir: I have been following the snowmobile debate that has been going on in this paper for the last three weeks, starting with Mr. Sundmark’s letter, followed by Mr. Hymer’s reply, and then Ms. Malbrank’s compelling argument. I would just like to bring up a point not mentioned by […]
Dear editor: We are pleased to see the piece in the paper about the district municipalities supporting our efforts in getting a hemo-dialysis unit in Fort Frances. As a member of the Coalition of Seniors, we like to see everyone’s efforts coming to fruition. But I think there is something […]
Dear sir: A while back, I had an opportunity to find out firsthand how precious our doctors and nurses at the Emo Clinic really are. I had my seven-year-old son at the clinic for a very painful ear infection. With medication, he was back to normal by the weekend. I […]
Dear sir: It recently has come to my attention the Ontario government proposes to open a number of parks to hunting. Although such as move does not come as any great surprise, given the appalling environmental record of this government, I am nonetheless outraged. Growing up in Northwestern Ontario, I […]
The Fort Frances Curling Club was packed Saturday night for the fifth-annual Chamber of Commerce awards banquet–which Tony Beyak was quick to point out shortly after being sworn in as president for a second consecutive term. “I know we have 195 people here tonight. I can think back to events […]
Veronica Dejo is very much a city girl. Born in Lima, Peru, raised in Vancouver, and educated for a year in Hong Kong, the 27-year-old thought she had experienced it all until she signed on with Experience Canada and was introduced to Fort Frances. “When we arrived here, the first […]
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 […]
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 […]
