The Little Amik Winter Carnival is still a month away but organizers already are working to finalize details of events planned for the four-day celebration slated to kick off here Feb. 4. Dawn Booth, co-ordinator for the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce, said most of the particulars will be ironed […]
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The results of an investigation by the OPP’s anti-rackets branch into the “multi-use” facility still under construction at Westfort here could be made public by the end of the month. Det. Sgt. Costigan couldn’t reveal what he has found out after conducting a myriad of interviews and checking a slew […]
Both the Rainy River District School Board and the Northwest Catholic District School Board are headed by new directors this week as Warren Hoshizaki and Carol-Lynne Oldale take over those roles respectively. Oldale was with the Thunder Bay Catholic School Board for 29 years, serving first as vice-principal and principal […]
With 1998 being an uncertain year for Fort Frances, with the provincial government dictating changes in education and health care, not to mention the impact of the local mill strike, Mayor Glenn Witherspoon is looking forward to 1999 as being one where things can only get better. “We’re coming out […]
The number of surgeons in Fort Frances doubled Jan. 1 after Dr. Barry Anderson joined as the second general surgeon here–teaming up alongside Dr. J.A. Spencer. His arrival means the district no longer will be left without a surgeon should one of them be out of town. Dr. Anderson had […]
Christmas is long past. But whatever our personal religious commitments, now that the new year has dawned, the words of hope and peace of one religion still ring in our ears. For nearly two months late last year, we heard the carols. In chimes and bells. From street carollers and […]
Maryann Gouliquer (nee Pollard), “Granny Fox,” 95, of Atikokan, Ont., passed away peacefully Saturday, Jan. 2, 1999 at the Atikokan General Hospital E.C.W. She was born July 14, 1903 in Leroy, N.D. to the late Thomas and Mary Jane Pollard. Maryann had lived most of her life in Pinewood, Ont. […]
Agnes Speaker, 92, of Manitou Rapids Rainy River First Nation, Ont., passed away suddenly at her residence Saturday, Jan. 2, 1999. She was born Feb. 16, 1906 in Little Fork, Ont. to the late Tom and Margaret Burns. Agnes lived in Manitou Rapids all of her life, and she taught […]
Doreen Geary, 70, of 618 Second St. W., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away suddenly at her home Saturday, Jan. 2, 1999. She was born July 28, 1928 in Fort Frances to the late Gordon and Inez Breckon. Doreen received her education in Fort Frances, and was a graduate of Fort […]
After a courageous battle with cancer, Marlene Gouliquer (nee King) passed away at the Emo Hospital on Thursday, Dec. 31, 1998 in her 60th year. Marlene was born in the family home in Stratton, Ont. on Feb. 1, 1938, the second oldest daughter of Gwen and the late Allan King. […]
Francis Gailling passed away peacefully Dec. 30, 1998 at his home in Edmonton, Alta. at the age of 74 years. He was born Nov. 4, 1924 in Bremen, Sask. to the late Rosa and Mathias Gailling. He is survived by his wife, Galina; and also leaves to mourn his five […]
Mr. Donald Young Bamford, husband of Barbara Bamford, of Water Street, Miramichi, N.B., passed away at the Miramichi Regional Hospital on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 1998 at the age of 68. Born in Blissfield, N.B., he was the son of the late William and Jennie (Mersereau) Bamford. He was a retired […]
