It was a scene right out of PBS’s “Antique Roadshow” at the Fort Frances Museum on Saturday when area experts shared their knowledge of antiques and artifacts with the treasure-toting public. Dubbed “The Treasure Identification Clinic,” the four-hour gathering was held in conjunction with Heritage Month–an annual promotion aimed at […]
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Sheila McMahon has seen the local United Native Friendship Centre’s literacy program go through a lot of changes since its inception 10 years ago. Now executive director of the UNFC here, McMahon was the first literacy program co-ordinator. “The first year I had 10 clients,” she said, noting the current […]
Should the town build a new double-rink facility, or put a second ice surface next to the existing Memorial Arena? That is one of three questions Fort Frances council wants the public to answer before it decides what kind of facility it will build here. As the town signs off […]
The executive of the Kenora District Municipal Association has decided it won’t join in the request for a programmatic audit on the Northwestern Health Unit–at least not yet. And that has the Rainy River District Municipal Association wondering if it will have to go at it alone. “I don’t know […]
Town council will take another stab at the proposed 1998 budget next month, with almost $1 million still needing to be cut if it hopes to maintain a tax freeze for the fifth consecutive year. But whether that can be done won’t be known until the March 16 budget meeting […]
Evelyn Brown was honoured as 1997 Senior of the Year for La Vallee in recognition of her dedication to the community. A very quiet person by nature, but someone who loves people, Brown visits the sick and shut-ins in the hospital or their homes, taking along baking. She also volunteers […]
It only happens once, and the Burriss Women’s Institute wants to make sure the event doesn’t go by unnoticed. That’s why the group met Monday night to get the ball rolling on Burriss’ 100th anniversary party, which they’re aiming to hold this summer. “We’d like to have a family day […]
Laura Zimmerman and Greg Hartlin each walked away with a little cash from the annual banquet of the Rainy River District 4-H Association held Feb. 6 at the Devlin Community Hall. Zimmerman won the DeGagne Award ($100 and a trophy) as the calf club member who accumulated the greatest number […]
There’s no question all eyes in Rainy River District will be focused squarely on the Labatt Brier in Winnipeg next month given that Fort France native Rob Sinclair Jr. and former Atikokanite Dale Wiersema will be representing Northern Ontario there as members of Bruce Melville’s Port Arthur rink. Melville, making […]
Even though I’m this side of 60, I’ve never really felt old. With one exception, that is. And that exception was many years ago. I’d gone to school most of my life, and taught the rest of it. I’d travelled in the summers, and served in many places of need. […]
Edward (Ed) Cross passed away peacefully after a long battle with Alzheimer’s at Rainycrest Home for the Aged in Fort Frances, Ont. on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1998. Ed was born on Nov. 15, 1925 at Woodlea, Man. to the late Herbert and Winnifred Cross. He was raised in Barwick as […]
Willemina Christina LeMaire, 87, of Rainycrest Home for the Aged, 550 Osborne St., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Monday, Feb. 16, 1998 at La Verendrye General Hospital. She was born April 14, 1910 in Batavia, Dutch East Indies to the late Frederick and Maria Brinkman. Willemina is survived by her […]
