Peggy Revell FORT FRANCES—District residents will have the chance to check out what type of home-based businesses are in the area thanks to an expo planned for Friday, Oct. 17 at the Adventure Inn here. “I think [people] are going to be surprised at some of the businesses that are […]
Local News
Press Release The Fort Frances Tribal Area Chiefs are pleased to have been awarded a contract by the Ministry of Children and Youth Services to operate the new 12-bed youth justice facility now being constructed in Fort Frances. The facility is unique as it is an aboriginal-specific youth justice secure […]
Press Release Bill Michl, like everyone else in the district, would like to see big change. What’s different is the type of “change” Michl is looking for. You see, Michl is raising funds for his “Joints in Motion” marathon that will take place next July in Australia and the “big […]
Staff Associates of St. Marguerite du Ville is holding its annual winter coat drive. They want clean, used winter coats in good condition for men, women, and children to be able to give away to the needy. Those who want to donate coats can drop them off on Tuesday, Oct. […]
Peggy Revell The Rainy River District School Board has chosen Evans Bertrand Hill Wheeler Architecture Inc. as the architect and designer for the new Robert Moore School here. “We’re doing all the preliminary stuff, the drawings and whatnot, now. We’re just starting all that,” said Raymond Roy, the board’s manager […]
Staff With Christmas less than three months, “Operation Christmas Child,” the annual shoebox campaign, is underway. The campaign, conducted by Samaritan’s Purse, sends shoeboxes full of small gifts to children in countries ravaged by war, famine, and natural disasters. Area churches, schools, and residents all have contributed to the success […]
Press Release For 60 years, the Northwestern Health Unit has been delivering public health programs and services. This month, to celebrate its 60th anniversary, the health unit is providing all elementary schools in the region with a set of storybooks. The Eagle Books are intended to help teach reading and […]
Peggy Revell Local speech pathologist Ann Anderson soon will be on her way to the other side of the world after being selected by the Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists to be part of a delegation heading to China at the end of the month. Anderson, who works […]
Press Release A total of 135 consumers shared their thoughts and opinions on everything from their satisfaction with customer service to store hours to what they would like to see added to the local business community in the first-ever Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce consumer survey, which ran from Aug. […]
Press Release Screening saves lives. Many studies have shown that regular mammograms for women aged 50-69 reduce deaths from breast cancer by up to a third. Close to 63 percent of Ontario women are being screened for mammograms every two years, but we need to do better. In an interview […]
Nancy Daley Fulton If you become physically ill, you would go to a doctor. You would be diagnosed, treated, and life would go on as usual or with modifications. You likely would talk to your family, friends, and co-workers about it. When people are diagnosed with a mental illness, however, […]
Paige Desmond Atikokan Crisis Centre executive director Donna Kroocmo says the issue most affecting district women is poverty, yet when interviewed and asked about women’s issues, none of the candidates in the Thunder Bay-Rainy River riding touched on this point. According to Kroocmo, poverty or the risk of it is […]
