A week or so ago here at the Fort Frances Times’ office, co-op student Nicole Horn was watching an interview with her favourite hockey player, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins of the Edmonton Oilers, who mentioned the job of a garbageman was one he would never want to have. That, in turn, led […]
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For years, the Northern Health Travel Grant has provided vital assistance to northerners who have to travel out-of-town for medical services. The grants were created after nearly a decade of hard work and lobbying by former NDP MPP Jim Foulds (Port Arthur), who believed access to health care should not […]
We spend a lifetime learning how to delegate. How to make an office or a shop run efficiently. How to train new employees. How to help other people do the many tasks the workplace requires. As well as how to expand our effectiveness by passing on the responsibility. And just […]
In keeping with the giving spirit of this wonderful Christmas season, I’d like to shed light on an important development being felt throughout Canada. The use of food banks in Canada is rising dramatically to the point where widespread shortages are now occurring. It is a national problem, but one […]
Dear Mike: At the end of July, after living in Fort Frances for 23 years, my husband and I embarked on a new adventure by relocating to British Columbia. During our time in Fort Frances, we have been fortunate to make many wonderful friends and were sad to leave them […]
Dear editor: During the lockdown at Fort High last Thursday, one particular student displayed enormous courage and leadership. As the lockdown occurred during the lunch hour, many students were in the school cafeteria, including my own son. When he and I talked about the incident the following day, he told […]
Dear editor: The executive of the Seniors Retirees Against Pension and Elder Abuse (SRAPEA) read with great interest the article in last Wednesday’s Times regarding the meeting MP John Rafferty and MPP Sarah Campbell had with Richard Garneau, CEO of Resolute Forest Products Ltd., and his associate, John Valley. What […]
Dear editor: I was reading over Rainy River Resources’ views on the Rainy River Gold Project environmental assessment process and I saw how they have nonchalantly placed native consultation and consent for the project within a planning reference statement: “plans to involve and seek feedback from Aboriginal community, neighbour, and […]
It is with great sadness that the family of Howard John Brown announces his passing on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012 at home surrounded by his family. Howard was born Nov. 14, 1946 in Mine Centre, ONT. to Harold and Frances Brown. He worked as a community health representative for Lac […]
To know John was to love John, and for 88 years the world was blessed with his infectious joy of life and charismatic personality. As an acclaimed “story teller” and gregarious humourist, his legacy will resonate in our hearts forever. John Louis Moran passed away peacefully on the evening of […]
Patricia D. Dandeneau, 73, formerly of International Falls, Mn./Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 at the St. Therese Care Center in New Hope, Mn. after a long and arduous battle with COPD. She was predeceased by her husband, Bert, and mother, Sophie Chornopski. Patricia is survived by […]
Michael (“Mike”) Freeman, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away at his home. Funeral arrangements are pending, and a complete obituary will follow.
