With the ninth-annual Fort Frances Times Great Chili Cook-off tentatively scheduled for Friday, Sept. 17, organizers are looking for a few good chefs. This year’s organizer, Gabe Glueheisen, said yesterday she’s in the process of contacting chili teams that expressed interest last year in participating again. “We’ve had confirmation from […]
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Construction on the $12.5-million Phase IV project at La Verendrye Hospital here is well on schedule, Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. reported this week. Project manager Ed Cousineau has said the new addition to the south of the existing structure has been erected and the roof is expected to be […]
Thanks to some help from the public, police nabbed a Couchiching First Nation man for impaired driving, among other charges, on Tuesday afternoon. Around 2:30 p.m. that day, Fort Frances OPP officers received a phone call from a concerned citizen reporting that a southbound vehicle on Highway 71 was being […]
Bell Canada, in partnership with Pwi-di-goo-zing Ne-yaa-zhing Advisory Services here, is in the process of installing digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet lines in Rainy River District, with the service expected to be up and running this fall. “Work has absolutely begun,” Bell spokeswoman Nessa Prendergast said Wednesday. “The expected timeline […]
Alicia Delbridge of Fort Frances is showing signs of gradual improvement in a Calgary hospital, where she has been since Aug. 6 after being stricken with a mysterious, potentially-fatal heart condition, her father said in an e-mail Wednesday. The one-year-old was on a respirator for nearly two weeks before doctors […]
A new physiotherapy clinic is set to open here next month by a former resident. Jeff Wright, son of Robin and Janice, recently returned to the area from London, Ont. to follow his dream of opening his own clinic here in town. “I’m nervous and excited all in one,” he […]
With the annual Terry Fox Run coming up next month, local volunteers already have been working hard and keeping focused on promoting and raising money for the fundraiser. Vanessa Hebert, executive director of the Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau, said volunteers have been stationed at Canada Safeway, Wal-Mart, and Canadian Tire […]
Blood donation isn’t just for car accident victims and organ transplants. It’s for people who have cancer. Melanie Mathieson, 36, of Fort Frances knows all about it—and she wants to increase public awareness about the value of being a blood donor. She was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma in February and […]
After noticeable highs and lows each year since 2001, water levels on Rainy and Namakan lakes are right where they should be this summer, the International Rainy Lake Board of Control reported at its annual public meeting here Tuesday night. “The main message we want to get across is how […]
Anyone with questions or concerns regarding the regulation of Namakan and Rainy Lake, or the water quality on the Rainy River, is invited to the joint annual public meeting of the International Rainy Lake Board of Control and the International Rainy River Water Pollution Board here tonight. The meeting is […]
Alicia Delbridge of Fort Frances still is breathing on her own after being taken off a ventilator last Wednesday, her father, Cory, wrote in an e-mail yesterday. The one-year-old fell critically ill back on Aug. 6 while visiting relatives with her family in Calgary, but has shown signs of improvement […]
One hundred additional Ontario FireRangers, including 61 from Northwestern Ontario, headed for British Columbia on Saturday to join 209 other personnel already there assisting in the forest firefighting effort, the Ministry of Natural Resources reported this morning. More than 50 new fires were reported in British Columbia on Friday, which […]
