After meeting with Bell Canada reps here last week, local Internet Service Providers and Mayor Glenn Witherspoon agree–it’s time to look for alternative sources of high-speed Internet. “Hopefully, Northwest Mobility will flip on their microwave towers this week and we’ll need somebody like the Fort Frances Power Corp. to act […]
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Although regional municipalities face less funding and more red tape than ever before, there appeared to be little antagonism towards provincial and federal leaders at the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association’s annual meeting here last week. “There wasn’t too much hollering and screaming, but I think everyone realizes the changes have […]
Fort Frances resident John McTaggart was honoured with a special provincial award for exceptional volunteerism during a ceremony at the Legion Hall in Atikokan last night. He was presented with the Outstanding Achievement Award (OAA) for leading a major fundraising campaign for two district health care facilities (“Care Close to […]
Get your poodle skirts on and your pompadour combed for an evening of ’50s song and dance when Fort Frances High School stages its version of the popular musical, “Grease,” starting tomorrow night at the Townshend Theatre. The two-hour musical will be the last show the students will hold this […]
This past Saturday, the Business Women’s Network of Rainy River District held its third-annual charity ball at the Fort Frances Curling Club. The event, which raised money for the local division of the Easter Seal Society, was attended by well over 100 people who were treated to an evening of […]
Some people collect coins or stamps or even bottle caps. Marg Johnsrud of McCrosson-Tovell, on the other hand, collects cans. Marg’s living room is adorned with well over 100 cans, tins, and bottles. She started collecting, unintentionally, some 45 years ago when she carried her 4–H stuff in a tin […]
The Canadian Cancer Society’s “Relay for Life” is gathering momentum here with its new official sponsor and more than 300 participants already signed up. “It’s going very good. The response from the community has been great,” enthused relay co-ordinator Suzanne Danku. The Royal Canadian Legion Branch #29 Ladies Auxiliary has […]
With the World Health Organization’s 11th-annual International Conference on Safe Communities now less than a year away, local organizers are heading to the 10th-annual one in Alaska later this month. “The delegates are leaving on the 19th, and I’m leaving Saturday to go there and help set up,” WHO co-ordinator […]
A day-long information symposium, featuring renowned diabetes researcher Dr. Greg Korbutt, is being hosted by the Canadian Diabetes Association here next Tuesday (May 15). “It is not very often that you have the chance to sit down and listen to someone of Dr. Korbutt’s calibre,” said event spokesperson Bud Edwards. […]
As jack-hammering can be heard around the area where the temporary dialysis unit will be housed at La Verendrye hospital here, Riverside CEO Wayne Woods said work is proceeding on schedule. “It’s going fine. They’ve had to tear up the floor and will be installing a new drain system for […]
Alberton council has been hit by another challenge with word the township’s municipal clerk, Faye Flatt, is being tapped for a job with the Town of Fort Frances. Although the hiring has yet to be formally approved by Fort Frances council, Flatt, who has been Alberton’s clerk for the past […]
Alberton clerk Faye Flatt has been hired by the Town of Fort Frances to take on the position of municipal planner, the Times learned this morning. Flatt, who has been Alberton’s clerk for five years, will replace Ted Berry, who is retiring from the position. Although the hiring decision has […]
