Duane Hicks Mayor Roy Avis will announce the “Citizen of the Year 2009” at tonight’s council meeting. The “Citizen of the Year” selection committee, consisting of Mayor Avis, Coun. Sharon Tibbs, Bill Gushulak (“Citizen of the Year 2000”), and Mark Kowalchuk (“Citizen of the Year 1994”), met last Wednesday to […]
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Duane Hicks A sold-out crowd packed the upstairs of La Place Rendez-Vous on Saturday night to see district businesses honoured at the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s 13th-annual business awards, presented by Bell. Canadian Tire was honoured as Business of the Year (16+ employees) while M.L. Caron Electric won Business […]
Staff The Rainy River Valley Safety Coalition received its second Safe Communities Canada Award of Excellence at the Safe Communities Canada Conference in Winnipeg on Nov. 3-4. The success of the “Project Safe Hallowe’en” district “glowstick” program was the basis for the RRVSC receiving the award. The purpose of the […]
Staff District businesses will be in the limelight tomorrow night (Nov. 8) at La Place Rendez-Vous for the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s 13th-annual business awards, presented by Bell. Chamber president Christine Denby said she‘s once again looking forward to the event. “I think the business awards are a wonderful […]
Staff The 2008 construction season of the Portage Avenue underpass is coming to an end. As of yesterday afternoon, the east side retaining wall was to have been completely poured. But some work still remains to be done, and next Monday through Sunday (Nov. 10-16) the underpass will be closed […]
the OPP Fort Frances OPP are seeking public assistance in locating a missing female youth. Trivena Andy, 14, of Devlin was last seen Wednesday around 2 p.m. at Fort Frances High School. Andy did not attend her last-period class and she failed to meet her ride home from school. Police […]
Staff Domtar Corporation announced Tuesday that it will permanently shut down the paper machine and converting operations of its Dryden mill. This will result in the permanent curtailment of Domtar’s annual paper production capacity by approximately 151,000 short tons of uncoated freesheet paper and will affect approximately 195 employees. Dryden […]
Laurel Beager – International Falls Journal Boise Inc. will temporarily idle two of its paper machines in response to a decline in orders, which may result in layoffs of some employees. Bob Anderson, Boise public affairs manager, said yesterday that employees had been recently notified of the changing schedules. “There […]
Paige Desmond When Ian Crowe of Kenora went snowboarding with a friend, he thought it would be a day of adventure and fun. Little did he know that day would change the rest of his life. “I was just like almost all of you in this room,” Crowe told district […]
Peggy Revell Almost 20 residents were on hand during last night’s Rainy River District School Board meeting to support a presentation calling for the board to respond publicly to questions surrounding the hundreds of thousands of dollars that went missing from Fort Frances High School over a three-year period. The […]
Press Release Speaker’s Bureau Northwest is a volunteer service extended to the elementary and secondary schools in Northwestern Ontario. Co-ordinated locally by the Northwest Training and Adjustment Board (“Passport to Prosperity”), the bureau will be managed through the newly-launched Employer Registry website, an initiative of the Ministry of Education. Registration […]
Marilyn Erwin October proved to be a very busy month for four nurses from Rainy River District who travelled to Thunder Bay. Kristal Vandenbrand and Barb Kyko, both of Rainy River, attended a series of three day-long workshops held on best practices in stroke care. Fort Frances was represented by […]
