Dear sir: More now than ever before, women must get out and vote. Our voices must be heard. As Status of Women Officer for the local OSSTF District 5B executive, I received information about election concerns and issues from the Ontario Federation of Labour Women’s Committee. Here are some of […]
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Dear editor: As candidate for chief in the next Couchiching election, I feel compelled to respond to your recent article in the Fort Frances Times where Chief Chuck McPherson asks, “How much is too much?” concerning expenditures on the Borderland Thunder. While that question is for him and his council […]
Dear editor: I attended the meeting where the three candidates in our riding debated issues which were important to the electorate. Mr. Hampton stated right off that he only was in favour of government support for the public schools. Private schools were only for the rich, he stated, who send […]
Dear sir: The provincial government, under Premier Ernie Eves, announced Ontario would provide $17.5 million to further the province’s beef producers. This is in addition to the $35 million our government already has committed—bringing Ontario’s total commitment to $52.5 million. Beef farmers, including those in the Kenora-Rainy River districts, have […]
On Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2003, Lydia Deloraine (Dolores) Weir passed away peacefully on her birthday at the age of 79, following a brief illness, in the Dryden Regional Health Centre. Born Sept. 30, 1924 in Fort Frances, Ont., she spent most of her life in the Fort Frances area and […]
Conrad Siraky, 87, of 536 Second St. W., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Friday, Sept. 26, 2003 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances. He was born May 25, 1916 in Franzfeld, Yugoslavia to the late Conrad and Katherine Siraky. In August, 1928, Conrad moved to Canada and settled […]
Barbara “Winnie” Bileski, 88, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away peacefully at Rainycrest Home for the Aged in Fort Frances with her family at her side on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2003. She was born in Goldenvale, Sask. on Aug. 11, 1915 to Fred and Mary Chowhan. She married Alex Bileski […]
Dear sir: A few weeks ago, the federal government announced the navy’s first West Coast sub arrives with a $750 million agreement to lease four used subs, with an option to purchase after eight years. A little late getting here. We could have used them to burrow through the desert […]
Dear editor: I am responding to a letter written by Nicole Strachan Miller which appeared in the Fort Frances Times on Wednesday, Sept. 17. Nicole, you looked to the First Nation for monies yourself, otherwise you wouldn’t have had the opportunity to become a lawyer. You don’t even know me […]
Dear editor: Statistics Canada has reported the number of women murdered by their intimate partners increased by 25 percent in 2001. The largest jump was seen in Ontario, which rose from 68 to 86. Jury inquests into the deaths of Arlene May and Gillian Hadley in 1998 and 2000, respectively, […]
Dear sir: I am writing to ask Health and Long-Term Care minister Tony Clement what is delaying the re-opening of Rainycrest Home for the Aged in Fort Frances? My mother has Alzheimer’s disease and has been in the Continuing Care Unit at La Verendrye Hospital here since June. Unfortunately, this […]
On Sept. 14, 2003, with her family around her, Susan Gordon Wilson passed away peacefully at the Lake of the Woods District Hospital in Kenora, Ont. after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Susan was predeceased by her parents, Susan and Thomas Geary, and Harold’s parents, Pearl and Frederick […]
