The group pushing to build new tennis courts in Fort Frances is taking the proper tack in not asking—nor expecting—the town to foot the entire bill. Rather, the group wisely is pursuing a variety of grants and even has approached Tennis Canada for funding and other help. The other big […]
Editorials
“And the Oscar goes to . . .” Okay, okay. It’s not the glitz and glamour of the Academy Awards. But for the local business community, it’s the next best thing when the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce hosts its 19th-annual awards gala next Thursday night at La Place Rendez-Vous. […]
Not surprisingly, the Ontario government’s decision to update the sex education curriculum has been greeted by howls of protest, including here in Rainy River District, where a meeting hosted by the Parents As First Educators (PARE) group drew about 75 people last month at the Emo Inn. Many of the […]
Plenty of Rainy River District eyes are focused on Moose Jaw, Sask. this week, where Devlin native Jenna Enge is playing second for the Northern Ontario rink competing at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Earlier this month, Mike Badiuk, also of Devlin, and Travis Showalter from Nestor Falls—curling with the […]
It’s great to see French Immersion has been resurrected here after the Northwest Catholic School Board began phasing it out almost a decade ago. Being bilingual in both official languages obviously is a tremendous asset in a country like Canada—opening doors to future employment opportunities and having a crucial leg […]
What will you be doing on Oct. 19? Perhaps voting in a federal election—that is, if the much-ballyhooed fixed-date section of the Canada Elections Act is followed. There’s increasing speculation, however, that Prime Minister Stephen Harper may send Canadians to the polls perhaps as early as this spring. Why the […]
Word that 36 assisted living units will be available here to high-risk seniors by 2017, along with six in Emo and additional ones in both Rainy River and Atikokan, is welcome news—and long overdue. The need for assisted living—a bridge, so to speak, between people living in their own home […]
Dogs, geese, and strippers seemed to be the hot topics of conversation here this past week. Social media was abuzz over the town’s musing to ban dogs from the Seven Oaks area at the Point while the Times’ weekly web poll on the issue garnered nearly 500 votes as of […]
Town council seems to be over-thinking what should be a fairly straightforward decision to simplify the corporate rate structure for Memorial Sports Centre memberships. The current structure involves a somewhat convoluted formula that ranges from a 15-20 percent discount depending on the number of employees with gym memberships. Instead, Community […]
With the future of Our Lady of the Way School in Stratton still in limbo, the Northwest Catholic District School Board now is weighing the merits of consolidating St. Michael’s (JK-Grade 3) and St. Francis (Grade 4-8) here. Given the multi-billion-dollar deficits the province continues to face, the Ministry of […]
There probably aren’t too many people around here who will shed a tear when we say good-bye to 2014 tonight. To say this was a challenging year is a colossal understatement—from Resolute Forest Products’ decision to permanently close its mill here to battling the rising waters of Rainy Lake and […]
Downtown. Dec. 17, 2024. The windows are covered in plywood. Someone has sprayed the boards with black spray paint—pictures of ugly beings and foul language. That one with a caricature of a leering devil used to be the florist, with lovely plants gracing the sidewalk in front. Instead of a […]
