FORT FRANCES—Billed as an opportunity to bring communities, leaders, stakeholders, and organizations together to share ideas, resources, and knowledge to improve employment services, “The Gathering” saw more than 100 delegates turn out Monday for the day-long conference at the Couchiching Bingo Hall. And Northern Community Development Services, which organized the […]
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FORT FRANCES—Groups of Grade 10 students from the Civics class at Fort Frances High School participated in the “Prevent Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth” (P.A.R.T.Y.) program at La Verendrye Hospital here last Wednesday and Friday. The newly-implemented program focuses on injury prevention and making smart choices, and showed the […]
FORT FRANCES—While reusable shopping bags are becoming more common, most of them are not as environmentally-friendly as people may think—often being made from recycled plastic and only good for an estimated 10 uses before they have to be thrown away. But Mark McKelvie, who has worked at Upholstery Works in […]
A meeting was held at the Emo Inn last Wednesday morning on plans for a memorial to commemorate the victims of the Dance fire in conjunction with its 70th anniversary next Oct. 10. The deadly blaze, which happened on Thanksgiving Day back in 1938, claimed the lives of 12 members […]
While last week the town announced both lanes of vehicular traffic through the Portage Avenue underpass would be closed from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. today through Friday, the removal of the steel sheet pilings has been put on hold. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown told council last night that the […]
The Muskie boys’ hockey team didn’t let Dryden get in the way of their scoring spree, crushing the Eagles 8-2 in NorWOSSA action here Friday night. Fort High (4-0) already is on a roll this season, winning every game by at least five goals, including their first of the campaign […]
Town council will vote tonight on a bylaw to approve an agreement with the Ministry of Natural Resources with respect to funding under the “Bear Wise” community funding program. The agreement will see the town get $17,000 from the province to install 12 more bear-proof garbage containers in town parks […]
For the first time in about a decade, there will be an election to decide who sits on the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s board of directors for the coming year. “We’ve had a great response to people putting their names forward,” Chamber manager Dawn Booth said yesterday, noting 14 […]
The Portage Avenue underpass will be closed next Tuesday through Friday (Nov. 27-30) from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. each day so steel sheet pilings can be removed from the construction site there. The use of heavy equipment and the size of the pilings to be removed (40 feet in length) necessitate […]
The Fort Frances Network Services has entered into an agreement to sell its interest in the Norwest Mobility network to TBayTel. The sole shareholder—the Town of Fort Frances, represented by council—passed a resolution last Tuesday (Nov. 13) to pursue the sale of its interest in the business venture after careful […]
The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce, in its continuing effort to improve the economic, civic, and social well-being of the district, is pleased to announce Cassandra Parise as its new community development officer. Parise’s main responsibility with the Chamber will be the Business Retention and Expansion (BR&E) project. As previously […]
A group of Grade 10 students from Fort Frances High School will be educated on injury prevention tomorrow through the “Prevent Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth” (P.A.R.T.Y.) program. The Rainy River District Substance Abuse Prevention Team, along with its partners, participated in a two-day workshop earlier this year to […]
