Anyone walking by the Masonic Lodge will notice work hasn’t started yet on the town’s second heritage mural but organizers say everything is still on track. “Hopefully, he’ll be here Friday,” Crystal Godbout, a member of the town’s beautification committee, said yesterday, referring to mural artist John Hood. “He’s working […]
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Pastor Etienne Fomgbami can’t help but be struck by the irony of being an African missionary travelling in Canada. In the past, he said, it was usually the other way around. “Before, people were sent to Africa. Now, it’s an African here,” Fomgbami said Sunday while relaxing with his wife […]
Seventy years ago in a forested area near Emo, a young boy of 13 embarked on a career that he’s still doing to this day. While most men his age are enjoying their retirement, 83- year-old Chris Loveday is still getting up every morning to take his place as the […]
High spirits and obliging weather made for a successful second-annual kayakers’ symposium here last weekend. So successful, in fact, that organizers Eric and Caren Fagerdahl, who own Rainy Lake Boatworks, already are planning for next summer. “We’re thinking of paddling to Crow Rock next time,” Eric Fagerdahl said. “Lots of […]
Fort Frances Times published Jim Cumming received the Canadian Community Newspaper Association “President’s Award” on Saturday during its annual convention in Saskatoon. The presentation took place the same evening Cumming officially was elected first vice-president of the CCNA, to which the Times has belonged since 1934. The award–a hand-blown Nova […]
“They have come home with a lot of really good memories that are going to last them their whole life.” That was how Boy Scout leader Don Manty described the recent trip he and four local Scouts took to the Canadian Jamboree on Cabot Beach in Prince Edward Island. The […]
Charges have yet to be laid against the two inmates accused of orchestrating a standoff with police and correctional officers at the Fort Frances Jail last month. “There are still some aspects of the investigation that have to be completed before [the OPP are] in a position to lay criminal […]
A cow–mysteriously beheaded–was found floating in the Rainy River in an eddy just west of Manitou Rapids. “It was headless, upstream of Manitou Rapids,” noted Jennifer Mercer, co-ordinator of the Rainy River First Nation Watershed Program. “It’s out and it’s been buried by one of our community members,” she added. […]
Although the United Native Friendship Centre here has been holding its “head start” program for aboriginal youth for the past five years, co-ordinator Charity McMahon still finds herself getting excited with each new year. “Each time we hold this program, we get a new group of children to work with,” […]
Last summer, it was Shania Twin. This year, a Garth Brooks “double” will confound the audience tomorrow night at the Sorting Gap Marina as part of this week’s Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship festivities. That would be Les Smith, lead singer of “Fresh Horses,” a Garth Brooks tribute band based […]
During a public session Monday night to gather input on the town’s 2002 budget, only two residents had suggestions to offer council. Bruno Seppala, a long-time resident of Fort Frances, had a number of suggestions catering to senior citizens. They included an increase in fines for people parking in handicapped […]
After days–if not weeks–of pre-fishing, it’s now do-or-die time for the 130 teams hitting the water Thursday morning in the seventh-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship. But while pre-fishing may have helped anglers find the hot spots, or at least discover fishing patterns they can use during the real thing, […]
