Anticipating another busy year ahead promoting Fort Frances and its business community, the local Chamber of Commerce is requesting $7,500 as its fee-for-service in the 2008 municipal budget. “The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce continues to focus direction on promoting our area and the business community through increased marketing initiatives,” […]
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The business retention and expansion survey launched by the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce back in March has seen a delay over the summer, but will get back into gear this fall once the Chamber hires a new community development intern. “We’ve just recently received notification [from the Northern Ontario […]
“The quality of our forest management system is second-to-none.” In response to a Greenpeace report issued last month criticizing forest companies and their customers for making and purchasing products using fibre harvested from the Canadian boreal forest, Abitibi-Consolidated regional manager Doug Murray set the record straight to town council Monday […]
Country artists The Wilkinsons will hit the Townshend Theatre stage here tomorrow night (Sept. 20) as the first performance of the 2007-08 “tour de Fort” season. Hailing from Belleville, Ont., the father, son, and daughter trio have released five albums, with several well-known singles including “26 Cents” and “Jimmy’s Got […]
To further their efforts to prevent tragedies in the area, the Rainy River District Substance Abuse Prevention Team, and program co-ordinator Hugh Dennis, have a new project for the fall. They will be focusing on distributing the pamphlet “Families Rule,” a family policy aimed to open dialogue between parents and […]
Northern Ontario’s tourism front is set to undergo a radical image change over the next five years, led regionally with an infusion of $1 million to promote Northwestern Ontario in the U.S. Midwest. “It is $1 million that we’ve never seen before. I think it’s a remarkable step in the […]
Town council gave the thumbs up to three of four requests from the Fort Frances Jr. Sabres hockey team after approving a report from the Community Services executive committee at last night’s regular meeting. The Sabres will pay the youth resident rate for ice rentals (as opposed to the non-resident […]
Sorority marking 60 years Beta Sigma Phi sorority will begin its new season with a celebration of 60 years in Fort Frances. Alice Solomon and Edna Avis brought their enthusiasm for this organization here in 1947 and for the past 60 years, Beta Sigma Phi has been a very large […]
FORT FRANCES—Fort Frances town council accepted an official letter of resignation from Coun. Tannis Drysdale, with appreciation for service, at Monday night’s regular meeting. Mayor Roy Avis said he received the letter, which was dated Sept. 17, “with regret.” “Tannis and I were on council for four years, and I […]
Town council will be all ears for suggestions and comments from residents as to what they feel are the most important municipal services and projects—and thus should be considered during the 2008 budget process—at a public meeting tonight at 6:20 p.m. at the Civic Centre. As of Friday, Fort Frances […]
The town is directing trucks coming through Fort Frances to continue using Second Street East to help ease downtown traffic flow problems resulting from road construction. While the town previously said the re-routing would be in effect until Monday (Sept. 17), Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown reported late this […]
District residents came through once again for the Canadian Blood Services donor clinic at Fort High yesterday and Wednesday. “We had an amazing turnout,” CBS community development co-ordinator Harvey Heather said this morning. “We had 412 donors over the two days, 345 units, which is about 43 more [units] than […]
