Now that the efforts of the Chamber of Commerce town beautification project can be seen from Central Avenue to the Fort Frances Cemetery, the committee is looking for the public’s support to keep its momentum going. The community will a chance to do that when a barbecue is held at […]
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Despite the persistently feeble Canadian dollar, the number of U.S visitors flocking to this area for shopping and vacation bargains has dropped compared with this time last year, according to some local business owners. “I’m finding there’s a lot fewer tourists this summer,” Tom Pearson, owner of Camp Narrows Lodge […]
The Northwest Catholic District School Board will review its special education programming with a special report at its special meeting tonight at 7 p.m. at the board office (next to St. Francis School). “We’re requested by the Ministry of Education to list all the special education guidelines and services we […]
Construction will be hectic in Fort Frances later this summer after the Ministry of Transportation approved $747,000 in funding, including $213,000 for more improvements to King’s Highway here. Included in the information package received during last night’s regular council meeting was a letter to town clerk Glen Treftlin from Transportation […]
The Northwestern Health Unit posted Morley Beach as “unsafe for swimming” on Friday due to high bacterial counts found during routine sampling. “We sampled today [Monday] and the earliest we’ll know anything will be Wednesday,” said Bill Limerick, environmental health team leader with the health unit. “We’ll have a good […]
Cory Calder and David Woodgate of Fort Frances weighed in a 10-fish total of 21.03 pounds to capture the $5,000 first prize Sunday in the inaugral “Castin’ for Cash” live release bass derby on Lake Despair. Denis Barnard, defending champ of the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship finished in second […]
The Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship is the biggest event of the summer here but it takes many helping hands to pull it off. And with it being less than three weeks away, the search is still on for more volunteers. “We’re doing very well with our volunteers. But we […]
With the Northwestern Health Unit currently conducting a review of its operations, town council will receive a grim compliance report from it at Monday night’s regular meeting here. “It provides details for the fact we are providing only about 70 percent of so-called ‘mandatory programs’ for the Kenora and Rainy […]
More than 150 Hells Angels representing every chapter in Canada are expected to descend upon the normally quiet city of Kenora later this month. The event, called a “Canada Run” by the bikers, has police agencies bracing for trouble. Winnipeg police are especially interested since western bikers will have a […]
After the overwhelming success of last summer’s program, the second-annual Rainy River First Nation Summer Science Camp kicks off next week. The program, which runs July 10 through to Aug. 17, and will be held at the Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung Historical Centre west of Barwick. Organizers include Rainy River First Nation, the […]
“Ontario’s Promise,” a youth volunteer-orientated initiative, began to take shape as representatives and the Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau hosted a series of presentations and workshops here last Thursday. A luncheon for representatives from district communities and businesses also was held at La Place Rendez-Vous in hopes of attracting support from […]
Given the extensive media coverage across Canada and in the northern U.S., the question now is whether the Fort Frances Jail’s spot on the map in the wake of last week’s standoff between inmates and police will be short-lived. A local group had been lobbying to keep the facility open […]
