Now that winter finally is starting to bare its teeth, lakes are beginning to freeze up and another open-water fishing season is coming to an end for us here in Sunset Country. After a terrible spring, weather wise, the summer was okay while the fall actually was pretty good despite […]
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Kudos to those who stepped up Monday night to ensure the Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts will live to see another year. With the previous chair and several long-time members stepping down from the organizing committee, “Festival” (as it is commonly known) was in real danger of […]
Dear editor: I just finished reading the front page of the wartime special edition printed with last week’s Times with tears in my eyes and a big lump in my throat. In reading the articles, I remembered something from long ago. We had some people from Ukraine come to the […]
Dear editor: We would like to send our gratitude and thanks to the NorWest Animal Clinic. Our dog, “OB,” had an unfortunate accident the other night and we phoned their emergency number for assistance. We brought our dog into town, and were greeted by staff who were already there and […]
Dear editor, There is a major problem with Fort Frances; it has no industry. For years, the border-town has operated on the premise that the paper mill would provide jobs, and always continue to do so. No effort was ever made to create incentives to bring in other industries. The […]
Dear editor: Please accept this open letter to Premier Kathleen Wynne: You stand at a crossroads. Do you perpetuate the perception of a Queen’s Park that cares more about Bay Street than Main Street? Or do you show the leadership we in Northwestern Ontario expected of you when we elected […]
Jennette Ann Cross (Selman) (Abbott), 75, of Rainy River, Ont., passed away Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 at the Rainy River Health Centre with family at her side. Jennette was born in her family home in Chapple Township. She was predeceased by her parents, Gar and Mabel Abbott; brothers, Donald and […]
Valerie Jean Sjoblom, 68, of International Falls, Mn., passed away peacefully, surrounded by her loving family, on Monday, Nov. 3, 2014 at the Rainy Lake Medical Center in International Falls. She was born Jan. 14, 1946 in Kenora, Ont. to Jack and Amelia Jean (McTavish) Walker. The former Valerie Jean […]
William Mathiew Krukoski (“Krock”), 76, passed away on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014 at Rainycrest Long-Term Care in Fort Frances, Ont. He had suffered from many different ailments over the last several years and in the end, his big, huge heart simply stopped beating. Born May 4, 1938 to Matt and […]
Ernest Alexander Brunetta, 88, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away peacefully on Friday, Nov. 7, 2014 at La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances. The oldest son of Giovanni “John” and Maria, he was born into a large and loving family as Ernesto Allessandro Brunetta on Feb. 24, 1926 in Thunder […]
Colleen Laura Ball (nee Hayes) was born Oct. 15, 1925 and passed away Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014 at the age of 89 years young. Daughter of Lloyd and Vera Hayes; and granddaughter of Richard Edgar and Charlotte May Hayes and Roberta and Rosanna Irvine. Colleen was known as Kitty growing up […]
With broken hearts, the family of June (“June Bug”) Blanche Hughes, nee Perry, want you to know June passed away Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014 in Delta B.C. June was 85 years young, surrounded by her family as she left this Earth to join her husband, Doug Hughes; son, Perry Hughes, […]
