Dear editor, As President of World Vision Canada, I would like to thank the 30 Hour Famine participants and organizers in Fort Frances for their valuable contribution to the most successful Canadian 30 Hour Famine ever! The annual event has exceeded this year’s goal of $3.5 million. To date, more […]
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Dear Mr. Editor: The Northern Action Group is working diligently as advocates for those in this community who seek justice and dignity because of the failure of government bodies and agencies. We like to see successes. To this regard, we would like to compliment some of the positive occurrences in […]
Dear sir, Yet another letter, this time by Mr. R. Garbowski (Aug. 23, 2000), suggests that cormorants are depleting game fish in local lakes and hints at the issue of predator control. Let’s get a firm grip on the ecological reality of having more than six billion people inhabiting this […]
Dear sir: I joined some 3000 UNB’ers in Fredericton for the Millennium Reunion Aug. 3-6. The organizers did a bang-up job and kept us busy breakfast to midnight plus. The city is alive, the University “On the Hill” had expanded four fold (since ’48), but the old arts building, the […]
Dear sir: I’d like to thank the organizers and volunteers for planning the D.A.R.E. camp. I had a great time. Sunny Cove was a great place for camp. I’d especially like to thank the cooks for the great food. I enjoyed swimming, canoeing, playing the sports, and the food. I […]
The S.A.F.E. Baby program (Smoke Alarm For Every Baby) is over 20 months old here and to date, more than 500 smoke alarms have been distributed to the parents of each baby born in the district.The program is made possible and funded by Gillons’ Insurance Brokers Ltd., Holmlund Financial, and […]
Many people have noticed an increase in the number of large, black birds on our northern lakes in the past few years. They are cormorants, or to be more precise, Double Crested Cormorants (Phalacrocrax auritus). Old-timers tell us that they used to be very numerous here years ago, and then […]
Audrey June Lloyd, born March 17, 1930 at Winnipeg, Man., passed away Aug. 29, 2000 at Nanaimo, B.C. Audrey taught school at a one-room school house in Miscampbell, Ont. before she married and raised her eight children. She moved to Vancouver Island in 1965, where she lived her next 45 […]
Florence Agnes Olsson was born Feb. 10, 1917 in Fort Frances, Ont. and passed away Aug. 14, 2000 in White Rock, B.C. She was predeceased by her husband Bert. Florence is loved and sadly missed by her children Thomas, Richard, Lenore, Teresa and their spouses, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and her many […]
I am writing this letter to express my concern over the impact that Bill 74 (the Education Accountability Act 2000) will have on our local education system. Presently, the section of this bill that has received the majority of media attention is the potential mandatory extra-curricular. Although, traditionally, extra-curricular activities […]
Dear editor: On behalf of the Front Street Manor we would to thank the following businesses for there donations for prizes for Front Street Tenants, for the Summer Sizzler which took place on August the 13, 2000. Lowey’s Market Garden, Maureen Gill (from Tracey’s), Howarths, Pizza Hut, North Air, Dairy […]
Dear editor: In response to Gordon Earle’s commentary on the defence of cormorants, it is in the interests of the ‘ecology’ of Rainy Lake to take a serious approach to the study of this issue by the MNR and determine to what degree the dramatic increase in cormorant populations have […]
