Over the past three years, I’ve been fortunate to be down in Florida in late January getting ready for the FLW Tour season to start up. For the past few years, my first tournament of the year has taken place the first week of February. It’s been great to get […]
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Word that 36 assisted living units will be available here to high-risk seniors by 2017, along with six in Emo and additional ones in both Rainy River and Atikokan, is welcome news—and long overdue. The need for assisted living—a bridge, so to speak, between people living in their own home […]
Dear editor: Bullying! Defamation of character! Slander! Where did the members of ISIS get their start to become terrorists? When those in leadership roles get bitten by the “power bug,” terrible things begin to happen. When they discover others, supposedly “beneath” them, have gifts to offer, too, fear sets in […]
Dear editor: I, too, am shocked at the possibility of the town killing our beloved Canada geese, who innocently drop feces near the water tower, and throw them into the dump like trash. Everyone is part of the ecosystem, including geese and you. Conservation parks are made to help birds—the […]
Dear editor: “Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line.” How many of us have called a business or government agency, managed to press all of the correct buttons in the right sequence, only to be rewarded with this recording? Do we really believe “our call is […]
Dear editor: In response to the letter headlined “Faulty logic” in last week’s Times, I do not know if the writer of this letter has some problem with what is a subsidy or what is clearly logic, but for sure I will try to address a bit of both. Firstly, […]
Mrs. Alice Lilian Gilbert, 82, passed away Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015 at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre in Thunder Bay, Ont. Alice was born Nov. 12, 1932 in Fort Frances, Ont.; she enjoyed remembering the fun she had as a child there with her friends and family. As […]
Keith Milton Lockhart, son of George Edward Lockhart and Florence Gamsby, passed away Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015. Born on April 9, 1928 in Stratton, Ont., he attended Morley Consolidated School and Fort Frances High School. He started his career as a radio announcer in Fort Frances, moved to Thunder Bay […]
It is with great sadness that the family of Elra (Sonny) Delbert Selman announces his sudden passing on Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. Elra was born Thursday, Jan. 27, 1944 to the late Delbert and Cora Selman. He worked at Busch’s Machine and Welding shop until his retirement in 2009. Elra […]
It is with great sadness that the family of Jack Curtis, a loving husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather passed, away peacefully, with his family by his side, on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015 at Rainycrest Long-Term Care in Fort Frances, Ont. He was born May 21, 1936 in Emo, Ont. to […]
It is with deep sadness that the family of Elizabeth Lucy Kapac announces her passing, at the age of 91, on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015 at Rainycrest Long-Term Care in Fort Frances, Ont. Elizabeth was born in Fort Frances in 1924 to Ann and George Demetruk, and lived in the […]
