Riverside Health Care will hold its next open board meeting today (Sept. 27) at 6 p.m. in the boardroom at La Verendrye Hospital. A car seat clinic, hosted by the Fort Frances “Best Start” Hub in conjunction with the Couchiching Family Well-being Program and the United Native Friendship Centre, will […]
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If there was an award for resiliency in the face of adversity, the Muskie football team would win it hands down. The squad was forced to forfeit its first game of the WHSFL season against Churchill after Fort High administration, citing safety reasons, said not enough players had attended practice […]
For three days, my wife and I are living in an assisted living complex as we visit my mother-in-law. It is a beautiful building with a huge dining room. An activities co-ordinator plans group activities daily and the residents are given lots of advance notice. Monday could begin with an […]
It is with great sadness that the family of Helen Juliette Blattner (nee Mouly) announces her passing on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018 at the Regina General Hospital at the age of 80. Helen is survived by her children, Ronald (Shannon and Laura), Lavern (Leona, Derek, and Chelsey), Darren (April, Jonathon, […]
It is with great sadness that the family of Calvin Ross Durbin announce his passing. Surrounded with family by his side, Cal passed unexpectedly and peacefully on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018 at Riverside Health Care in Fort Frances, Ont. at the age of 58. Born in Fort Frances to Waldo and […]
We celebrate the love of Richard Whalen. He was a brother, an uncle, a husband, and a good friend to many. He was united in marriage to June, making lasting memories with family and friends. He was born on June 10, 1948 and passed away on May 24, 2018. Richard […]
Cheri Speidel, of Belle Fourche, S.D., passed away on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018 at age 59 after a several months’ battle with cancer. Cheri was born in Belle Fourche, the fourth of four children, on Dec. 4, 1958 to Gottlieb and Rheba Speidel. The family began dairy farming in Spearfish, […]
It is with great sadness that the family of Francesca Marinaro announces her passing, with family by her side, on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018 at the Atikokan General Hospital in Atikokan, Ont. Francesca was born on Sept. 25, 1931 in Grimaldi, Italy to Pasquale and Teresa Abate. She grew up […]
It is with heavy hearts that the family of Raymond Gushulak announces his peaceful passing, with his family at his side, on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018 at the Atikokan General Hospital in Atikokan, Ont. He fought a courageous two-year battle with cancer. Ray was born on Oct. 26, 1945 in […]
It is with great sadness the family of Leonard Haver announces his passing on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018. Peacefully, with his nieces by his side, Len has gone on to embrace a home free of pain and to join his loved ones. Leonard was born on December 30, 1928 in […]
It wasn’t exactly nice weather for bass fishing but it’s a long winter here in Northwestern Ontario so for many of us who enjoy competing in these tournaments, we’re fishing no matter what Mother Nature throws at us to get in all the fishing we can before another season comes […]
Well, I hope all of you who were complaining about the drought and the heat are happy now! Me, not so much! I realize the rain was needed but we didn’t need to have so much at one time and it did not need to drop the temperature so much. […]
