Dear sir: Concerning the recent testing of students by the Ministry of Education and Training, which lasted three hours per day for five days, for statistical purposes. These tests were done to rate our teachers’ curriculum and therefore put pressure on them. In turn, this put pressure on the students […]
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Dear editor: We would like to take a moment to inform all the daughters and sons who might have elderly parents in any of the senior citizen apartments. Although they may all seem to have the qualities you are looking for, make sure you keep checking on things that are […]
Dear sir: The official opening of the new park in Barwick was held Sunday. It was a ceremony full of fun and appreciated by the crowd. Contrary to a rumour started when the Chronicle Journal printed an article about Chapple a couple of weeks ago, we did not solve our […]
Dear sir: In the recent provincial election in the Fort Frances area, there was a gross error in judgment made by myself when I rented out half of a sign to a political party for five days. This was in no way a reflection of the opinions of Jan Kowbel, […]
With patients set to be transferred to the long-term care program in the new Rainy River hospital next week, there’s still no word on the extra funding needed from the provincial government. The cost for running the new hospital with its 21 long-term care beds and three acute care beds […]
Canadian boxing legend George Chuvalo brought his anti-drug message to about 250 youth at the Couchiching Bingo Palace yesterday . Chuvalo has fought in 97 fights against the likes of Mohammed Ali, Joe Frazier, and Floyd Paterson. Now, at age 61, he is still battling to teach children about the […]
There weren’t enough chairs for the crowd which showed up at the Fort High band’s spring concert last Wednesday night but those forced to stand along the walls didn’t seem to mind. Heather Keeler and Kim Badiuk wowed the audience with solo vocal performances, while guitarist Jena Pirie and pianist […]
The local public school board will decide next Tuesday whether it’s worthwhile to go ahead with a summer school program for grade eight students in July. Just 28 students from Rainy River to Atikokan had been enrolled in the summer school as of Friday. The board had said it needed […]
“Every day I’m going home.” That’s the outlook of 41-year-old Dana Jeffrey who, since mid-April, has been en route to Prince Edward Island from Edmonton, Alta. by canoe with fellow paddler Doug Finch. Jeffrey and Finch, a native of London, Ont., stopped over in Fort Frances on Monday night before […]
Students and parents packed into the J.A. Mathieu Auditorium on Monday night to watch almost 200 students receive awards for excelling in the academic, executive, athletic, and musical fields. Despite the high heat in the jam-packed gym, no one seemed to mind as teachers and staff recalled stories of the […]
Former Fort Frances native Tom Beechinor paid a nostalgic visit to the Portage Avenue entrance at Fort Frances High School earlier this week to reflect on the “Muskie” mural he painted on the wall there more than 30 years ago. The mural will be one of several archives left behind […]
Some skills can only be learned on the job and that’s just the road James Easton is taking as the first apprenticeship placement in the district with NCDS Career Works here. For more than a month now, Easton has been working with D&A Construction, helping build everything from decks to […]
