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Dairy Queen Canada will hold its annual Miracle Treat Day on Aug. 13, donating the net proceeds (pre-tax purchase price minus costs) from sales of Blizzard ice cream treats in Fort Frances to the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba. Miracle Treat Day, now in its 24th year, has raised nearly $58 million […]

The Kiwanis Club of Fort Frances is celebrating a longtime member and lifelong volunteer next week and is inviting everyone to celebrate with them. In honour of Dr. Bob Lidkea, a fixture of both the Fort Frances community and local Kiwanis Club, the club will be holding a free memorial […]

For years, they’ve been the house band backing performers in Quest for the Best champions in their pursuit of the title, playing one show a year. But more recently, the local legends who once walked the halls of the town’s schools have had more time to show up at different […]

The competition was as fierce as ever, and after an exciting night of top-tier local talent, a new winner of Quest for the Best has been crowned. Cynthia Vanuden took home the top prize during Friday night’s event, emerging victorious after going head-to-head with repeat Quest winner Jaykob Ryll during […]

Construction work on some key thoroughfares through Fort Frances continues to progress this summer, but it will still be a few months before traffic can flow across town without the detours drivers have become used to. Roadwork along Third Street West started last summer, where repairs and reconstruction were made […]

The water restrictions imposed by the Town of Fort Frances on Tuesday morning have been lifted according to a Facebook post at around 11 a.m. Thursday. The restriction on watering lawns, washing cars, filling swimming pools and other non-essential uses of water was imposed after the town’s water supply dipped […]

Fort Frances resident and arts connoisseur Ken Datzkiw is working to organize a Nuit Blanche late-night art festival in Rainy Lake Square at the end of September. The term nuit blanche, which translates as “white night” in French, originally referred to a night without sleep. As a festival concept, it […]

A new memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the Town of Fort Frances and the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre (FFPLTC) board was approved during Monday evening’s council meeting. The previous MOU came into effect over 14 years ago and required modernization of the agreement of how the town and […]

A loud round of applause filled the clubhouse at Kitchen Creek Golf Club on the afternoon of Saturday, July 11, as Holly Kaemingh, Riverside’s Director of Fundraising, announced that the health provider’s inaugural fundraiser golf tournament had helped the Lights, Camera, DIAGNOSIS! campaign across the finish line to its $1.67 […]

If there’s enough local interest, Fort Frances could end up being home to its very own branch of Scouts Canada, thanks to a father who was looking to enroll his son in some extracurricular activities where he could learn new skills, but found there was no branch of the organization […]

The treasurer of the Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau (FFVB) says a partnership with the Town of Fort Frances is the only option that will allow it to continue delivering social programs out of the former train station. Due to an increase in operating costs and a decrease in monetary donations, […]

Elvira Flynn is a strong and courageous woman who has endured much along a journey that has taken her from the front lines of war-torn Ukraine to a new home in Fort Frances. Now, she is embracing her skills as a pastry chef in her new home, with plans to […]