The Rainy River District School Board was to recognize the efforts of staff at two of its schools to improve boys’ success in literacy at its regular monthly meeting Tuesday night. The new joint initiative between Robert Moore and Donald Young schools will be a three-year project focused around a […]
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While the situation is temporarily cooling off a little thanks to some recent rain, the Ministry of Natural Resources fire season has been busy since officially starting April 1. Monday saw three new fires (two in Nipigon District and one in Thunder Bay District), making for five active ones in […]
George Chuvalo, the former Canadian heavyweight boxing champion, will be at Couchiching on Wednesday to give a free public presentation about drug abuse. Chuvalo speaks from personal experience, having lost three sons and his wife as a result of substance abuse. The heavyweight champ from 1958-79, Chuvalo now travels extensively, […]
Sporting more than 60 exhibitors, demonstrations, and chances to win prizes, the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce drew a large crowd to its annual home and leisure show on Friday and Saturday at the Memorial Sports Centre. “I feel it was pretty successful,” Chamber president Gary Rogozinski said Monday morning. […]
Something new to this year’s “Relay for Life,” organizers are looking for area youth to sing at the fundraiser’s opening ceremonies on June 16 here. Choral directors Diane Maxey and Louise Kahler are encouraging boys and girls who can sing to come to the first practice on Saturday, May 6 […]
With extensive renovations slated to start this summer, Fort Frances Museum staff are working hard to move everything out of the building by June 1. “We’re clearing the entire place out,” museum superintendent Pam Hawley noted Thursday, adding all of the artifacts, displays, and more are being packed up and […]
Canadian Blood Services was able to meet its target for its two-day blood donor clinic at Fort Frances High School that wrapped up last night. The final tally showed 368 donors came out, with 323 units of blood collected. The goal had been to collect 330 units. Some 210 donors […]
Sporting about 70 exhibitors, as well as demonstrations and chances to win prizes, the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce has lined up lots to do at its annual home and leisure show Friday and Saturday at the Memorial Sports Centre. “We are jam-packed full,” Chamber manager Dawn Booth said Wednesday. […]
The two-day Canadian Blood Services donor clinic at Fort Frances High School is off to a good start, with a total of 158 donors showing up Wednesday to give the “gift of life.” “We had 158 donors [Wednesday] and 138 units [donated], which was exactly what we [were] hoping for,” […]
The Town of Fort Frances will be entering into a new agreement with the Ministry of Natural Resources for shoreline property along the La Verendrye Parkway. Town CAO Mark McCaig noted yesterday the issue of the beach management with the MNR had been unresolved since the last agreement’s expiration in […]
Recommendations in the Downtown Core Committee report will affect more than just Scott Street and the surrounding area, and individuals and groups alike should come out to the public meeting slated for June 13. This was message Patti-Jo Reid, chair of the local Economic Development Advisory Committee and Downtown Core […]
The town no longer will initiate local improvement projects and stick residents with the bill after council opted Monday night to approved revisions to the policy. As a follow-up to a directive from council last summer, municipal planner Faye Flatt presented council with a revised local improvement policy. “There has […]
