Dear editor: Upon reading the Wednesday, Jan. 16 edition of the Times, I was shocked to see Todd Hamilton attacking the Times for his shortcomings at the polls. Then he attacked Ken Perry’s supporters. He claimed our writings were lies and untruths, saying we were mudslinging and had inaccuracies in […]
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Dear editor: Residents of Emo, wake up and smell the coffee, or you’re going to wake up to an “offal” smell. Putting an abattoir anywhere near a residential area makes absolutely no sense. Let’s drop the sugar-coated words and realize that an abattoir is a nice word for kill plant/slaughterhouse. […]
William Andrew (Bill) McQuaker, 95, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances. Funeral services will be held on Friday, Jan. 25, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. at Knox United Church in Fort Frances. United Church Minister Peggy Mason will officiate […]
Richard J. Hughes (Ted), 88, passed away at the Rainy River Health Centre in Rainy River, Ont. on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. Ted was born June 14, 1919 in Rainy River to the late Wallace and Ivy Hughes. He served his country in the Royal Army Service Corp, attached to […]
REINO WILLIAM PITKANEN On Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008, at Rainycrest Home for the Aged, Fort Frances, Ont., Reino William Pitkanen passed away with his family by his side. Ray was born on Jan. 15, 1932. Ray met the love of his life, Marlene Peterson, and they were married in 1952. […]
LIUBOVI MORUZ Liubovi Moruz, formerly of Nelles Township, Ont., passed away Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008 at La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. at the age of 86. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Margaret Archie passed away Monday, Jan. 14, 2008 at the Victoria Hospital in Winnipeg, Man. at the age of 51. She was born Sept. 25, 1956 in Rainy River, Ont. She was raised at Big Grassy First Nation, moving to Winnipeg in the early 1970s. She worked at various camps […]
With F.H. Huffman School likely to close, in favour of consolidating its students in a new school at the Robert Moore site on Second Street East, the last of the public board’s small “neighbourhood” schools will be gone. The slow process actually began in the early 1980s with the closure […]
