Dear Mr. Editor: I am hoping this letter will prompt business owners in Fort Frances to be more aware of the flags that they fly in the front of their establishments. I repeatedly have called several businesses in Fort Frances over the years to ask them to either replace the […]
Editorials
District residents can cheer legislation introduced by the provincial Liberal government on Monday that, among other things, will keep the Kenora-Rainy River riding intact rather than see us tacked on to Thunder Bay, as is the case at the federal level. Back in 1996, the former Conservative government under then […]
Success in recruiting and retaining physicians is crucial to the future health of Fort Frances, so it’s comforting to see town council and others finally waking up to the urgency of the problem. True, this situation did not crop up overnight. The local physician recruitment and retention committee has been […]
“I went to the fights last night and a hockey game broke out,” the late, great Rodney Dangerfield once observed. Who knows what he might have said had he been at the Ice for Kids Arena here last night? Sure, despite its long reputation for the rough stuff (remember “Slapshot”), […]
It was good to see that the Northwest Catholic District School Board didn’t immediately pull the plug on its French Immersion program at last night’s meeting. Whether or not it can still be saved, however, remains to be seen. French Immersion was on life support last year when less than […]
Building an abattoir in the west end of the district to provincial standards, rather than to more stringent federal ones, may seem tempting on paper—especially to district cattle farmers feeling the crunch from the “mad cow” crisis. For one thing, as Peter Spuzak, president of the Rainy River Cattlemen’s Association, […]
Word that a committee is working hard to resurrect the Li’l Amik Winter Carnival here next month is welcome news. During its heyday in the mid-1990s, when it was organized by the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce, the winter carnival drew big crowds to such events as the “Frozen Foot” […]
It shouldn’t take a natural disaster, like the one of such infathomable death and destruction across a wide swath of Asia and Africa earlier this week, to make us realize that life is pretty good here in our little neck of the woods. Sure, there was plenty to gripe about […]
“For democracy to flourish, citizens need free and open access to information.” (Nancy Kranich, former president of the American Library Association) Behind closed doors Monday night, council received information from the town’s solicitor on the interpretation of the procedural bylaw of the Town of Fort Frances. From that information, council […]
News flash! Late this morning, well after the front page of today’s edition of the Fort Frances Times had been “put to bed,” Rainycrest’s board of management emerged from a closed-door meeting to announce it had passed two resolutions. The first one clarified the board’s previous resolution of Nov. 9, […]
Whew! One can only imagine the collective embarrassment among people from coast to coast to coast—not to mention the ensuing mass exodus to that saner land south of the border—had Don Cherry being chosen as the “Greatest Canadian” on Monday night. Fortunately, clearer heads prevailed and Mr. Cherry (who was […]
Town council has seen the light and authorized Community Services manager George Bell to seek out funding to renovate the Fort Frances Museum. It’s about time. The condition of the museum (housed in a century-old building), and the resulting impact on its collection, has been a big concern for more […]
