Dear sir: My family and I were in Fort Frances this past weekend to participate in the fifth-annual Fort Frances Girls’/Women’s Hockey Association house league hockey tournament. To say the least, it was a lot of fun, and I would like to congratulate all the volunteers and sponsors who dedicated […]
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Donald Allan “Don” Pentney, 62, of Crozier, Ont., passed away Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2003 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. He was born May 7, 1941 in Rainy River, Ont. Don had worked in both Kakabeka Falls and the Geraldton area with the Ontario Provincial Police for […]
It is with great sadness that we announce the loss of our mother, Isabel, in her 94th year on Feb. 14, 2003. She was born June 9, 1909 in Virden, Man. to the late Elmer and Mary Alice English. Mother’s grandparents were 1881 pioneers at Virden, where she and her […]
Shirley Noreen Brigden was born May 31, 1931 in Fort Frances, Ont. She attended school in Fort Frances and worked in Nestor Falls, Ont. as a cabin girl, where she met her future husband, Harry. They were married March 5, 1955 in Victoria, B.C. After they were married, they lived […]
Elsie Mary Johanson, 86, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away peacefully Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2003 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances. Elsie was born July 12, 1916 in Kakabeka Falls, Ont., the eldest daughter in a family of four, to Clarence and Ellen Eady. At an early age, […]
Given the uproar surrounding Dr. Pete Sarsfield’s determination to take district businesses to court—using taxpayers’ money—to force them to comply with his ban on smoking in all enclosed public places, this isn’t the best time for the Northwestern Health Unit to be going to district municipalities seeking a five percent […]
Dear sir: In response to the letter to the editor last Wednesday (Feb. 5) in the Fort Frances Times, I fully agreed with Sue Fletcher’s issues over the Walker Avenue crisis. Where was the common sense and logic in that accident concerning public health? How could Dr. Sarsfield and his […]
Dear sir: On Sept. 6, 2002, the minister of Natural Resources announced a committee to address the nuisance bear problem in and around communities like ours all across Northwestern Ontario. A few years ago, the former minister of Natural Resources and the premier at that time announced the closure of […]
Dear sir: This is in response to the RRWT letter in last week’s paper. The only letter we received were the informational letters addressed to Dale LaBelle or myself, Jody Shypit. They were sent to the team captains and not all anglers received the letter. LaBelle’s Birch Point Camp did […]
Dear sir: In response to the Wednesday, Jan. 29 article in the Fort Frances Times entitled, “Mayor sees great potential in district.” I, like other union members, take exception to the portion of the statement that Mayor Glenn Witherspoon is a big booster to Northwestern Ontario. If Glenn were, he […]
Dear sir: I am writing this letter in response to the article in the Fort Frances Times last Wednesday (Feb. 5) entitled, “Woman helping ease the trauma.” I used to stand in front of my mirror and on a bad hair day wish I was bald. However, when my hair […]
