The co-chair of the Northwestern Ontario Elk Restoration Committee is hoping it only will be a matter of days before word arrives that the next shipment of elk is ready to be picked up in Alberta and relocated to the site at Cameron Lake. “I got a few calls over […]
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Rainy River First Nation resident Art Hunter is hoping he’ll be seen on national television next week. Hunter spent three days at Old Fort William in Thunder Bay last May, acting in a number of scenes for the CBC mini-series, “Canada, A People’s History,” which currently is being aired. “My […]
Although some people may be hoping we’ve had the last of the big snowfalls this winter, Bob Hamilton would be more than happy to see another large dump of the white stuff. For the past five years, Hamilton has been busy building the Little Beaver Snow Park on the old […]
The Fort Frances Lions Club’s “Polar Plunge” likely will become a New Year’s Day tradition here after hundreds of people turned out yesterday to watch nine people brave the icy waters of Rainy Lake to raise money for local causes. “It was great. We’ve already had lots of people tell […]
Abitibi-Consolidated has shelved plans to log the Reef Point Road-Hopkins Bay Road-Bay Road area for fire and shelter wood–plans which had sparked a public outcry last month. “We can’t log there without adversely affecting the land values,” local mill manager Jim Gartshore said Monday. “The areas will be declared surplus […]
A family of four are facing tough times after their mobile home in the Lakeview Trailer Court here caught fire just prior to midnight Saturday. The blaze left it uninhabitable for Miranda and Trevor Andrushuk and their two young children (aged three and four months), with smoke and heat damage […]
Dave and Mike Allison want to run a “AA” developmental hockey camp here for the weeks of July 19-23 and July 26-30. In fact, they’ve already booked the ice time with Community Services manager George Bell. There’s just one problem. Terry Mihichuk, owner/operator of the existing Borderland Hockey School, has […]
A single-vehicle accident along Highway 11-71 near La Vallee just before 2 a.m. Christmas morning took out a hydro pole that caused a district-wide power outage and a localized power surge which damaged electrical appliances in several households. Police said the lone female driver, who was westbound at the time […]
David Fagerdahl has been catching up on his rest after returning home from a five-week internship as a page at Queen’s Park in Toronto. “It was a lot of hard work but I really enjoyed it,” said the 13-year-old Fort Frances resident. “As a page, I was responsible for serving […]
Local runner Cathy Kowal will be taking part in a 42-km run Jan. 7 at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fl. to help raise money for arthritis research on behalf of local resident and arthritis sufferer Melvin Haukaas. “It is pretty much consuming my days now,” admitted Kowal, a member […]
At least a dozen local residents are expected to take an icy dip for a good cause New Year’s Day as part of the inaugural “Polar Plunge” being staged by the Fort Frances Lions Club. “We’re quite pleased with how it’s going,” said organizer Jim Martindale, who also serves as […]
Despite some doubt it could carry on after losing provincial funding, the Sunset Country Tourism Association has shown little sign of slowing down. When the province announced it no longer would fund grassroots tourism associations, the local SCTA had to scramble to come up with the more than $100,000 shortfall. […]
