Dear editor: I was very pleased to see the coverage and picture of the snocross races held in Fort Frances last weekend. Congratulations to Johnny Lundon, Brennan Kilmister, and Brian Degagne on their achievements racing. However, I was very disappointed to see that Pinewood, Ont. is not considered local. Peter […]
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Dear sir: “Come and hunt Ontario’s pristine parks” could soon festoon tourism’s advertisements aimed at attracting big bucks from south of the border if Natural Resources minister John Snobelen refuses to acknowledge the opposing and more popular opinion of “hands off the parks.” As if it was not enough that […]
Dear sir: I was disappointed once again by the obvious bias and/or ignorance your newspaper has yet again printed! I am referring to your article on last week’s snocross in which you failed to mention the fourth local competitor, Peter Fuhrer. Peter lives in Pinewood, Ont. and to the best […]
Dear editor: The statistics quoted in the Times on Feb. 16 with regard to cellular phones are most interesting. For five years, people here in the district tried to convince Bell that cell phones were a good idea but they always said there would not be enough users. It is […]
In Sainte-Foy, Que., a 20-month-old choked to death a week after an un-popped popcorn kernel got stuck in her throat. The kernel absorbed saliva and expanded to nine mm within seven days, growing large enough to completely block the trachea. Each year, young children in Canada are at some risk […]
Elizabeth Beadle, 90, of Rainycrest Home for the Aged, 550 Osborne St., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away at her residence Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2000. Funeral services will be held Friday, Feb. 25, 2000 at 2 p.m. at the Devlin Hall in Devlin, Ont. Mr. Bruce Waddell will officiate, with interment […]
The family and friends of Ida Mae (Mame Gill) Bolestridge, who passed away Feb. 18, 2000, will hold a graveside memorial and interment service at Fort Frances Cemetery on Tuesday, May 9, 2000 at 3:30 p.m., with Rev. Terry McNear officiating. “She walked in beauty, like the night of cloudless […]
In loving memory of Ida Mae (Mame) Bolestridge, 90, of Rainycrest Home for the Aged in Fort Frances, Ont., who passed away peacefully Friday, Feb. 18, 2000 at her residence. Ida was predeceased by her first husband, Fred Gill; second husband, Walter Bolestridge; parents, Rose and Robert McGauley; brothers, Robert […]
Mrs. Elvera Roulston, 70, a resident of 275 Madeline St., passed away peacefully in Thunder Bay Regional Hospital (General) on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2000 following a brief illness. Elvera was born in Fort Frances, Ont. She resided there until her retirement from nursing in 1986, then moved with her husband […]
Our calendar has been in effect for thousands of years, right? Wrong! The calendar we use today has been in use for only about 250 years. Almost all civilizations of ancient times used “natural” divisions of time. There are three of them. The first is the day–the time for the […]
As the district looks for economic development, it finds itself lagging behind competing areas in Canada as well as the northern U.S. Midwest in telecommunications. Today’s modern businesses require telephone line, fax lines, ATM card lines, direct connection computer lines, and Internet lines. And that doesn’t bring into account videoconferencing […]
As the district looks for economic development, it finds itself lagging behind competing areas in Canada and the northern midwestern states in telecommunications. Today’s modern businesses require telephone line, fax lines, ATM card lines, direct connection computer lines and internet lines. And that doesn’t bring into account video conferencing, high […]
