It is a matter of life and death. Smoking and non-smoking. Why the argument in the district to continue to smoke publicly? Is smoking the reason Fort Frances and district has the highest number of cancer patients? Those voting for continuing public smoking, defying the knowledge, honest concern, and advice […]
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Dear sir: I follow with interest the anti-smoking campaign in which your paper is involved. In my opinion, there is enough information out there that should scare people to avoid the habit. There are lots of people killed through the use of alcohol or through the use of the highways, […]
Dear sir: I really appreciated the piece in the newspaper by Harry Vandetti entitled “They’re gone, but not forgotten” (F.F. Times, March 6/02). Several years ago, you ran a piece about me in regard to a show that I had produced re: “The Ed Sullivan Show Reunion” starring Carroll Burnett. […]
Dear sir: It is with much interest that I have been following the smoking bylaw debate. I find it to often be the topic of discussion, wherever I go, including our local branch of the Royal Canadian Legion in Emo. I have to wonder why the Northwestern Health Unit sent […]
To the editor: The now well-established fact that second-hand smoke is hazardous should, in itself, be sufficient to bring about prohibition of smoking in public places. Any possible problems in implementing such prohibition can be readily overcome. Many of the objections to the passing of municipal no-smoking bylaws appear to […]
Joseph Alexander “Joe” McKelvie, 79, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Saturday, March 23, 2002 at La Verendrye General Hospital. He was born Nov. 25, 1922 in Fort Frances. Joe had lived all his life in Fort Frances. He had worked at the local paper mill and was the fire […]
Ailene Stella Shabatura, 71, of 612 Third St. E., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at La Verendrye General Hospital. She was born Nov. 16, 1930 in Fort Frances and had lived here all her life. Ailene was a member of St. John’s Anglican Church and the […]
Born to John and Cheryl, nee Yerxa, of Fort Frances, Ont., a baby boy, Eli James, weighing 9 lbs. 2 oz. on March 8, 2002 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
