Town council agreed to the terms of reference for the Traffic Safety Committee, as well as an ad hoc sub-committee to address public transportation, at Monday night’s meeting. A follow-up to discussions at the March 10 council meeting, Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown recommended the sub-committee: •consist of two […]
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Fort Frances OPP will be offering the D.A.R.E. program at the Grade 3 level as a pilot project beginning next month to see how young students respond to it. The Drug Abuse Resistance Education program currently is offered at the Grade 6 and Grade 10 levels. “We teach them how […]
While they are not part and parcel of the proposed user fee schedule town council gave first and second reading to Monday night, “bag tags” for residential garbage pick-up are coming down the pipeline—possibly by May 31. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown said Monday that while “bag tags” will […]
While the 2004 user fee schedule went through first and second readings last night, with the likelihood council will pass it March 31, an amendment will mean local swim clubs won’t be seeing the 100 percent hike they thought they were. Council decided to make the amendment last night after […]
Two former mayors won the Liberal nominations in the two new Northwestern Ontario ridings of Thunder Bay-Rainy River and Kenora over the weekend. Former Thunder Bay mayor Ken Boshcoff beat out Don Paterson for the Liberal nomination in Thunder Bay-Rainy River what the party is calling “a very close race.”^While […]
Council will vote tonight on whether to adopt a new user fee schedule that will account for about $180,000 in extra revenue to help cover the town’s 2004 budget deficit. Coun. Rick Wiedenhoeft said a “tremendous amount” of work by council and management has gone into revising the user fee […]
Council will vote Monday night on whether to adopt a new user fee schedule that will account for about $180,000 in extra revenue to help cover the town’s 2004 budget deficit. Coun. Rick Wiedenhoeft said a “tremendous amount” of work by council and management has gone into revising the user […]
After council made more cuts— and some adjustments to tax ratios—at a committee of the whole meeting yesterday, it looks as if town residents may be facing a tax increase of 18-20 percent for 2004. “We are getting down about as far as we can get without shutting facilities down,” […]
Marie Rübsteck, general manager of the Canadian Practice Firms Network, will visit Envision North—the practice firm in Fort Frances—this Monday and Tuesday (March 22-23). Rübsteck has been with the CPFN since its founding in 1998. She also is the CPFN representative for the European Practice Firm Network (EUROPEN). From 2000-03, […]
After council made more cuts—and some adjustments to tax ratios—at a committee of the whole meeting Thursday, it looks as if town residents may be facing a tax increase of 18-20 percent for 2004. “We are getting down about as far as we can get without shutting facilities down,” Coun. […]
The Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board last night passed a resolution to pay a subsidy for April to the Fort Frances Native Urban Wahkaihganun Corp. after receiving assurance from the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing that the program’s economic difficulties have improved. DSSAB recently received a letter […]
The United Native Friendship Centre has purchased the Calvary Tabernacle Church on Butler Avenue and will be using the property to house the “Aboriginal Head Start” program. The UNFC took possession Friday, and is looking forward to getting everything ready to start in September. The program is for children up […]
