With only a couple of more days left for Christmas shopping, some downtown merchants are reporting good to excellent business this holiday season. “Busy” is the key word according to Bob Green of Green’s Countrywide Furniture and Appliances, who talked a little about the holiday shopping season this morning at […]
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Although Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s annual fundraiser isn’t slated until Feb. 28, tickets for the popular Campbell’s Cabins raffle, which will be drawn at that event, already are on sale. “They make a perfect stockingstuffer,” said Foundation director Teresa Hazel. The tickets, which cost $5 each, give you a […]
The mayor and town councillors met with Blair Smith of BDO Dunwoody to discuss the 2003 corporate audit yesterday during a special in-camera meeting of the committee of the whole. But whatever the recommendations in the audit may be, the public won’t be privy to them until the new year, […]
Family and Children Services here is planning to move from its current address at 450 Scott St. to a renovated space in the westernmost portion of the old Fort Frances High School on First Street East in the new year. “Our board has accepted a recommendation from our building committee,” […]
After working without a contract for almost two years, CUPE members at Rainycrest Home for the Aged here now have an agreement. Rainycrest’s board of management ratified the four-year agreement, which is retroactive to Dec. 31, 2001, at a meeting Wednesday. No other details, such as wage or benefit increases, […]
If you didn’t put out your recyclables this week, you’ll now have to wait until the week of Jan. 5-9 to do so as there will be no “blue box” pick-up between Dec. 22 and Jan. 4. This is part of the holiday schedule for curbside pickup as the town […]
Now just a week away, the Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau’s annual community Christmas dinner is shaping up well, organizers said. But some more donations are needed if they are to provide for the more than 200 people they’re expecting Dec. 25 at Knox United Church. “We’re still short on hams. […]
It looks like Dr. Pete Sarsfield won’t exactly get what he wanted for Christmas this year. The Northwestern health Unit has not received any word as to whether its stance on banning smoking in public places will be recognized by the province. “We haven’t heard anything,” the CEO and medical […]
Town council said Monday it would decide by Feb. 29 whether or not it would sign a new three-year deal with the Rainy River Future Development Corp. And while Mayor Dan Onichuk said “all factors need to be weighed” before any decisions are made as the town works on its […]
Council made its nominations for the Rainy River District Municipal Association (RRDMA) boards at Monday night’s meeting. Mayor Dan Onichuk was nominated for president of the RRDMA while Tannis Drysdale was nominated for vice-president. These are one-year terms. Mayor Onichuk also was appointed as the Fort Frances rep on the […]
Local MP Robert Nault was shut out of Paul Martin’s cabinet last week as the new prime minister made sweeping changes to the line-up, but vowed he would run again here in the next election despite the setback. “My priority has always been to serve the constituents of Kenora-Rainy River […]
The Northwestern Health Unit’s infant hearing program received a $35,000 donation from the Lions Club on Monday to help buy new screening equipment. The Lions 5M International Hearing Foundation presented the cheque to the health unit to purchase seven tympanometers for the Kenora-Rainy River district. The new machine is a […]
