Push, shove, yell. Shove, yell, push. Trip. Though not quite the beating one would have endured from Hurricane Isabel or Juan last month, dealing with the throng of media that blew into Fort Frances last Thursday to cover NDP leader and local MPP Howard Hampton on election night is as […]
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In a fight that was tougher than winning the Kenora-Rainy River riding, local MPP and NDP leader Howard Hampton and his family fought back tears while giving a heartfelt, emotional speech to supporters here Thursday night at La Place Rendez-Vous. They were tears of joy and sorrow all at once. […]
The final list of candidates for the upcoming municipal elections is now complete. In the Township of Dawson, incumbent Reeve John Amundsen has been acclaimed for another term while five candidates are vying for the four seats on council. Incumbents Linda Armstrong, Alphonse Langlais, and John Sanderson will face off […]
While she may have captured just 12.6 percent of the votes in Kenora-Rainy River riding in last Thursday’s provincial election, Progressive Conservative candidate Cathe Hoszowski said she hasn’t been discouraged into bowing out of the political arena. “I’m still very interested in politics,” she stressed in an interview yesterday. “When […]
The public got a chance to hear what eight of the 11 people vying for seats on town council next month had to say Monday night at the Civic Centre when they answered the question: “As councillor for the Town of Fort Frances, what is your vision of economic prosperity […]
In a last-minute attachment to the agenda of the Rainy River District School Board’s regular monthly meeting here Tuesday night, the board announced it had reached an agreement to extend its lease with Confederation College. “We have successfully completed our negotiations regarding the lease with Confederation College,” reported Laura Mills, […]
The 15-tonne weight restriction in effect for the bridge at Sioux Narrows not only has created headaches for district businesses and farmers that depend on trucks to deliver their goods, it also raises some troubling questions for the Ministry of Transportation. For instance, what is to become of the old […]
The party atmosphere slowly building at La Place Rendez-Vous here last Thursday night as NDP supporters awaited election results quickly was replaced by the quiet murmur of people asking “what went wrong” as the tallies became known. And while a cheer erupted when it was projected that local MPP and […]
There was a mass walk-out of students in Fort Frances yesterday morning, but it wasn’t your typical demonstration. More than 250 students—from senior kindergarten to Grade 6— put down their books and marched, or ran, around the perimeter of the Robert Moore School grounds for 15 minutes in support of […]
A student trustee will be sworn in during tonight’s regular monthly meeting of the Rainy River District School Board, which gets underway at 7 p.m. in the boardroom here. Atikokan High School student Adam Fraser will take the oath to be a student trustee on the board for the 2003-04 […]
While certainly not the only issue discussed at last night’s municipal candidates debate at the Civic Centre, the town’s deficit in 2002—and the projected financial problems for this year—is proving to be the bone of contention between mayoral hopefuls Dan Onichuk and Coun. Sharon Tibbs. Before a nearly full audience, […]
Fort Frances Clinic employees have asked the Ministry of Labour to appoint a conciliation officer to assist them in achieving a contract settlement in their latest round of bargaining. The 26 members of Local #65 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)—who are registered practical nurses, doctors’ helpers, stenographers, […]
