With news the Fort Frances Bingo Hall will be closing its doors Dec. 31, the charitable groups which have been running fundraiser bingos there for years will suffer if an alternative can’t be found. “It’s going to affect us greatly. I don’t know how we’re going to meet our budgets,” […]
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The chairwoman of the Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board strenuously declined a request from Fort Frances town council that she and CAO Donna Dittaro appear before it to explain the current situation with the board’s new building whose renovations are over-budget. Val Pizey, who also is mayor of […]
From one extreme to the next. That’s what Kim Jo Bliss, technician at the agricultural research station in Emo, has experienced the last two years—with 2005 being extremely wet and this past summer resulting in drought conditions. “It’s been a long time since we could say ‘Wow, what a dry […]
The Town of Fort Frances saluted 2006 “Citizen of the Year” June Keddie, as well as retirees and employees who have reached 25 years of service, at its annual appreciation dinner Friday night at La Place Rendez-Vous. As she was greeted on stage by 1994 “Citizen of the Year” Mark […]
Take charge of your future with “Summer Company,” an Ontario government program for full-time students aged 15-29. The program provides students with hands-on business experience, training and mentoring, and awards of up to $3,000 to help start their own summer business. To be eligible for the experience, students must: •have […]
Don’t know what to get for that person who has everything? How about treating them to a gourmet meal—all in the name of a charitable cause. Tickets are available for the local Alzheimer Society’s second-annual “Chefs’ Charitable Dinner and Auction,” which is slated for Sunday, Jan. 21 at the Fort […]
Bowater Canadian Forest Products Inc. announced yesterday the indefinite shutdown of its Ignace sawmill operation. This shutdown took effect yesterday and will impact 29 direct Bowater employees and 20 contractor ones. This decision is the direct result of lumber quotas imposed upon Bowater’s Ontario operations. These quotas are the result […]
Fort Frances council passed a motion Monday night to name citizen appointees to various town committees for the term running Dec. 1, 2006-Nov. 30, 2010. The various committees, including the council reps previously named at the Dec. 4 inaugural meeting, are: •Accessibility Advisory Committee—Jennifer Cawston; •Children’s Complex Advisory Committee—Debbie Bazylewski, […]
An award-winning First Nations children’s author will be in town this Saturday (Dec. 23) for a book signing from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. And while he’s not from Rainy River District originally, he does have a local connection. Larry Loyie is the author of three plays, some short stories, and three […]
Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP Ken Boshcoff attended last night’s town council meeting to offer greetings to the newly-elected mayor and councillors. “I came to offer this council my co-operation to work with you on those items which our orders of government may find some measure of an attempt to revitalize […]
After only re-opening at its new location on McIrvine Road in July, the Fort Frances Bingo Hall will be closing its doors at the end of the year. Linda Larocque, vice-president of the Fort Frances Bingo Association, said a letter was sent out to Bingo hall employees and the local […]
With the Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau’s 19th-annual community Christmas dinner now only a week away, organizers have been bowled over with the generosity of local individuals and businesses. “Things are coming along really well,” Diane Maxey, a community dinner committee member, said Friday. “We could probably just need to get […]
