FULCHER–Born to Kyle Fulcher and Cara Yellowega of Fort Frances, Ont., a boy, Deegan Jeffre Ronald, weighing 7 lbs. 11 oz. on March 27, 2012 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
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It is with great sadness that the family of Eugenia Campagnaro, 87, announces her passing on Saturday, April 7, 2012 at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre in Thunder Bay, Ont. It is with a feeling of gratitude and joyfulness that we know she is in the arms of […]
It is with great sadness that the family of Tammy Hayward announces her passing on Sunday, April 8, 2012. She was born Saturday, March 24, 1962 in Fort Frances, Ont. Tammy is survived by her husband, Tom Hayward, and her boys, Cole (wife Laura) and Cody. She also is survived […]
It is with heavy hearts that the family of Harold “Harco” Raymond Christiansen announces his passing on Sunday, April 8, 2012 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. Harold was born Nov. 2, 1929 in Fort Frances to John and Anna Christiansen. He was raised in Fort Frances, […]
Trudy Guimond passed away peacefully on Saturday, April 7, 2012 with family by her side. She was predeceased by her husband, Herman Guimond. Trudy was born Aug. 30, 1925 in Zeist, Holland. She met her husband, Herman, during World War II in Holland and immigrated to Canada in 1946. They […]
I love this time of year. The weather keeps getting better, the days are getting longer, and with open water, we have plenty to look forward to. Since ice fishing wrapped up a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been spending some time in the woods scouting around some of my […]
Has it really only been five months since that insane World Series which the St. Louis Cardinals won over the Texas Rangers in seven games? Other than a two-game sojourn in Tokyo last week between the Oakland A’s and Seattle Mariners that marked the official start of the season, the […]
The announcement that the province was closing the tourism information centres in Fort Frances, Rainy River, and Kenora caught everyone by surprise. In the past 12 months, the province had expanded its budget to promote fishing and hunting in the northwest. The money was targeted at major markets throughout the […]
The frogs and robins are back. I’m not suggesting the frogs hopped their way to Florida for the winter, but suffice to say they’ve wakened and crawled out of their muddy beds. The robins, meanwhile, bounce around on my lawn and I apologize to them for the cold weather we […]
It’s Monday morning and I have a hell of a lot to write about; and a whole lot of it that I really don’t want to write about, some of it that I do, and some of it that I am compelled to write about. So in lies my dilemma. […]
It seemed that March wanted to go out like a lion with that miserable dump of snow we saw at the end of last week. The barnyard had been decent up until that point but now it’s a sloppy mess. For me it’s the worst time of the year to […]
Without any discussions with tourist operators and cities across Ontario, seven Ontario Travel Information Centre (OTIC) sites will close on April 30. While 181,000 American visitors cross the International Bridge at Fort Frances, they will see that Ontario really doesn’t value their financial contribution to the economy of Northwestern Ontario […]
