It’s hard to believe that another year has passed—and the eighth-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship is now upon us. Especially with memories of Steve and Kent Ballan’s dramatic victory over Doug and Zach McBride last July still so fresh in our minds. But, yes, it has been a year, […]
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Dear sir: About two years ago, I wrote my first letter to the editor. I had just recently moved to Fort Frances from Rice Lake, Wis. I am a Canadian from Thunder Bay, Ont. and sometimes not very proud of it. The reason I wrote the first letter was because […]
Dear sir: On Saturday, July 20, the North Western Group of Ontario Land Surveyors met in Emo for their summer meeting. The group was very impressed by the surroundings and what the area has to offer. Owing to the distances which some people have to travel to get to these […]
Dear editor: I normally enjoy reading the stock car articles in the district newspapers but one in particular has convinced me that someone has to set the record straight! In the Fort Frances Times of Wednesday, July 17, written by “Staff,” it says, “Plagued by several delays” and “took some […]
Dear editor: I’ve read Allan Kielczewski’s letter with indifference to the rhetoric. As a subscriber to the Globe and Mail, I have become slightly better acquainted with the general non-native public’s concern over aboriginal issues. The problem with any non-native solution is that it won’t fit, however well-meaning or educated […]
Glenn Manty, 64, of 1024 York Ave. N., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Thursday, July 18, 2002 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances. He was born April 5, 1938 in Fort William, Ont. to the late Eino and Caroline Manty. Glenn spent his early years in Dinorwic and […]
Bradley Hugh Plymate, who was born Nov. 8, 1953 in Fort Frances, Ont., passed away July 3, 2002 at Rapid City Regional Hospital in Rapid City, S.D. He was the beloved son of Mabel (Engstrom) and husband, Elden Plymate, of Chisago City, Mn.; and father of Derek Plymate and wife, […]
It is with great sadness that the family announces the passing of Dorothy Rejina May (Luxton) Selman, who passed away June 30, 2002 at Thunder Bay Regional Hospital, with her family by her side. Dorothy was born to Albert and Pearl Luxton on Aug. 31, 1925 in Nakina, Ont. She […]
By Harry Vandetti
Just Passing By
Just Passing By
While that stinking garbage-hauling strike at Toronto has to be considered as bad as it gets in the world of labour relations, especially during this heat wave, we have had our moments when strikes and work stoppages generally have given us bad times in Fort Frances. A local labour leader, […]
Reuben Villagracia
A Reuben With A View
A Reuben With A View
Headlines of Allen Iverson’s recent run-in with the law is just another reminder of the sick fascination the general public has with athletes that make the rap sheet. Count me in. Despite the obvious big altercations in sports history out there—the 1918 White Sox scandal, the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial, […]
One of my fondest memories is of neighborhood parties around long tables. We all lived on a two-mile stretch on Route 12, 50 miles from the Canadian border. Sometimes we had upstate New York’s trademark—sugar-on-snow. This was maple syrup boiled to the hardball stage and poured in thin ribbons on […]
