With its monthly Recognition of Excellence Award, the Rainy River District School Board saluted staff and students at J. W. Walker School during its regular meeting here Tuesday night for their efforts to make the school a greener place. Most notably recognized was Grade 2/3 teacher Angela Petsnick, whose leadership […]
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After both running in last November’s municipal election, former councillor Todd Hamilton and Ken Perry will be on the ballot for the Jan. 14 byelection for a seat on Fort Frances town council. And with less than a month and-a-half to go before election day, both candidates are making it […]
About 100 unionized paperworkers will meet in Montreal this week to develop a co-ordinated plan of action following AbitibiBowater’s recently-announced mill closures and plans to reopen negotiated collective agreements. CEP has organized the Dec. 5-6 meeting, at the Delta Hotel in Montreal, to bring together 35 CEP AbitibiBowater locals from […]
Since students use many paper products daily that can be recycled along with plastic bottles and aluminum cans, staff and students of J.W. Walker School here have pledged to be “friends of the Earth” through recycling, composting, and taking action against pollution. Tonight, the Rainy River District School Board will […]
With the deadline for candidates to file their nomination papers to run in the Jan. 14 byelection for town council having elapsed on Friday, only two people—Todd Hamilton and Ken Perry—will be on the ballot. Perry finished seventh in last November’s municipal election while Hamilton, a former councillor, was eighth. […]
The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce has started a campaign using the motto “Keep your town in business, by keeping your business in town” to encourage area residents to keep their Christmas spending local. The Chamber has sent out posters to its members to hang in their store windows, staff […]
The Fort Frances Museum will be hosting Marilyn McIntosh, Northwestern consultant with the Ontario Arts Council, this Wednesday and Thursday (Dec. 5-6). She will be meeting with artists and arts organizations to discuss draft OAC applications and/or questions about grant eligibility, the grant application process, deadlines, support material, how to […]
MONTREAL—The fears of AbitibiBowater Inc. employees have come true after the newly-merged company announced yesterday it will embark on a sweeping restructuring of its pulp and paper operations affecting 2,600 jobs in Canada and the United States. In addition to closing or idling more than half-a-dozen mills in Quebec, New […]
Canada Safeway staff chose Fort Frances youth William Moody Jr. as the focus of their 2007-08 “We Care” campaign. Moody suffers from spina bifida and uses a wheelchair to get around, and fundraising efforts will go towards buying a lift for Moody’s home to better allow him to go up […]
With F.H. Huffman School one of three schools designated as “prohibitive to repair” (PTR), the Rainy River District School Board is holding an Accommodation Review Committee meeting there Monday evening and the public is invited to attend. “The board is looking at the possibility of consolidating Huffman, which would mean […]
As a follow-up to a letter of appeal sent out to 7,500 district residents two weeks ago, Capt. Angel Sandoval is reminding district residents that the local Salvation Army still is looking for sponsors for both the “Sponsor a Family” and “Adopt a Family” programs—and it’s not too late to […]
The Fort Frances Power Corp. is delighted that more than 800 residential customers reduced their electricity consumed by 10 percent this July and August, and received a credit by qualifying for the “Summer Savings” program. Roughly 840 residential customers received a credit on their account this week calculated at 10 […]
