Several district libraries, including the Fort Frances Public Library, will receive funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to purchase equipment and books, to upgrade training and technology, and to increase accessibility, the Ministry of Culture announced Friday. The local library will receive $9,000 over one year to purchase equipment that […]
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The new mayor and council elected Nov. 10 will be sworn in during a special ceremony tonight at the Civic Centre. The public is welcome to attend as new mayor Dan Onichuk, incumbent councillors Roy Avis, Struchan Gilson, and Neil Kabel, and new councillors Tannis Drysdale, Todd Hamilton, and Rick […]
This Christmas, you can remember a loved one and contribute to a good cause all at the same time. Tammi’s Flower Garden has a “Tree of Memories” in the store—decorated with handmade stocking ornaments—to help support the Alzheimer Society. “People can buy them in memory of someone they want to […]
The third-annual ManOMin Watershed Conference in International Falls last week not only attracted plenty of local attention, it brought in some of the most knowledgeable and well-known people in the environmental field. Case in point, the keynote speaker who kicked the whole thing off last Thursday morning at Rainy River […]
While several reports on improperly-sterilized medical instruments have created a stir in southern Ontario, there’s no cause for alarm here, says the CEO of Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc. “We checked our [infection control] procedures because we were ordered to by the Ministry of Health,” Wayne Woods noted Monday. “And […]
The latest report out of Queen’s Park regarding the Liberal government’s plan to introduce a province-wide smoking ban in all public places was greeted with mixed feelings by the Northwestern Health Unit. The McGuinty government announced earlier this week it intends to go forward with sweeping legislation, but that it […]
Ontario NDP leader and local MPP Howard Hampton called last Thursday’s throne speech a “vague and vacuous” document that proves the Liberal party will not live up to its campaign promises. “Basically, the throne speech is all about the promises they’re breaking,” Hampton said yesterday from Toronto. “Before the election, […]
Despite the fact the town has committed itself to keeping any non-budgeted expenditures to a bare minimum given its current financial woes, the outgoing council agreed at a special meeting Monday night to hire security to stop recent vandalism at the Memorial Sports Centre. And according to those who voted […]
A picture is worth a thousand words, and sometimes a little more. Eric Rude of Fort Frances recently was named winner of Pharmasave’s first amateur photo contest for his picture of sailboats on Sand Bay. The goal of the contest was to highlight some of the picturesque scenery around Fort […]
The drama students at Fort Frances High School are gearing up for another major production, this time a stage version of “The Beverly Hillbillies.” “Someone took the first episode of the show and adapted it to the stage,” FFHS drama teacher and director Willa Kunkel said. “It’s a really good […]
Did you ever want to host a student from another country in your home and learn about another culture first-hand? Or did you ever want to be one of those students and go abroad for the learning experience of a lifetime? If either of these things appeals to you, Barb […]
One of the guest speakers at last week’s ManOMin Watershed Conference in International Falls rightly could be described as a true insider when it comes to forestry. For many years, Herb Hammond was a forester in his native British Columbia as well as an instructor in silviculture and forest ecology […]
