WILSON-Born to Wynter Tom and Conrad Wilson Sr. of Fort Frances, Ontario, a girl, Tyrzah Souel, weighing 8 lbs 8 oz. on August 23, 2016 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.
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The yellow school buses were circling the block yesterday picking up students with new backpacks and brightly-coloured runners. Lineups of cars at Robert Moore and other schools had parents dropping off their children for the first day of school. Alas, we are heading into the last long weekend of summer. […]
Don Rusnak
Member of Parliament Thunder Bay-Rainy River
Member of Parliament Thunder Bay-Rainy River
Earlier this month, I was pleased to host the Hon. Carolyn Bennett, minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs, in the Fort Frances region. Minister Bennett visited Couchiching First Nation and met with indigenous leadership from across the riding. We also toured the Nanicost building and stopped by the children’s pow-wow […]
The 12th-annual International Falls Bass Championship took place over the weekend on Rainy Lake and the Rainy River—and another successful event is in the books. A full field of 60 teams showed up again this year to participate in the event, and several tournament records were set by eventual winners […]
You know those ideas that seem like really good ones at first blush, when excitement is high and enthusiasm keen! But halfway across swimming Lake Ontario, you start to doubt your common sense and think you may have made the wrong decision—considering you only know how to dog paddle and […]
Well, another busy weekend is in the books. Our first cattle sale of the fall season was held Saturday at the Stratton sales barn, during which 631 head sold for $830,211.03. Despite cattle prices lower than last year, we still saw some decent prices. In fact, the auctioneer made a […]
Where do you stand on electoral reform? The federal government certainly wants to know. An all-party committee has been hearing from experts over the summer—and is set to conduct cross-country consultations this fall before submitting its final report by Dec. 1. Locally, Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP Don Rusnak is holding […]
David Edward Armit, 87, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016 at his son’s home in Rush City, Mn. He was born Nov. 8, 1929 to Alex and Leona Armit and grew up in Fort Frances, Ont. David loved music and played the drums in many different bands. He also […]
