Aimee Pelletier, 17, and Melanie Halvorsen, 17, had the chance of a lifetime when they were accepted into the Canadian Education Exchange Foundation program. The three-month exchange landed Pelletier in Spain and Halvorsen in France. “I didn’t know any Spanish beforehand,” said Pelletier. “[But] I spent eight one-hour sessions with […]
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About 65 students showed off their co-op experience at the sixth-annual co-op display day yesterday at Fort High. Displays ranging from hairstyling to radiology and taxidermy were spread around the small gym from 9:30 a.m. until noon. Students clearly learned a lot–but not always what they thought they would. “They […]
Fort Frances resident Gisela Seis is calling her recent participation in the first-ever Canada/U.S. Businesswoman’s Trade Summit in Toronto “an experience of a lifetime,” and one packed with ideas for female entrepreneurs interested in the international marketplace. “It was a great learning experience and an inspirational one for me,” Seis, […]
It will be a battle of stomach endurance when four district residents get ready to rumble–a la mode–during the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market pie-eating showdown this Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon. Emo Reeve Brian Reid, Canadian Tire manager Ray Engelbertink, Times salesman Hugh McTaggart, and Times reporter Mark Elliott–originally […]
After more than $1 million in renovations, the float plane that flipped over on Lakeland Bay just over a year ago took to the air again last Thursday. The de Havilland single-Otter C-GUTL is used mainly to fly people and supplies to remote lodges. And the plane completed two trips […]
Both students and teachers are in for some changes due to the revised curriculum being implemented in elementary and secondary schools across the province come September. But the Rainy River District School Board announced a new measure to make that change a little easier at its regular monthly meeting here […]
Why would the Ministry of Health agree to build a new hospital with extra long-term care beds and not provide enough funding to fill it with patients? That’s the question baffling both Rainy River residents and Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc. here. Riverside CEO Wayne Woods said they have “pretty […]
About 60 people raised more than $5,300 in the seventh-annual “Hip Hip Hooray” walk Sunday, making it the most successful one yet since its inception here in 1993. Proceeds from the walk go to the Canadian Orthopedic Foundation. Jenny Wonfor, who chaired the local walk committee, said Monday she couldn’t […]
Ken Wickstrom, past president of the Fort Frances Rotary Club, was named a Paul Harris Fellow for his contributions to the Rotary Foundation in excess of $1,000 (U.S.) The Rotary Foundation funds humanitarian relief projects around the world. Wickstrom himself was part of a five-week group study exchange program, sponsored […]
The Northwestern Health Unit is investigating Crossroads School in Devlin after a number of students there came down with a ’flu-like sickness over the past week. “We currently have staff investigating there,” Ken Allan, infectious disease control team leader with the health unit, said Tuesday. “We’re taking water samples to […]
The sun was shining, the horses were happy to get out of the stable and run, and the riders were pumped. All in all, it was a perfect day Saturday for the Northern Ontario Therapeutic Riding Association’s fourth-annual “Freedom Ride” starting at Trail’s End Riding Stable in Devlin. The 16 […]
Hendon, Pa. (1998)–11 young people in their early teens and early 20s, all friends, headed to a cabin in the mountains. By daybreak Sunday, all of them were dead, caught in their beds by a swift fire. Toronto, Ont. (Fall of 1998)–an elderly man died from burns after he fell […]
