It is with deep sadness that the family of Marcel Tookenay announces his passing on Sunday, April 10, 2016 at the age of 70. Marcel has joined his parents, Leo and Margaret; siblings, Melvin, Joseph, Ethel (Reino), and Nancy (Harley); and his great-nephew, Adam Ahola. Marcel was a gifted hockey […]
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I’m sitting here at my writing desk looking for inspiration in the tiny ball chocolates wrapped in tinfoil that were left over from the annual Easter egg hunt held here almost a month ago. Perhaps I should clarify and ’fess up. The chocolates weren’t exactly “leftovers.” I stashed a few […]
You certainly could see the grass greening up as the temperature reached double digits on Saturday! I was excited about seeing the lawn–and then thought, oh yeah, that’s the next thing: cutting grass! I still have a few large rocks to move before that first time on the lawn mower. […]
The third stop of the 2016 Walmart FLW Tour took place over the weekend at Beaver Lake, Ark. and everything went pretty good in my boat en route to an 11th-place finish. In what has been, far and away, my best season in four years of fishing this competitive bass-fishing […]
This is a busy weekend coming up and the district should be moving with so many events to take in. There will be lots of reasons to travel up and down the highway on Friday and Saturday. The final touches for the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s annual Business & […]
Don Rusnak
Member of Parliament
Thunder Bay-Rainy River
Member of Parliament
Thunder Bay-Rainy River
It has been a very busy couple of weeks for me, both in the riding and on Parliament Hill. On Thursday, April 7, I held an open house to celebrate the grand-opening of my Fort Frances constituency office. I appreciate everyone’s patience as we searched to find the right space […]
My heart has been busy with a bit of longing lately and I’m wondering from where that comes. If I could describe the ache, I would have to say I am homesick, but I’m here in my home so how is that possible? Some years ago, I came upon the […]
More than 50 years ago, U.S. President John F. Kennedy said, “Change is the law of life.” How right he was . . . and still is! In the early 1960s, when Kennedy was president, what amazing changes already had happened in my young life. Growing up in an eastern […]
There’s a push on to better develop sports tourism in Rainy River District—and for good reason. It provides a major financial shot-in-the-arm that cannot be ignored. The Dudley Hewitt Cup, which Fort Frances hosted last year, reportedly injected more than $200,000 into the local economy. Back in 2003, it was […]
Andrew Hallikas Dear Mike: The Fort Frances Library Technology Centre would like to correct some inaccuracies in the letter submitted by Cathie Sinninghe on April 13/16. We certainly appreciate Cathie’s letter and value her support and sentiments. Unfortunately, Cathy was misinformed regarding some of the staffing remarks that she mentioned. […]
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Annie Maria Gladu (nee Boon) on Tueday, April 19, 2016 at Riverview Hospital in Winnipeg, Man. after a long, courageous battle with cancer. Annie was predeceased by her brother, Hank Boon. She will be sadly missed by her husband, […]
With the deepest of regrets, we mourn the loss of our beloved brother in Christ, George Stephen Benjamin Baldwin, 61, of Fort Frances, Ont., who unexpectedly went home to his Lord & Saviour Jesus on Tuesday, April 12, 2016. Thankfully, his last wish was fulfilled as he was surrounded by […]
