It’s income tax time and the Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau once again is offering a helping hand, with volunteers donating their time to aid low-income families, the disabled, and the elderly prepare their returns. Volunteers underwent a training course, led by Julia Verhoeven of the Canada Revenue Agency, last Wednesday […]
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FORT FRANCES—Several west-end schools and businesses were closed, and about 150 residents evacuated, after an explosion at J.W. Walker School here shortly before 1 a.m. on Thursday. No injuries were reported, but the local Municipal Control Group (MCG) reported at 10:45 a.m. that “there’s extensive damage” to the school as […]
Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. has received its annual infrastructure funding in the amount of $457,239 after the provincial government invested $36 million for upgrades at Ontario hospitals for 2007-08. The funding was allocated from the Health Infrastructure Renewal Fund (HIRF). Although the local health care facilities have been provided […]
There’s nothing like a visit to the American Southwest to drive away the late-winter depression that usually sets in about this time of the year. For a couple of hours, that’s exactly where Border Concert members found themselves transported—thanks to the music of the Santa Cruz River Band. Hailing from […]
The local library is the place to be Wednesday evenings for any local resident interested in any facet of writing. A group of nine writing enthusiasts gets together on a weekly basis from 6:30-9 p.m. to discuss and analyze writing, including both specific authors as well as the various pieces […]
The Northern Lights Credit Union donated $1,600 to the Riverside Foundation for Heath Care on Friday for a new neo-natal transport incubator with a ventilator at La Verendrye Hospital. The money is proceeds from the Northern Lights Credit Union’s “iCare Miles” program, where a percentage of its credit card-holders’ purchases […]
Fresh from franchisee training and eager to start something new, Chris McKinnon officially began his role as the new owner of M&M Meat Shops here Monday morning. “I’m quite excited about it,” said McKinnon, who also owns Skates & Blades. “I went through three weeks of training, plus training at […]
FORT FRANCES—The Namakan River hydro development project being proposed by the Ojibway Power and Energy Group (OPEG) will be vital to Lac La Croix First Nation in the future, Chief Leon Jourdain said during an open house here last Thursday night. Dozens of people came out for the session at […]
FORT FRANCES—A Youth Health and Wellness Conference, presented by Gizhewaadiziwin Health Access Centre and the Métis Nation of Ontario Health Branch Services, is being planned for March 27-28. Interested youth are encouraged to register as soon as possible. The free two-day workshop, which will be held at La Place Rendez-Vous […]
Having met Monday for the first time in 2008, the “Fun in the Sun” committee already is hard at work planning for this year’s Canada Day celebrations. Organizers are looking for new blood—and new fundraising ideas. “We’d had some meetings in the fall, but we start kicking it off around […]
FORT FRANCES—Called the “storm of the century” by the media at the time, the ice storm that hit eastern Ontario in January, 1998 left more than 1.2 million people without power. Now imagine if that happened here. That notion was the basis of an emergency exercise conducted by local agencies, […]
FORT FRANCES—Benjamin Marr, the infant son of local couple Dave and Jennifer Marr, is one step closer to being able to come home from the hospital after he was moved Saturday from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to a more intermediate stage of hospitalization called T1. Benjamin was born prematurely […]
