Ever since Education and Training minister Dave Johnson unveiled the new secondary school curriculum last Thursday, both teacher and student associations across the province have been voicing opinions over it. “The main problem is simply time,” said Andrew Hallikas, president of the local Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, adding his […]
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With March Break about to kick in across the district, students aren’t the only ones counting down the hours to their week off school. Teachers also are eyeing up the five-day hiatus–and many plan to make it count for “quality time.” “I’d like to put up my feet and read […]
It may have been a unanimous vote but it wasn’t an easy pitch for Geoff Gillon, community investment manager for the Rainy River Future Development Corp., to get the town to sign on again for 1999. Council agreed Monday to pay the RRFDC $58,000 for regional economic development as it […]
Speaking French was the name of the game at the “Concours d’art oratoire ‘99” last Tuesday at the Emo Inn. In the French Immersion category, which featured three students from St. Francis School, Sarah Busch placed first, followed by Jamie Beadow in second and Jennilee Korzinski third. Meanwhile, Christine Schulzki […]
Good weather, tons of people, and a bit of a profit combined to make the annual Nestor Falls Lions Club’s Winter Carnival a “great success” last weekend. Nadine Johnson, one of the organizers, said they couldn’t have asked for a better weekend to stage the carnival, with a slight wind […]
With the deadline for input on proposed changes to water level management on Namakan and Rainy Lakes coming up Friday, those downstream of the dam at Fort Frances are wondering what all this will mean for the river. And it’s a question Jennifer Mercer hasn’t been able to get much […]
NorFab Building Components Ltd. of here received a regional business achievement award at the Ontario Global Traders Awards ceremony for Northern Ontario in Sudbury last Wednesday. “We were pleasantly surprised,” said sales manager Brian Hagarty, adding Dave Bourgeault of the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines office here nominated the […]
The ball is now in the court of Abitibi-Consolidated and Boise Cascade, CAO Bill Naturkach said, after meeting with town administration about what it would take to build a new “off-bridge” Canada Customs facility here. Naturkach gave a verbal report to the committee of the whole of council Monday, along […]
First Nations students from around the district will be at the Couchiching Bingo Palace later this month to test their know-how in aboriginal matters in the first-annual “Knowledge Bowl.” Slated March 25 from 9:30 a.m. to about 2 p.m., aboriginal, Métis, and Inuit youth in grades five to eight will […]
Gwen Bell, 87, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away peacefully at La Verendrye Hospital on Tuesday, March 9, 1999. She was born Gwen Langstaff on Sept. 20, 1911 at Emo, Ont. She is survived by a daughter, Judy and husband, Bob Burgstahler, of London, Ont.; daughter-in-law, Muriel Bell; grandson, Robert […]
Sadly and unexpectedly on March 7, 1999, we saw the passing of our son, brother, grandson, nephew, cousin, and friend, Gavin Thomas Paul Bruyere. Gavin was born in Kenora, Ont. on Jan. 21, 1981. He resided in Fort Frances, Ont. since he was a toddling three-year-old and moved to Thunder […]
There is no greater love than a love for your child. It is with great sadness that the family has received word of the passing of Clint Strandhagen, 17, of Boca Raton, Fl. He fought a great fight for life and is now passed on to be with our Lord. […]
