Local News from Across the Rainy River District
“Green Acres,” one of my all-time favourite TV series, got a timely flashback the other night. Starring Eve Gabor, who was nobody’s idea of a farm girl, the show coincided with summer’s arrival and my own experiences. Let’s say it comes close to bringing tears to my eyes when Eva’s […]
“Grassroots for the Canadian Alliance,” which wants to dump Stockwell Day as party leader, officially unveiled itself yesterday in Ottawa. Of course, they’re not to be confused with “Grassroots for Day,” which is the movement launched last month to keep Stockwell Day as leader of the Canadian Alliance. Neither one […]
Whenever I meet outdoorsman Teddy Davis and family in the Dairy Queen here, we dust off this legend again and wonder how it ever ended. The legend concerns a very lonely old fisherman, a doctor from Madison, Wis., who came among us for a great number of summers, almost 60 […]
At risk of sounding cocky, the Times’ foursome is going to kick major butt at Confederation College’s fifth-annual Scholarship Golf Tournament this Friday out at Kitchen Creek. Sure, it’s supposed to be a “fun” tournament, with the very important goal of raising funds to help local students pursue post-secondary education […]
It’s called “Kay-Nah-Chi-Wa-Nung” and you’ll have to go to the pyramids of Egypt for a parallel experience. In fact, roughly 30 miles west of Fort Frances, beyond where the rapids of the swollen Rainy River churn, past the Manitou reserve village, there is a new creation that at first glance […]
Just how are we fixed for bright ideas when it comes to community survival? That was immediately the question of the week when we heard about the disaster striking Kenora with its loss of up to 500 papermill jobs. This affects Fort Frances to an alarming extent considering we are […]
KBHW, the Christian radio station based in International Falls, has scheduled its annual “sharathon” for Aug. 7-9. Volunteers from both sides of the border will be on site to take pledges. Anyone interested in helping out can contact Peggy Gustafson at 1-218-285-7398. Upcoming programs being aired on KBHW include “The […]
Forgive me if I seem a little nervous this week but this is a debut, of sorts, for “Moving with Mike.” And I’d be fibbing if I denied having a few opening night jitters, so to speak. You see, thanks to today’s launch of the Fort Frances Times’ new Web […]
The sports fishermen are among us again, the determined-looking, all-male bands of strangers seeking overnight accommodations before catching the first planes out to the lakes. And they were piling up in our motels Monday with bad weather threatening to the north. We welcome their presence as a signal that all’s […]
SummerActive 2001, a joint effort of the Emo-La Vallee Heart Health Coalition, Northwestern Health Unit, and Emo rec council, invites you to walk, run, or bike out to the proposed new sports field north of the Emo Cemetery this Friday (May 25) at 7 p.m. “Join in the scavenger hunt, […]
Our Clover Valley Farmers’ Market remains famous for its variety of wares as well as vendors of all kinds. They come from just about every occupation as well as some far-off corners of the world.You might even meet a few farmers in there on a Saturday morning, I discovered. La […]
Dear CBS: At risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, or somebody who should just get a life, something about last Thursday’s final episode of “Survivor II: The Australian Outback” just doesn’t sit right with me. No, it wasn’t Colby’s lame-brained decision to vote Keith out instead of Tina. Nor […]
