Staff with Riverside Community Counselling Services spent their first full day of work in their new location at the old St. Mary’s parish rectory on Monday, joining the similarly relocated Valley Diabetes Education Centre there. “It’s a little bit bigger than we where were,” director Jon Thompson said of the […]
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With the new year now upon us, municipal councils across the district are preparing to take on new issues and, in most cases, continue with old ones. With the exception of Morley, all the other councils have been sworn in and held their inaugural sessions. Morley will be holding its […]
With word yesterday that Ontario’s bar and pub owners are seeking $500 million in compensation from the province if a province-wide smoking ban is implemented, at least one local bar owner is worried about the situation here, too. “I hope the province considers exempting bars,” said Larry Syrovy, owner of […]
The “chem-free” grad committee once again is looking for parents to help organize the annual event so this year’s Fort High graduating class can celebrate their accomplishments in a safe and sober environment. “We have been meeting with the students at school before Christmas, but this will be the first […]
While nominations forms for the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s annual business awards normally are made available in January, that won’t be the case this year, Chamber co-ordinator Dawn Booth on Monday. “We’ve decided to postpone it [the business awards banquet] to coincide with Small Business Week, which is usually […]
Sub-zero temperatures and a brisk wind chill were not enough to prevent a record turnout of jumpers at the third-annual “Polar Plunge” outside La Place Rendez-Vous on New Year’s Day. Twenty-seven hardy souls doffed their winter duds for a quick dip into Sand Bay and, in so doing, raised nearly […]
Town residents should be putting out both their garbage and “blue boxes” this week as the new bi-weekly curbside pick-up schedule is now in effect. Residents should have received the new garbage/recycling schedules in their mailboxes over the past few weeks as these were supposed to be delivered by the […]
A house on the 600 block of Church Street caught fire yesterday after the owner had used a blowtorch to thaw a frozen water pipe. Fort Frances Fire Chief Steve Richardson said firefighters responded to a call made by a passer- by at 3:23 p.m. to find the blaze—which began […]
It seems the drop in the thermometer last month caused a spike in travel plans among local residents— particularly for destinations south. “We’ve been extremely busy,” said Pat Herr, manager of International Travel Services here. “There are a lot of people travelling this year,” agreed Wendy Spottiswood, owner of Border […]
Those looking for the Valley Diabetes Education Centre and Riverside Community Counselling Services won’t find them where they were before the Christmas holidays as both have relocated to new digs. The pair of services now are located at 206 Victoria Ave.—the old St. Mary’s parish rectory— across from the ambulance […]
Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown said the recent announcement by the province to start the Waste Diversion Ontario Blue Box Program in February is clearly a boon for the town’s recycling activity. But as to how much of a cash infusion it will amount to, that won’t be clear […]
Christmas came early for Vanessa Hebert this year as a flood of donations for the annual community dinner poured in late last week. “We were starting to worry,” Hebert, the executive director of the Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau, admitted Monday. “But I don’t know why we ever did—the community always […]
