“We’re in desperation mode,” Fort Frances Lakers’ president Milt Strachan had said back in April regarding the local Junior ‘A’ team’s future here. Carrying an expected $40,000 debt, there’s talk the 2017-18 season may be the Lakers’ last unless the team sees a significant increase in attendance, as well as […]
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Our bay on Turtle Island of Rainy Lake traditionally has had some thick aquatic plant growth. It harboured northern pike and bass, and was a great growing ground for the schools of young bass that were hatched on beds in early summer. Most of those weeds have disappeared this summer–much […]
Earl Bush, 61, of Halkirk Township, Ont., passed away Friday, July 21, 2017 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. Funeral services are pending and a complete obituary will follow.
The Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship continues today and tomorrow (July 21-22) under the big tent at the Sorting Gap Marina. Today’s weigh-in gets underway at 3:30 p.m., with the final one starting at 3 p.m. on Saturday. The 30th-annual “Railroad Daze” continues today through Sunday (July 21-23) in Rainy […]
What a week to showcase all that Fort Frances has to offer. On Sunday, St. George’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church here hosted visiting clergy, including His Eminence, the Metropolitan Yurij, spiritual head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Canada, as well as other guests from Northwestern Ontario, Manitoba, and the U.S. […]
Dear editor: Once again, the people in the north end of Fort Frances are being lied to by Wahkaihganun Futures Corp., with the blessing of town council and officials of the town. Town officials approved an incomplete building plan for the last apartments. All elevations in that plan were not […]
Have you ever been asked the question: “Do you have a hobby?” It is an easy question as most of us probably do have such a hobby. I know that I do. So do my wife, my brother and my sister, and many of the employees here at the Times. […]
The 23rd-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship is set to kick off tomorrow morning (July 20) on Rainy Lake and almost 100 boats are expected to blast off from the Sorting Gap Marina. This is always a special week for me and one that I look forward to every year. […]
By now I doubt I have to write how I feel about this weather: rain nearly every day. And truthfully, when people say to me, “Oh, we need a good rain” or “Farmers should be happy with this,” I want to lose it! Making dry hay seems to be becoming […]
The lakes of Northwestern Ontario have the power to restore a soul. And if scientists should test that hypothesis, they would concur–and it would be documented and written up in medical journals and the like, and everyone would know what Fort Frances residents (and those in surrounding communities) have known […]
Valerie Pizey, 89, of Bergland, Ont., passed away unexpectedly on Monday, July 17, 2017 at the Rainy River Health Centre in Rainy River, Ont. Funeral arrangements are pending. Online condolences may be offered at www.northridgefuneralhome.com
Nora Klyne, 86, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Friday, July 14, 2017 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances. She was born on Jan. 25, 1931 in Fort Frances to Lute and Margaret Calder. She grew up on the north of arm of Rainy Lake and never really […]
