In Spring, I find myself missing home more than maybe I do the rest of the year. Maybe. It isn’t so much about my childhood home, but rather the farm, the river, spring calves, dandelions. In April, play was all about water, about melting snow, of the spring run-off racing […]
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From a distance we have been watching the weather in Fort Frances. To say the least, the past two weeks have been a trial for district residents with heavy wet snow loads, torrential rain and over the past weekend, flooding. We have missed those weather-related issues, but have experienced snow, […]
Dear editor, With regards to the proposed Nuclear Waste Repository in the Ignace area, the Nuclear Waste Management had started our with many possibility’s for this repository in the granites in the Canadian Shield two of which they have already ruled out because the water out of the repository area […]
It was an absolute cacophony of sound when I walked up to the Debating Table at the Bakery in Rainy River the other morning. All ten voices were going at once, talking…no… shouting over each other. Envelopes were being waved and fists pounded on the table. Cups were sloshing and […]
I don’t ever remember stopping a cattle sale for lightening, but we did this past Saturday. What a week of weather and it doesn’t sound like we are through it all yet. To say this has been a tough spring in an understatement. Our springtime calvers are fighting every day […]
The Rainy River dock at Hannam Park is close to being submerged, due to rising water levels. The river rose 10 inches between Monday and Tuesday.
The rain and snow that hit over the weekend left many roads washed out and water in basements. The Municipality was quick to respond; Sunday saw Neil MacDonald and Brody Strachan out grading the roads and making the best of a bad and a disastrous situation. I’d like to thank […]
With sadness, the family announces the passing of Elizabeth Carol Donaldson (Anderson) of Queen Street Manor, Emo, Ontario, on Sunday, April 24, 2022, in Fort Frances, Ontario. Elizabeth was born May 18, 1935, at the home of her parents Axel and Ivah (Strachan) Anderson in the community of Box Alder, […]
With sadness we announce the passing of our dad, Randy Klem, on April 23, 2022, at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre. He was born in Fort Frances on March 13, 1956, to Fred and Ladonna Klem. He grew up and lived his whole life in Fort Frances. He […]
It is with great sadness the family announces the passing of Ruth Alexa, 67, of Kingsford Twp. peacefully on Sunday, April 17, 2022, at the La Verendrye Hospital. Ruth was born on July 18, 1954, to parents Lillian and Nicholas Ogier. Ruth worked at various jobs over the years but […]
The death of Orla Thomassen occurred in Brandon, Manitoba, on April 20, 2022. Orla will be lovingly remembered by his wife Margaret; daughters Cate (Jack Schaub), Susan Finley (Ron), Brian and Jill Kayes, Meir Serfaty, Jess Parsons; grandchildren Christian, Reed and Jillian; and great-grandchildren Valkyrie, Ronin and Arabella. Orla was […]
VOCAL MUSIC DIVISION – Adjudicator: Elizabeth Rotoff SOLO First: Joelle Bruyere, Alexis Latter, Adrianna McCoy (Honours), Madison Anderson (Honours), Colby Ashworth Cassandra Armstrong (First Class Honours), Lilly Wyder (First Class Honours) SECOND: Alasha Perrault AND Adriana Lesk (Tie) SECOND: Madison Anderson, Lilly Wyder (Honours), Harper Woolsey, Joanna Empey DUET FIRST: […]
