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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 […]

I wish there were a way around this instead of flat out admitting that I don’t have a column for you this week–nothing but excuses! I was never so frustrated in my long and rather convoluted career, but my readers have been faithful and they deserve an explanation: I had […]

“Day of Joy,” a gathering for women featuring special guest speaker Ellen Pukalo, is coming up this Saturday (May 12) from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Christian Reformed Church in Emo. An inspirational speaker from Beausejour, Man., Ellen is a city girl married to a farmer. Ellen is a stay-at-home […]

Jigs will work for walleye in all seasons wherever you fish. If you keep the following basic ideas regarding jigs in mind, you’ll be on the right track to success next time you’re on walleye water. In most situations, you should be able to get by with four jig sizes, […]

Maybe it’s just me but there isn’t the same heated competition (read rivalry) among local slo-pitch teams as there was, say, a dozen years ago. The sad lack of tournaments here on summer weekends nowadays certainly isn’t helping the current malaise on the diamonds–even though there’s a lot more teams […]