After wondering if the “chem-free” grad would be held at all earlier this month, there’s no question now that Fort High teens can party in a safe, sober setting here June 20. “It’s definitely a ‘go,’” said Diane Noonan, one of the organizers. “Service clubs and the business community have […]
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Jeraldine Bjornson and Patrick Playfair have been a part of our town for the past eight years and on June 18 at La Place Rendezvous the community will have the chance to bid the couple a fond farewell. “We are planning on having a very casual get together to wish […]
The Fort Frances Museum will be holding a cemetery transcribing inventory project here Saturday under the direction of Art Gunnell of the Ontario Genealogical Society. The survey was organized in an effort to preserve Fort Frances history and collect information that will help in the writing of the 2003 Centennial […]
Writer and historian Neil McQuarrie is jumping in with both feet–and he couldn’t be happier. The Brandon, Man. resident temporarily has returned to the town where he grew up in order to collect information that will make his writing of the 2003 Centennial History Book a bit easier. “I am […]
With plans of studying theatre at the University of Guelph this fall, Alison Agar could not have been more pleased when she received word that she had been awarded the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award. “I really did not expect to win the award,” Agar confessed Sunday. “I went through the […]
“We went to Anchorage with a purpose and we more than succeeded.” That’s how Jeannette Cawston, co-ordinator of the 11th-annual World Health Organization conference here next May, summed up local delegates’ trip to the 10th-annual one in Alaska last week. “We had a hugh profile with them. It was great,” […]
The Fort Frances Times celebrated the creation of its new Web site with a launch party and open house Tuesday night. Originally created in 1995, the online edition was in need of some major changes, Web Development Manager Lincoln Dunn said. “We had the chance to look at some Web […]
Following a successful comeback after a four-year absence last year, the Rainy Lake Multicultural Association is planning Culturama again this summer during “Fun in the Sun” celebrations. Slated for June 30 at the Memorial Sport Centre, co-organizer Bev Kotnik said the event once again will be a one-day affair. “It […]
With potholes, shifting, and cracks, road construction and repairs continue to plague town council’s agenda. “I would question the wisdom of taking money out of one project and putting it into frost tapering,” noted Mayor Glenn Witherspoon as the committee of the whole debated what should be priorized in repairing […]
With dozens of forest fires ravaging northern Alberta, local Ministry of Natural Resources firefighters were deployed there Sunday to help fight the raging blazes. Crew leaders Dave Wickstrom and Shawn Corrigan, and crew members George Harrison, Rod Stamarski, Bob Botsford, Amy Welsh, Brian Mackintosh, and Seth Wing joined about 90 […]
The Abitibi-Consolidated mill here is building berms, and the Boise Cascade mill in International Falls has shut down its hydro plant, as the lower Rainy River continues to rise. “At the paper mill, we had to shut down number seven paper machine on Wednesday because of the sewer in the […]
With the deadline to enter coming up next Thursday, organizers are hoping for at least two more contestants for this year’s Fun in the Sun queen pageant. With the lack of contestants being the only missing piece in making the pageant a reality, co-organizer Rachel Thiessen stressed there’s many incentives […]
