With the Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau’s annual community Christmas dinner just over two weeks away, organizers now are trying to make sure they’ll have enough food for the popular event. “We’re still very much in need of turkeys, hams, frozen vegetables, and pickles,” Karen Haney, assistant co-ordinator for the Fort […]
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It was another successful year for the “Adopt an Angel” program, run by Family and Children’s Services here to provide Christmas gifts for children in foster care and in voluntary services. Jacquee Loerzel, a family service worker at FACS, said about 95 children from across Rainy River District will receive […]
The special events committee for Riverside Foundation for Health Care is holding its annual “Wonderful Wreath Raffle” this week at La Verendrye Hospital and the Christmas Store. The wreaths will be displayed, and tickets sold, at La Verendrye Hospital on Thursday and Friday from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m., and […]
The $12.5-million Phase IV renovations at La Verendrye hospital here are on schedule, with the first newly-renovated unit—the sterile processing and distribution department—being showcased at an open house Friday afternoon. Department manager Cindy Cole referred to the renovated unit, which is responsible for sterilizing all equipment used in medical procedures […]
Jessica Lovisa is back in the halls of Fort Frances High School, only this time for a five-week student teacher placement. The 22-year-old attends Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, where she has taken a four-year Concurrent Education Program studying chemistry and French. She is teaching three chemistry classes to students […]
FORT FRANCES—While the exact number of surveys turned in still needs to be tallied, it’s clear residents’ responses to the recreation and leisure study of Fort Frances shows the community is very active. “Just taking a quick scan of the responses, some of the interesting things people want to see […]
FORT FRANCES—The public first got a chance to see what options the Ministry of Natural Resources is proposing to deal with a deteriorating dam on the Manitou River (Esox Lake) during a pair of open houses in early September. Now for the past three months, the MNR has been asking […]
FORT FRANCES—The planning has come together for a day-long community summit slated here next month, where the focus will be on issues that will impact the district in the next five years. Now it’s time for those registrations to start coming in, community summit co-ordinator Jim Cumming said Tuesday. “We’ve […]
FORT FRANCES—Community groups across the district will benefit from free use of local public school board facilities after it passed a motion Tuesday night to approve the Community Recreation and Use Agreement with the Ministry of Tourism and Recreation. In the past, the Rainy River District School Board has not […]
As a result of possible cuts to transportation funding, the Northwest Catholic District School Board may have to consider a reduction in busing services. The board first learned back in July that its funding from the Ministry of Education would be cut by 10.7 percent, or about $94,000. In November, […]
Abitibi-Consolidated’s largest single capital project of the year here was completed on time—and on budget at $750,000—last week. The project was the replacement of a problematic electrical device on the winder of the No. 7 paper machine, which had caused the mill several unscheduled machine shutdowns (or “shuts”) over recent […]
The Northwest Catholic District School Board agreed Saturday to send a letter to Education minister Gerard Kennedy, asking him to reconsider cuts to its transportation funding. Local school boards met with ministry representatives Nov. 16 to discuss changes to the province’s transportation funding model. The Catholic board learned it likely […]
