Ten adventurous students from Rainy River District will be heading out to Costa Rica in March—but this trip down south is no holiday. With the assistance of Canada World Youth, an organization that helps organize informal educational trips for young people around the world, the students will spend 13 days […]
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A five-year project to improve Northwestern Ontario’s access to the latest technology in telecommunications was completed last month—and the region already has begun reaping the benefits, said project manager Jim Green. “Our project started out by recognizing there was no competitive broadband in the region,” he explained. “The objective was […]
What do the new Wal-Mart store (which opens tomorrow), Canadian Tire, and other Fort Frances businesses along King’s Highway west of McIrvine Road all have in common? They’re all located on land that once belonged to the Biddeson family—one of the town’s founding families. Bruce Biddeson, now in his 90th […]
Council received the 2004 operating and capital forecast report last night—a document showing a projected operating shortfall of $2,792,030, which translates into a 67.5 percent residential tax increase if town council and management don’t make some serious changes in the near future. “This package is essentially the beginning of a […]
As council works to establish the 2004 budget, Fort Frances appears to be on hard times—with a possible residential tax increase of 67.5 percent in the year ahead if council doesn’t make cuts and hike fees, Mayor Dan Onichuk warned this morning. Details of what the town is up against […]
After first opening the doors to “David’s Deli” back in May, 2002, the Joy of Life Fellowship Church here has tried to see that no one goes hungry for at least a few days each week. And if the number of people who come out for the free meal are […]
While the Northwestern Health Unit had hoped it would find out by mid-January if the provincial Health Services Review Appeal Board had decided in favour of its stance on banning smoking in all enclosed public places, it looks like it will have to wait a little longer. “The last thing […]
It wasn’t quite a wake, but the atmosphere at the Little Beaver Snow Park definitely was not upbeat when the Sunset Country Snowmobile Club met there last week. Apart from the board of directors and about a dozen club members, virtually no one from the public attended the meeting, which […]
With word the Kiwanis skate park committee has begun making the big push for its new brick fundraiser campaign, in hopes of seeing a shovel in the ground this spring, Fort Frances Mayor Dan Onichuk said he’s definitely in favour of the project. “I think it’s already off the ground. […]
The latest survey by the Ministry of Natural Resources indicates a decline in the moose population in the eastern end of Rainy River District by roughly 40 percent since the last one in 2000. Between Jan. 3-8, the MNR conducted an aerial survey of Wildlife Management Unit 11A, which extends […]
Are you ever really going to roll all those pennies in the change dish on your dresser? Or from that ever-filling jar on top of the fridge? Well, the local Alzheimer Society is hoping families find a better use for those copper coins than just taking up space when its […]
Pilots of Mesaba Airlines will begin voting this Friday on the tentative contract agreement they reached with their employers earlier this moth, with the final results expected at the end of the month. “It is an informational period right now,” said Kris Pierson, spokesperson for the Air Line Pilots Association […]
