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” […]
Editorials
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 […]
Last Friday in Barwick, Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP Ken Boshcoff announced an imminent proposal by the federal government to designate 2005 as the “Year of the Veteran” in honour of those men and women who, over the years, have put their lives on the line for Canadians in war, and […]
With the arrival of Wal-Mart here earlier this year, and the opening tomorrow of a new and greatly expanded Canadian Tire along with a Mark’s Work Wearhouse outlet, one can understand if there are not a lot of people in the mood to celebrate Small Business Week. But while there’s […]
It’s time for Queen’s Park to quit dragging its heels on the issue of land tax reform and finally erase the gross inequity that has residents of Fort Frances and other district municipalities shouldering too much of the burden of provincial downloading. Surely even the bureaucrats pushing their pencils in […]
It seems the newly-renovated J.W. Walker School here, which held its official grand opening last Wednesday evening, is a big hit with all concerned. True, there still may be hard feelings among some parents that three smaller schools—namely Alexander MacKenzie, Sixth Street, and Alberton Central—were closed for the sake of […]
Canadians will get their first real taste of minority government in some 25 years when Parliament resumes sitting next Tuesday with the throne speech. Read by Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson, the speech will outline the legislative agenda for Paul Martin’s Liberals, who were thwarted from winning a majority government in […]
Town council deserves top marks for its decision last week that boosts residents’ ability to recycle more items—while saving taxpayers money. Council opted to abandon its previous informal agreement with Koochiching County across the river, in place since the old Northwest Ontario Recycling Association (NORA) fell by the wayside in […]
