Press Release Robert van Oort, chair of the Northwest Catholic District School Board, recently was appointed president of the Thunder Bay Diocesan Catholic School Trustees Association. His first order of business will be to facilitate the organization of the 47th-annual Thunder Bay Diocesan conference to be held next fall. Trustees […]
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Paige Desmond The Fort Frances Tribal Area Health Services Inc.’s Counselling Unit will offer a program in the New Year aimed at teaching anger management skills. According to facilitator David Beaulieau, district residents aged 16 and up can attend the free sessions, which will take place each Wednesday from 6:30-8 […]
Press Release Applications are being accepted for the third year of Ontario’s Species at Risk Stewardship Fund, which supports volunteer efforts to protect and restore species at risk and their habitats across the province. The four-year Species at Risk Stewardship Fund is part of the Ministry of Natural Resources’ stewardship-first […]
Dave Ogilvie The province has been in the business of funding various student nutrition programs for more than a decade. In 2005, however, the Ministry of Children and Youth Services instituted a new regional model to support the Ontario Student Nutrition Program (OSNP). This model provides an annual amount of $8.5 million […]
Mitch Calvert If you drink tea for health reasons, you probably drink green tea. But research shows drinking white tea can be even more beneficial. White tea is said to inhibit oxidation of LDL (low density lipoproteins), which are known as bad cholesterol when compared to HDL (high density lipoproteins). […]
Press Release AbitibiBowater has been ranked the leading forest products company in Canada in the 2008 Climate Disclosure Leadership Index, with respect to disclosure of carbon emissions. AbitibiBowater is included in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) report, which lists top companies demonstrating best-in-class disclosure practices in climate change strategy, as […]
Duane Hicks Emergency Management Ontario will be conducting a major emergency response exercise Nov. 16-23 across Northwestern Ontario—and Fort Frances is to be one of more than 25 municipalities and three First Nations participating. Called “Trillium Response 2008,” the exercise is based on each municipality’s annual requirement to conduct an […]
Peggy Revell As another Remembrance Day marked the sacrifices made by our country’s war veterans, a new generation of Canadians has become a part of this story. This includes Fort Frances native Colin LeBlanc, who recently returned to Northwestern Ontario after serving in Afghanistan for seven months. Master/Bdr LeBlanc was […]
Duane Hicks St. Francis student McKenna Begin and J.W. Walker student Danielle Hammond, both winners of an essay contest held in conjunction with Local Government Week (Oct. 19-25), got the chance Monday night to tell council what they would do if they were mayor of Fort Frances. Begin said “she […]
Staff Linda Hamilton, the 21st “Citizen of the Year” for Fort Frances, formally will be honoured Nov. 21 at the town’s annual appreciation, recognition, retiree, and long-service dinner at La Place Rendez-Vous. Town council approved the recommendation to name her as “Citizen of the Year 2009” at Monday night’s meeting. […]
Peggy Revell The Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board is inviting the public to check out its newly-renovated office at 450 Scott St. during an open house slated for this Friday (Nov. 14) from 1-4 p.m. “Anyone who’s ever been curious, now’s the chance to come and see it,” […]
Duane Hicks After first earning the honour in 2007, 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. “We did it,” enthused RRVSC administrative co-ordinator Grace Silander, who attended the conference with RRVSC […]
