To the editor: After reading all the negative comments concerning local businesses, I would like to relate my positive experience at Badiuk Equipment. When I was looking at a used motorcycle in February, Jim Badiuk assured me it was in excellent condition as I could not test drive the machine. […]
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Dear Mr. Editor: I would like to bring your attention to the black-and-white flag symbols that “Passport Canada” displays on their passport application forms. Appendix C 3.2 of the “FIP” (Federal Identity Program) by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat states, “The flag of Canada, modified slightly for purposes of […]
The guilty verdict delivered last Thursday afternoon in Don Smith’s second trial on obscenity charges, along with the drug raid Friday that led to five local residents being nabbed, certainly created the most buzz around town over the past week. In the Smith trial, the jury, having viewed the evidence, […]
Janet Mary Ellis, 46, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away suddenly at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre in Thunder Bay, ON on Wednesday, May 28, 2008. She was born April 28, 1962 in Sudbury, ON to the late David Crook and the late Eleta Crook (nee Berrigan). Janet […]
BLACKBURDE–Born to Skye Blackburde, of Stratton, Ont., a boy, Daniel Dwayne Peter, weighing 7 lbs. 14 oz. on May 20, 2008 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
Dear editor: On May 2, in broad daylight, my home was robbed of a quantity of cash, old bills, coins, liquor, sentimental jewellery, and keys to everything we own—all for the love of oxycodone. This is an epidemic problem in Fort Frances that has gotten far too out of control […]
Dear sir: I am interested in genealogy and now am doing a family history about my great-great-grandparents, Alexander and Elizabeth (Johnston) McNevin, who emigrated to Canada from Argyllshire, Scotland in 1839. They first settled in Andrews, Ont., and later lived on a farm in Bagot Township in Renfrew County, Ont. […]
Dear sir: We are writing with regards to the “Garden of Life” in front of the hospital, which was established to promote organ donor awareness. The demand for organs for transplantation continues to be gar greater than the available supply. Consequently, we need to encourage everyone to say “yes” to […]
