The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce is holding a corn roast in conjunction with the BIA’s Harvest Festival tomorrow to raise money for town beautification. Now that summer is over, it is time to think about projects for next year, which includes fundraising. “The more money we can raise, the […]
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The two-day blood donor clinic that wrapped up here Thursday fell well short of its goal. “We had a total of 368 donors and that’s short of our quota of 425,” said Marnee Miller of the La Verendrye hospital auxiliary, which helped organize the clinic locally. The clinic, held at […]
The second-annual “Fly-in, Drive-in” barbecue is ready to take off Saturday at the Fort Frances Airport–providing Mother Nature co-operates. “It’s looking good if you just give us good weather,” organizer Bruce Caldwell noted. At least 14 planes plan to land at the airport Saturday morning for the barbecue, which also […]
Communities across Rainy River District that suffered varying degrees of damage and loss because of severe weather July 31 will receive disaster relief funding. Northern Development and Mines minister Dan Newman announced yesterday that eight municipalities, including Fort Frances, and two unorganized areas will receive funding through the Ontario Disaster […]
In preparation for their post-secondary education, Fort High students will get a chance to learn about what’s out there for them at the Ontario college tour Friday and university one Monday. And if and when students do decide, they’ll all be applying to schools a little differently this year–through the […]
The crowds, loud music, and potential drama for an exciting finish all were under the big tent Sunday for the final five weigh-ins of the third-annual Rainy River walleye tournament. Unfortunately, the fish were not. The top two boats from the first day Saturday failed to catch any fish on […]
“Build it and they will come,” an oft-repeated catch-phrase of the town’s economic development officer, was emphasized by Fort Frances CAO Bill Naturkach upon his return from the annual “Northern Networks” trade conference in Green Bay, Wis. last week. The conference highlighted several economic development initiatives, among them the idea […]
Canadian Blood Services (CBS) resumes its annual Northwestern Ontario fall tour this week with two mobile blood donor clinics at Fort Frances High School. The clinics will be held Wednesday, Sept. 26 and again Thursday, Sept. 27. “Canadians have shown an incredible outpouring of support in response to the recent […]
Plans to proceed with the purchase of a new, state-of-the-art computer system for the Civic Centre were quashed by town council Monday night. With the vote ending in a 3-3 tie (Coun. Struchan Gilson was absent from the meeting), a proposal to purchase hardware, software, and whatever else is needed […]
After still not selling all the tour de Fort “Encore” series vouchers at Saturday night’s Barra MacNeils concert here, they will be on sale again all this week. “People always ask us, ‘When are you selling tickets?’ The fact that we’re doing it all week long is really more convenient,” […]
Town council is expected to pass a bylaw at Monday night’s regular meeting that will allow Canada Safeway here to make an entrance on the east side of its parking lot beside the gas station. Safeway made the request to improve traffic flow in and out of the gas station. […]
Grade 10 students across the province will be writing the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test next month, but this year they’re required to pass it to graduate. That’s the message Fort Frances High School wants to stress to parents when it hosts a special information meeting Wednesday at 7 p.m. […]
