For the second-straight year, the Kiwanis Good Friday breakfast at the Red Dog Inn here was a sell-out success, attracting more than 240 people. That’s great growth considering the inaugural event 10 years ago only saw 43 attend. “Every year it’s increased,” said Kiwanian Ken Koprowski, who organized the breakfast. […]
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While the motion was defeated on a tie vote, Mayor Glenn Witherspoon thinks council’s decision Monday not to agree to repair Front Street in time for the July 1 opening of Phase II of the La Verendrye Parkway was misdirected. “It’s too bad,” the mayor said yesterday morning. “What it […]
You’ve probably seen them in gift shops or photos. And, in fact, eggs exquisitely painted in intricate patterns seem to pop up around this time of year like, well, rabbits. If you were at the Easter Market here last Thursday and Saturday, you also would have seem them there—thanks to […]
Earth Day may mean many things to many people, but for the Grade 3 class from St. Michael’s School in Fort Frances, this one undoubtedly will be remembered as a day in the country. April 22 has come to be recognized as Earth Day in Canada—an opportunity to reflect on […]
Another season of Border Concert Association shows ended April 10 with the appearance of singer Kathy Wagner and pianist Rich Ridenour on stage at Backus Auditorium in International Falls. In a show appropriately titled “Everything Under the Sun,” Wagner and Ridenour kept the audience buzzing with an eclectic performance that […]
Citing the $1.3-million price tag to repair Front Street much too high in the face of increasing debt payments to be made this year, in 2004, and beyond, town council decided Monday the work will have to wait. But the decision wasn’t an easy one, as it came down to […]
With the deadline for applications having expired last Tuesday, the Fort Frances Community Fund now must determine which groups will receive a share of this year’s allotment of more than $56,000 from the Moffat Family Fund. And Fort Frances CAO Bill Naturkach, who heads the community fund committee first struck […]
The new president of the Fort Frances Sportsmen’s Club is taking the infomercial route to try and spread the message about the benefits of his organization’s brand of outdoor recreation. Blair Beadow said the club has purchased a series of tapes from the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters which […]
Although the Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board has been sounding the alarm over a flaw in the funding formula for land ambulance service since 2001, the provincial government is no closer to making the necessary changes. “We’re still fighting the fight over the unincorporated share,” DSSAB CEO Donna […]
Local business can survive in the shadow of the elephant if it plays it smart, according to a leading retail consulting, marketing, and research firm. John C. Williams of the Williams Group told a group of 130 representatives of local businesses at La Place Rendez-Vouz yesterday morning that their fate […]
As proposed changes to the federal riding boundary inch towards becoming reality, which side of the fence do the communities that will lose, and gain, Rainy River District sit? Although the district is separate from communities like Kenora, Atikokan, and Thunder Bay, one thing that seems to be a common […]
The clock is ticking for area residents to voice their concerns over a proposed change to federal riding boundaries, which would see Rainy River District removed from the Kenora riding and added instead to Thunder Bay. “Nobody saw this coming,” said local MP Robert Nault, who has held the Kenora-Rainy […]
