Sen. Ron Duhamel’s commitment to his family, lifelong learning, and Canada was praised Saturday when more than 1,000 mourners packed St. Boniface Cathedral in Winnipeg for his funeral. Duhamel, who had passed away a week ago Monday after a long battle with cancer, was remembered fondly by many throughout Rainy […]
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Sen. Ron Duhamel’s commitment to his family, lifelong learning, and Canada was praised Saturday when more than 1,000 mourners packed St. Boniface Cathedral in Winnipeg for his funeral. Duhamel, who had passed away a week ago Monday after a long battle with cancer, was remembered fondly by many throughout Rainy […]
The local Kiwanis Club is encouraging the public to attend a special meeting next Wednesday (Oct. 16) on a proposed skate park here. “We have a vision of where we want to go. It’s now a matter of the community getting into it,” said Steve Maki, past president of the […]
As the River Walk Condominium project inches closer to completion here, the Fort Frances Non-Profit Housing Committee is working on marketing plans to help sell the remaining 12 units. “From a construction point of view, this is one of the busiest times in the project. They’re well into everything on […]
Bullying is not acceptable in any form was the message students at St. Francis School here got Tuesday from the Fort Frances OPP. “At any school in the Rainy River District and here at St. Francis School, there is a zero tolerance towards bullying,” Cst. Al MacDonald said sternly as […]
The chili was named “Pwi-Di-Good.” And obviously judges Laurie Walsh, Marla Thomson, and Ala Dulas must have thought so, too, as they chose Connie Kress and Angela Bombay of Pwi-Di-Goo-Ziing Ne-Yee-Zhing Advisory Services as this year’s Times Great Chili Cook-off champs last Friday. “It was cold out, but it was […]
Starting next week, there will be new students eagerly filing into Fort High as the school kicks off its new evening education program. The Rainy River District School Board will be offering a number of adult education classes on everything from automobile basics for women to acquiring your G.E.D. adult […]
It took four people—and a fishing net—to bring one tired little piggy home last weekend after a night of scampering around town lost and confused. “Clementine,” a three-month-old Vietnamese pot belly pig, had the adventure of her life when she trotted away from her owner, Beth Paleczny, on Friday afternoon. […]
With three new full-time paramedics set to start locally this fall, and a new paramedic program to be offered by Confederation College here next year, ambulance services are looking at a possible end to the staffing shortage that has plagued the district. One full-time paramedic is slated to begin working […]
Those attending “tour de Fort’s” first concert of its 2002-03 season had better be prepared for some side-splitting antics as Lorne Elliott takes the stage at the Townshend Theatre tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. “Hopefully, all passport-holders can make it out to the show and if they can’t come, maybe they […]
Art enthusiasts hoping to attend this year’s “Music in the Gallery” at the Fine Line Art Gallery here will have to act fast as only a limited number of tickets will go on sale Wednesday. Just 35 people will be lucky enough to snap up the $8 tickets to the […]
Fort Frances OPP would like to see a few more volunteers for its “Policing for Results” telephone survey it hopes to start conducting here next week. “Right now, we have about 10 people to do it. Ideally, I’d like to see 15 or more,” Fort Frances OPP Sgt. Steve Shouldice […]
