Kudos to the Rainy River Arts Collective, a group which formed just this past fall but whose members already have stepped to the plate by organizing a snow sculpture contest to “make Fort Frances a winter wonderland.” The idea certainly isn’t new, of course, but anything that aims to generate […]
Editorials
The Christmas spirit was alive and well again in Fort Frances and area this holiday season, with no better example than the 24th-annual community dinner on Sunday at Knox United Church here. While numbers were down compared to past years, about 200 people were on hand to enjoy a traditional […]
Of all the pressing issues facing the Town of Fort Frances these days, the one which seems to ignite the most debate involves that relatively small piece of open space known informally as the “Nelson Street Park.” Neighbourhood residents have banded together not once or twice, nor even three times, […]
“Meals on Wheels” has been a very worthwhile program here for more than 40 years, and hopefully it will continue long into the future. To do so, however, takes help. A recent push to get more businesses and organizations involved in delivering the meals has had some success but more […]
The media has long been criticized for focusing too much on the “bad news,” with newspaper pages and newscasts dominated daily by coverage of wars, civil unrest, murders, natural disasters, economic chaos, and every other scourge that could possibly befall the human race. When it comes to teenagers, the stories […]
Well, that didn’t take long. On the first day back at Queen’s Park, barely six weeks after the Oct. 6 provincial election, the opposition Progressive Conservatives already have raised the spectre of bringing down the minority Liberal government by vowing to defeat the throne speech just minutes after it was […]
The prospect of a gold mine operation in Richardson Township, north of Barwick, remains bright after Rainy River Resources announced positive results from its latest Preliminary Economic Assessment of the gold resource at the site. Coming on the heels of news earlier this month that Coventry Resources is moving ahead […]
Local MP John Rafferty opened a can of worms last week when he chose the majority of his constituents over party lines by voting in favour of the Tories’ bill to abolish the long gun registry—a sore point here in Northwestern Ontario since it was established back in the 1990s. […]
Members of the local BIA, Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce, and town administration met for the first time on Friday to discuss the future of the Rainy Lake Hotel, and agreed to meet again by month’s end. Yay! Friday’s meeting was billed as a “positive first step,” but one is […]
There’s something seriously wrong with society when people have nothing better to do with $50,000 than bet it on the outcome of the Super Bowl coin flip while so many others go hungry day in and day out. It’s that type of obscene wealth which is fuelling the “Occupy” movement, […]
Remember when Rainy River was its own cosy little riding at Queen’s Park? Times, of course, certainly have changed. First it was the former government of Mike Harris, which, in 1999 as an apparent cost-saving measure, decided to mirror provincial ridings with their federal counterparts, thus creating Kenora-Rainy River. It […]
If Sarah Campbell was the big winner here in last Thursday’s provincial election, keeping Kenora-Rainy River NDP orange, the biggest loser clearly was democracy. Voter turnout, as feared, hit an historic low as fewer than half of those eligible to cast ballots bothered to do so—making a mockery of our […]
