The Muskie junior girls’ basketball team hasn’t won the NorWOSSA championship since 1979 season–an amazing span of 19 years considering they just compete in a three-team league against Dryden and Kenora. But Fort High finally will get to see its name inscribed on the junior trophy once again after a […]
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The Muskie senior boys went into last Friday’s NorWOSSA championship game here on a losing streak, often playing uninspired volleyball along the way. But the black-and-gold won the match that counted most, downing the Kenora Broncos in straight sets 15-10, 15-9, and 15-11 to capture the gold medal. (Because there […]
No matter which side of the fence you sit on over the Robert Latimer case, it’s clear the issue of “mercy killing” needs to be addressed by Canadians because the current ambiguity is unacceptable. Groups like the Ontario Association for Community Living and the Campaign Life Coalition applauded Monday’s decision […]
Dear editor: Frank Miclash and the Liberals are the only danger to Kenora-Rainy River’s health care system. Frank states that he will stop hospital closings in Ontario. This means he then will have to pay to keep half-empty hospitals in Toronto open. And where will this money come from? By […]
Although just 50 people attended a benefit dinner/dance Saturday night in support of local cancer patient Christina Stoessinger, organizer Linda Thorpe considered it a success. Thorpe, who lives in North Dakota, said she wasn’t overly surprised at the low turnout given the event fell on the same night as the […]
Although he doesn’t start his job until Jan. 4, the new chief executive officer for Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc. already seems excited about coming here. “I’m definitely looking forward to it . . . it will be a challenge,” Wayne Woods noted Monday. Woods was born in Pembroke, Ont. […]
After working diligently for six years to arrange and prepare for last week’s visit by the president of the World Health Organization, the chairman of the Rainy River Valley Safety Coalition could breathe a well-deserved sigh of relief. “It was worth it!” enthused Doug Anderson on Monday. “We’ve gained a […]
NCDS Career Services, Valley Adult Learning Association, and Rainy River Valley Safety Coalition staged the grand opening of their new offices last Thursday and members of all three groups had one thing to say–“We love it.” “When the landlords asked if we wanted it, we said ‘Yes!’” enthused NCDS executive […]
The Town of Fort Frances needs to find just shy of $1.5 million somewhere in the system to avoid a 20.3 percent tax increase from last year, Monday’s preliminary budget revealed. But for a preliminary budget, the town’s not in a bad position to remain tax neutral, Treasurer Carol Busch […]
With the mill out of commission for five months, local manager Jim Gartshore said it will take some doing to get things back to where they were before the strike. Still, paper could be running off one of the machines here by the end of today, with more machines coming […]
Although Abitibi-Consolidated has settled with one union, it still has to reach a collective agreement with locals for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers here and in Kenora. IAM Local 771 and IBEW 1744 spoke with the company last in October […]
Lempi Hake, 85, of Rainycrest Home for Aged, 550 Osbourne St., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away at her residence Monday, Nov. 23, 1998. She was born on Dec. 7, 1912 in Fort Frances to Johannes (John) and Serafia Takkunen. Lempi attended Miscampbell School, and was well versed in Finnish, of […]
