Birth date verification, or age verification of beef cattle–what is it? Age verification is the association of animal birth date data with an Animal Identification Number (single tag or tag group). There is an ever-increasing demand for accurate age determination in Canadian cattle. As such, there is a system in […]

The cold weather that’s been around for the past few days, uncomfortable as it is, has done wonders to fix the ice conditions on lakes across Sunset Country. After a mild December, most of the lakes across the region had very poor ice conditions heading into the new year. Heavy […]

As we all expected, the cold weather finally has found us—though it sounds like we still are better off than many other places, with heavy wind gusts hitting much of southern Ontario again. Northern Ontario did make the news with the failure of the bridge over the Nipigon River. I […]

JOHNSON-Born to Natasha Whitefi sh and Daniel Johnson, of Fort Frances, Ontario, a boy, Nolan Blake, weighing 9 lbs. 11 oz. on December 29, 2015 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.

ATATISE-KABATAY-Born to Shannon Kabatay and Edward Atatise Jr. of Fort Frances, Ontario, a boy, Grayson Thunder, weighing 8 lbs. 2 oz. on December 27, 2015 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.

HUNTLEY-STEVENS-Born to Ashley Stevens and Terrance Huntley, of Fort Frances, Ontario, a boy, Ivan Davin, weighing 7 lbs. 2 oz. on December 25, 2015 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.

MAINVILLE-STREY-Born to Jessica Mainville and Aj Strey, of Fort Frances, twin girls, Natalie Lynn, weighing 6 lbs. 2 oz. and Olivia Margaret, weighing 7 lbs. 1 oz. on December 23, 2015 at St. Boniface General Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

THOMS-Born to Selma and Randy, of Fort Frances, Ontario, a boy, Jasper Jett River, weighing 7 lbs. 7 oz. on December 24, 2015 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.

MORRIS-Born to Cassandra and Levi, nee Parise, of Fort Frances, Ontario, a girl, Bailey Lynn, weighing 8 lbs. 4 oz. on December 21, 2015 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.

SPRY-Born to Tyler and Leanne, nee Beck, of Devlin, Ontario, a boy, Waylon Russell, weighing 9 lbs. 1 oz. on December 17, 2015 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.

EASTON-Born to Nicole Renberg and Jim Easton, of Fort Frances, Ontario, a boy, Jack Arthur, weighing 7 lbs. 8 oz. on December 11, 2015 at HSC Women‛s Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Back in October, the town issued a plea for volunteers to help with organizing Canada Day activities here. It seems to have been heeded. Cynthia Donald and her group of six others reportedly have stepped forward to make July 1 a much bigger event in Fort Frances than it has […]