Since it was established in mid-November, the Fort Frances Area Needle Exchange has seen some use in the district and has been deemed successful by organizers. “I’m pleased with the how it’s progressing. People are starting to access it, and it’s been requested now in other parts of Northwestern Ontario,” […]
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With 35 team captains and about 350 participants out collecting pledges, the first-annual “Relay for Life” here is quickly gathering momentum. The local event likely will follow in the footsteps of several “Relay for Life” events in southeastern Ontario, which collectively raised about $1.6 million for cancer research. The local […]
The popular BIA mid-summer “Mall Day” event, slated for Thursday, June 28, will have a completely new look this year. For the first time, Scott Street will be kept open to vehicular traffic, with the racks of display merchandise and various displays to be on the sidewalks. This change, according […]
“Quest for the Best” already is shaping up to be one of the highlights of the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship late next month, with contestant forms available as of last week. “Quite a few people have called so far. And lots of people have picked up forms to enter,” […]
Rainy Lake continued to rise over the weekend, reaching 338.227 m (1,109.67 ft) Monday morning. But with no rain in the forecast, the lake level is expected to crest soon. “I would say for sure this week,” noted Raimo Tyrvainen, energy and utilities co-ordinator for Abitibi-Consolidated here. Namakan Lake, which […]
It seems Bill 140 won’t force residential tax rates to rise here–or cause cuts to the town’s 2001 budget–after all thanks to an education tax reduction. During a special meeting Thursday afternoon, council voted to keep tax ratios the same as legislated by Bill 140–and also received an indication from […]
Days before final approval of a new Customs facility here, the town has been faced with the option of purchasing the international bridge. The idea, brought forward by local lawyer Lawrence G. Phillips in a letter to council last month, caught the attention of Abitibi-Consolidated’s general manager Jim Gartshore, who […]
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. and Boise Cascade have reached a tentative agreement with Revenue Canada which, once finalized, will allow construction of the new customs and immigration facility here to go ahead. “We reached a tentative agreement on the issue of sterile-zone operating and that’s the last hurdle,” Jim Gartshore, general manager […]
The hunt for summer jobs is on, and the Human Resource Centre of Canada for Students here wants those looking for work to know its doors are open. The centre, located at 301 Scott St. (above the post office), will hold its official opening Friday, starting with a ribbon-cutting at […]
Town council held a special meeting at noon Thursday to decide the 2001 tax rates, with a hike in residential taxes likely to be the outcome. With Bill 140 legislating that commercial, industrial, and multi-residential taxes be lowered to a certain ratio, council was faced with lowering those with a […]
Tuesday evening the Fort Frances Times celebrated the creation of their brand new website with a launch party and open house. Originally created in 1996, the online edition was in need of some major changes according to Web Development Manager, Lincoln Dunn. “We had the chance to look at some […]
Two of the five gas stations in Fort Frances–Witherspoon’s One Stop and Sunset Shell–are up for sale. Citing retirement as the reason, both Mayor Glenn Witherspoon, owner of Witherspoon’s One Stop, and the Gustafson family, who own Sunset Shell, hope to get out of the business altogether. “You hit a […]
