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 […]
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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 […]
An environmental assessment report, commissioned by CN and obtained by the Times, stated two houses on Central Avenue here are well above soil contamination levels set by the Ministry of the Environment. The MoE considers 1,000 parts per million (ppm) as contaminated. The report said soil samples taken from the […]
A subdued NDP leader Howard Hampton called his victory “bittersweet” after he handily won the new amalgamated Kenora-Rainy River riding last Thursday but watched as his party only won nine seats across the province. The Tories under Mike Harris won a second majority government with 59 seats while the Liberals […]
To say Liberals in the new Kenora-Rainy River riding were expecting a closer race between NDP leader Howard Hampton and Liberal incumbent Frank Miclash would be an understatement. Miclash himself admitted he was feeling “comfortable” going into the election–especially since the latest poll done by Oracle/MCTV showed him with a […]
The water supply was not the reason several students and some staff fell ill at Crossroads School after samples taken by the Northwestern Health last week turned out to be bacteria-free. “There never was a problem with the water,” Crossroads principal Len LaRocque said yesterday. “We got the sample back […]
Equipment will be provided to the Rainy River First Nation to allow it to do a GPS hydrographic study of the Rainy River either late this summer or next spring. Jennifer Mercer, watershed program co-ordinator for the band, said the equipment–on loan from the Ministry of Natural Resources–combines the technology […]
Katherine Halvorsen, 76, of Emo, Ont., passed away at the Port Arthur General Hospital in Thunder Bay, Ont. on Monday, June 7, 1999. She was born July 14, 1922 in Blackhawk, Ont. to the late Alex and Gladys Ross. Katherine lived in the Blackhawk area most of her life, and […]
