The Northwestern Ontario “Smart Growth” panel will get some suggestions about the region’s economic future April 8. That’s when a proposal drawn up by three regional partners will be given to the panel for approval, said Tannis Drysdale, president of the Northwestern Ontario Associated Chambers of Commerce. The proposal, endorsed […]
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With confusion over when polls closed, delays in announcing results, and having to return to polling stations to vote twice in one day, electing Ernie Eves as Ontario’s new premier was an all-day event for some local Progressive Conservative party members Saturday. About a dozen people in Fort Frances weren’t […]
With officials spending more time before the Labour Relations Board than the negotiating table, and union officials organizing province-wide rallies, there is no end in sight to the Ontario Public Service Employees Union strike now entering its third week. Since 45,000 OPSEU members went on strike March 13, the province […]
If you’re heading down to the Red Dog next Thursday (April 4), you’ll notice James Bruyere will be the newest little edition to their workforce. This is due to “Take your kids to work” Day—a program that gives ninth-graders at Fort High a chance to sample the workforce which they […]
“I’ll be right back, I’ve got to go cut some 2x4s.” Greenside’s owner Pam Carlson is a “Jane-of-all-trades” at the Devlin general store that’s been in her family since 1946. She loves working in the lumber yard, woodworking, and mixing paints—skills that helped her give the business a recent facelift. […]
All eight-year-old Casey Gould wants to do is ride on the school bus with his friends. But Casey has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy—a disorder where muscles and strength degenerate over time—and soon will need to use an electric wheelchair to get around. When that happens, he’ll have no way to get […]
The air will be covered in bright yellow next week as local Beta Sigma Phi members conclude their annual “daffodil drive” on behalf of the Canadian Cancer Society. People can pre-order their flowers at $5 for a bunch of 10 at various locations throughout Fort Frances and Emo, including The […]
The Royal Canadian Legion here was buzzing last weekend as the third-annual Gord Dunville Memorial doubles tournament took place, attracting competitors from all over the district, including Dryden, Sioux Lookout, and Thunder Bay, as well as some from the U.S. The “Blind” doubles competition Friday night saw Bill Payne and […]
Sidney Bruhl needs to write an award-winning play to restore his fortune and save his career. His former student, Clifford Anderson, has penned a murder mystery that could do just that. Of course, Sidney’s thoughts turn to murder—and so the stage is set for Fort Frances Little Theatre’s upcoming production […]
April is the month when the youth of our community and country really show us what they can do. It’s the month when about 170,000 teens volunteer 30 hours of their time to participate in World Vision’s “30-hour Famine” by going without solid food for 30 hours—relying on nothing but […]
Kim Metke, owner of Pharmasave and Clinic Pharmasave here, walked away as Entrepreneur of the Year for the second time at the seventh-annual Chamber of Commerce awards banquet Saturday night at the Red Dog Inn. He also won that award in 1996. “I realized that I had a pretty good […]
The inaugural Ontario Business Improvement Area Association conference in Hamilton last week proved very informative to local BIA members who attended it. “It was a very good conference,” Larry Syrovy, who sits on both the local BIA and OBIAA boards, said after returning home late last Wednesday. “It helped us […]
