Steve Latimer and Sarah Vanderplaats will provide a one-two punch as guest speakers at the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s monthly luncheon this coming Tuesday at the Rainy Lake Hotel. The emphasis of their discussion will be on staffing and training programs offered in the Fort Frances area. Latimer, the […]
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The local public school board’s School Violence Prevention Team recognized district students for their efforts to promote anti-bullying with a ceremony last Wednesday afternoon at Fort Frances High School. While the SVPT held a poster contest for district students the previous two years, this year they asked them to write […]
The Health Services Review Appeal Board ruled yesterday that the Northwestern Health Unit does not have the right to legally make businesses “butt out” in the name of public health, although this power does lie with individual municipalities. A written copy of the decision from the appeal board released yesterday […]
Do you find yourself forgetting things? Well, much of this might be related to stress in the workplace, says the executive director of the Kenora-Rainy River branch of the Alzheimer Society. So Margaret Schonewille is encouraging all area businesses to take it easy for “Stress Down Friday” this Friday (Feb. […]
More tickets are being sold, more prizes and auction items being donated, and more volunteers jumping on board all the time. In short, the Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s annual fundraiser—which this year is in the form of a chair auction and casino on Saturday, Feb. 28 at the Memorial […]
The local Business Improvement Association named the winners of its first “My Special Valentine” contest last week. Entrants—ranging from three-year-old Chad Westover and Grade 8 students at St. Francis School to seniors like Chris Lowe—submitted either poems, artwork, or simply Valentine messages of love to the BIA. Judges Jen O’Reilly […]
The Valley Adult Learning Association will continue to provide workplace training to adults facing “employment barriers” thanks to a $27,900 grant from the Trillium Foundation. The goal of the program is to work closely with adult and local employers to develop employment readiness goals that will best suit the needs […]
The Ministry of Health and Long-term Care has approved 10 temporary beds for Rainycrest Home for the Aged here. This raises the home’s bed capacity from 135 to 145. The announcement will help alleviate the acute care bed usage at Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc., Rainycrest administrator Jill Colquhoun said […]
While it’s still too early to tell how the recent $100 million sponsorship program scandal in Ottawa will affect the Liberal government’s election plans, local riding associations continue to move forward with their preparations. As first reported in last week’s Times, the Thunder Bay-Rainy River riding association for the Conservative […]
The Fort Frances Public Library’s board of directors said it’s all ears when it comes to what the public now has to say in the wake of a recommendation to pursue building a new library here in the next four-five years “We’ve had some people concerned that everything’s final, and […]
After taking a break for several years, the Rainy Lake Multicultural Association staged “Culturama” for the past three summers in a row. But it appears the RLMA will be taking another break from hosting that event—at least for the near future. “There won’t be a ‘Culturama.’ We’re going to be […]
As town council and management work to find ways to trim a $2-million shortfall in the 2004 budget, a special committee of the whole meeting was held Monday afternoon to get councillors’ input on how much of a tax increase may be acceptable to residential taxpayers. But after much discussion, […]
