Dear sir: To that dear young whipper-snapper who wrote the piece on Vern O’Donnell and his grandkids in last week’s Times. For a young whipper-snapper you must be to cast vile aspersions on the facts by suggesting Mr. O’Donnell is less than a legend in anyone’s mind. Not just his […]
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To the editor: The letter in the Fort Frances Times on Aug. 4/99, entitled “Fed Up,” was not submitted by me! The opinions expressed in no way reflect my views. Signed, Bill Baranowski
Dear editor: We would like to thank the volunteers, the organizing committee, and the people of Barwick and Chapple for an outstanding job during the weekend of the 100th birthday party. Also to the Jacksons and the Woolseys for the pancake breakfasts. It was a weekend we will long remember. […]
Dear sir: Congratulations to the Chapple Heritage committee, council, recreation, volunteers, and to anyone else who helped in any way to make Chapple’s 100th birthday such a supreme success. Each and every one of you have dedicated so much of your time and effort into making this such a success […]
There are few things I enjoy more in life than garden herbs. I love the flavour they add to cooking. Even more, I love to see them thriving in my back-door herb bed and think of drying them for winter use. Oh, how they run riot when the sun is […]
There is only one thing more satisfying to a woman than being right. That in the process of being right, she proves her husband is wrong. I know this to be the truth. I’m a husband. Brian and Evie were off for a short drive. “Did you lock the front […]
Lucille Blackjack, 29, a member of Seine River Reserve, Ont., passed away Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1999 in Dryden Hospital in Dryden, Ont. She was the youngest in a large family of 13 born to Mary Friday Blackjack and Tom Blackjack on April 9, 1970. She grew up on Seine River […]
Curtis Alexander Halvorsen, 78, of Barwick, ON, passed away on Tuesday, August 10, 1999, at the Emo Hospital in Emo, ON. He was born on August 23, 1920, in Barwick, ON, to the late Hildor and Clara Halvorsen. Curtis had lived all his life in Barwick. He had worked for […]
Peacefully, on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1999, Mildred Ahrens went to be with her Lord. Mildred was a long-time resident of Rainycrest in Fort Frances, Ont. She was born in Stratton, Ont. on Aug. 18, 1920 and lived in the Rainy River District all her life. She and her husband, Otto […]
Sadly, we announce the passing of Mary Fredrickson at the Atikokan General Hospital in Atikokan, Ont. on Aug. 9, 1999 after a brief but courageous battle with cancer. She was born Mary Margaret Bowman on Jan. 18, 1930 in Chapple Township to John Nels Bowman and the former Fannie Dorothy […]
In memory of Pai-Nai-Soo-Be-Tung Fred Joseph Copenace, born on August 18, 1938, at Big Grassy First Nation. Died on Sunday, August 8, 1999. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of my husband, our father, grandfather, on Sunday, August 8, 1999 at the Rainy River Hospital. Fred […]
