Everyone produces it. But where can it go? It’s garbage, plastic bottles, aluminum and tin cans, newspapers, telephone books, cardboard boxes, catalogues, flyers, glass bottles. On June 25, the Ontario government introduced the “Waste Diversion Act” to develop, implement, operate, and monitor waste diversion programs, and to increase public awareness […]
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Dear sir: Culturama 2001 was held June 30 in the “Ice For Kids” Arena. We would like to thank Gary, Graham, and their staff for their assistance with this event. The visiting entertainers commented to us on what a wonderful and well-kept facility it is–particularly mentioning the clean public washrooms […]
Dear sir: In a previous letter, I conveyed my feeling that the timing of the yellow traffic lights in Fort Frances was too short. Coun. Roy Avis was approached and my concerns expressed, and he took the matter to council. He has just informed me that the concern was justified, […]
Hello Fort Frances readers: I am from your neck of the woods, Crozier to be exact, and I would like to relate a story to you. About 10 years ago, when I was about to go to university, I went back home for summer vacation for a two-week period. At […]
Mark Hopkins, 39, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away suddenly Sunday, June 24, 2001. Mark was born in Iroquois Falls, Ont. on Aug. 11, 1961. He currently was working at Lakeland Personnel. He was an avid sports lover who enjoyed hockey, baseball, fishing, and golf. Mark was married to Sandy […]
Rachel Violet Ducharme, 95, of Rainycrest Home for the Aged, 550 Osborne St., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away at her residence Monday, July 2, 2001. She was born Jan. 3, 1906 in Sleeman, Ont. to the late Lionel George and Rachel Jane Armstrong. Violet attended high school in Rainy River. […]
By Harry Vandetti
Just Passing By
Just Passing By
As George Armstrong slipped into eternity here last week, it could be imagined, as suggested in this space, that Atlantis truly was being reborn. Such a celebration as never before seen at this end of the Causeway that George created occurred all week. It was as if it had awaited […]
Milt Guba
this Week In Emo
this Week In Emo
Albert and Carolyn (nee Kaemingh) Strydhorst and their children, Jessica, Andrea, and Kristin, who are missionaries to Nigeria, have been in the community for the past two weeks as guests of her parents, Henry and Thea Kaemingh. They will be leaving shortly for British Columbia. During coffee hour at the […]
By Linda Wiens
Quetico Centre
Quetico Centre
Did you know consumers are fuelling a 20 percent annual growth rate in pharmaceuticals in North America? If you have stocks, you may have benefited from that. But natural products have been edged out of the media spotlight, and languish on the shelves. After a decade of double-digit growth, vitamin, […]
When I chose to retire several years ago, I ended a 25-year career in the same institution, but I was not given the traditional gold watch. What I was given, instead, was all the time in the world and very little money. In the beginning, I never meant to retire. […]
In loving memory of Dorothy Biggs, 71, of Fort Frances, Ont., who passed away on Thursday, June 28, 2001 at La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances. Dorothy was predeceased by her husband, Bob; father; Cliff; son, Robbie; special friend, Jim Donovan; brother, Bud; brother-in-law, Barry; and nephew, Dana. She will […]
