Dear sir: For the past two years, the Fort Frances Public Library has offered a tutoring program in which high school students are hired to tutor children between senior kindergarten and Grade 3. The tutors assist the children to get on track with their math and/or reading skills. There were […]
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Dear editor: I am writing in response to a number of articles I have seen in your paper on the province’s budget announcement de-listing optometric services for adults. Since the budget, I have been trying to understand whether the government is going to continue to protect patients who rely on […]
Dear editor, Last week’s letter entitled “Stop child porn” requires clarification. The writer claimed that “Canada’s Internet Service Providers (ISPs) refuse to follow the British lead and screen out these sites from their service. The British Telecom (BT) had set up the framework to make this easy for other providers […]
Dear sir: The fourth-annual “Relay for Life” is over and I just wanted to mention how proud I am to be involved in this event once again. Not only was it a wonderful night, all the participants and sponsors managed to raise more than $50,000. For a community as small […]
The scribe has died. Milton Samuel Guba, 77, of Emo, Ont., passed away suddenly on Sunday, June 27, 2004 at his residence. Milton was born April 8, 1927 in Otthon, Sask. to the late Andrew and Elizabeth Guba. He was predeceased by infant brothers, Arnold and Andrew; great-granddaughter, Destiny Ann; […]
Philip Chernaske passed away peacefully Saturday, June 26, 2004 at Peace Arch Hospital in White Rock, B.C. surrounded by his family. He was born Jan. 7, 1920 in Fort Frances, Ont. He will be lovingly remembered by Dini and their three children, Diane (Rick), Yvonne (Robert), and Clay (Margaret); as […]
On Friday, June 25, 2004, Cecile Marie Asselin was escorted home to heaven to be reunited with her parents, Albert and Helen Chabot; her first husband, James Abbott, and her late husband, Dona Asselin; her two children, Billy and Betty Lou; and her siblings, Fernard, Teresa, Blanche, Marcel, Arthur, and […]
Aubrey Leveridge, 88, passed away June 23, 2004 at Trail, B.C. He was born on the family farm in Burriss, Ont. on Feb. 22, 1916 to Burriss pioneer parents John and May Agnes Leveridge. Aubrey spent his childhood years on the family farm and attended Burriss Consolidated school with his […]
Rodney (Rod) Salchert, 64, of 530 Second St. W., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away suddenly Monday, June 21, 2004 in Fort Frances. He was born July 22, 1939 in Rainy River, Ont. to the late Ted and Bernice Salchert. Rod lived in Stratton, Ont. as a young child and moved […]
