Plans to build a peat plant here are, for the most part, progressing to the satisfaction of Normiska Corp. president and CEO David Graham. In a brief phone conversation from his Toronto office yesterday afternoon, Graham said ongoing activity at the company’s property along McIrvine Road is still centered around […]
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Whether you call it a community service or an environmental crusade, those who participated in cleaning up several hundred feet of Biddeson Creek here last Saturday agreed it was the right thing to do. The Baha’i community of Fort Frances organized the clean-up project as part of Earth Day celebrations. […]
Whether you call it a community service or an environmental crusade, those who participated in cleaning up several hundred feet of Biddeson Creek here last Saturday agreed it was the right thing to do. The Baha’i community of Fort Frances organized the clean-up project as part of Earth Day celebrations. […]
Anyone who remembers the staircase leading to the downstairs portion of the old Stedman’s building here will get a vivid reminder of the past when they walk into Howarth’s Home Centre these days. Howarth’s is in the process of re-opening the lower level of the store, where plans to showcase […]
Applications for federal wage subsidies are on the rise in the Rainy River District, with the Human Resources office here pulling in 76 applications from employers looking to hire students this summer under the Summer Career Placement Program. Fifty of those applications were from Fort Frances area (from Mine Centre […]
Gardens have always been a symbol of life. And now, a local group has come together to organize a “life garden” here as a tribute to organ donors and their families in Rainy River District. The Multiple Organ Retrieval and Exchange (MORE) life garden, which blooms in a Metro Toronto […]
Gardens have always been a symbol of life. And now, a local group has come together to organize a “life garden” here as a tribute to organ donors and their families in Rainy River District. The Multiple Organ Retrieval and Exchange (MORE) life garden, which blooms in a Metro Toronto […]
It’s a workshop for only the best in high school band across Northwestern Ontario–and it was the chance of a lifetime for five local students. Heather Keeler (baritone), Shaunna Cuthbertson (alto sax), Norma Kallstrom (trumpet), Kendra Ogden (trombone), and Jennifer Sinclair (French horn) left Monday morning for “Honour Band,” a […]
The Abitibi-Consolidated mill’s run of more than 6.3 million safe hours since a lost-time incident here came to an end last week after an employee who suffered an injury on the job was forced to be taken off work completely. The “hours worked without a lost time” clock was turned […]
Thirty hours without food. At first glance, it doesn’t seem like much. I mean, if a person sleeps for eight hours a day, that leaves only 22 waking hours to go hungry. Take a nap one day and sleep in, and that number drops below 20. So when Jordan Roy, […]
Bidding was strong and prices were high as close to 950 head of cattle moved through the Stratton sales yard Saturday at the second-annual spring sale held by the Rainy River Cattlemen’s Association. Buyers’ row was close to full when the sale started, with the first head of cattle being […]
KBHW Radio in International Falls will hold a charity auction at the Bob Walls Memorial Union Hall there to raise support specifically for the physical needs of its building and radio maintenance. “The facility has served us extremely well in the 15 years of our existence,” noted station manager Bruce […]
