Well over 400 students from Fort Frances and Rainy River high schools, as well as Big Grassy, Big Island, Lac La Croix, and Saskatcheway-Anishnabe, flocked to the Red Dog Inn here last Thursday for the Seven Generations Education Institute’s annual career fair. Focused on getting kids to think about what […]
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The Fort Frances Minor Hockey Association has been denied permission by town council to run a separate canteen upstairs in the arena kitchen during hockey tournaments and Muskie games this season. “This puts a challenge up for us to raise funds,” noted Dave Egan, a member of the “Ice for […]
With ’flu season now upon us, the Northwestern Health Unit here is doing its best to ward off the illness this winter with a series of free immunization clinics around the district. “At first, these types of clinics were only designed for those people who were at a high-risk for […]
The future looks a little rosier for the Rainy River Future Development Corp. Fort Frances council has put aside other applicants for the town’s economic development officer and is taking a closer look at what the RRFDC has to offer. “We asked them to alter their application and we’ll talk […]
A little over a week after its initial launch, the Fort Area Exchange has seen no intravenous drug users turn in their used needles for sterile new ones. “There’s been no use on our end of things,” said David Schwartz of Gagne Pharmacy here, one of the program’s four local […]
Organizers have been meeting here monthly to continue planning for the 11th-annual International Conference on Safe Communities, an initiative of the World Health Organization, which is being hosted by Rainy River District in May, 2002. The conference is expected to attract hundreds of delegates from around the world. “We’ve got […]
After looking over the grade three and six testing results at its meeting here Tuesday night, the Northwest Catholic District School Board is aiming to improve scores in the areas of reading, writing, and math.
Dr. Pete Sarsfield put aside his hat as the CEO and chief medical officer of the Northwestern Health Unit’s here last Friday evening and put on his one as author. About 15 people crowded into St. Jude’s Gourmet Coffee Shop on Nelson Street, where Dr. Sarsfield explained the why, what, […]
Dancers from Dancemakers Studio here had the chance to hone their skills last weekend at a workshop in Thunder Bay under the tutelage of Corrina (Corrie) Mae Rolf of Brooklyn Center, Mn. Rolf, who comes with an extensive dance repertoire, directed the group in four different styles of dance: jazz, […]
Hours of volunteering has paid off for Bill Gushulak, who last week was selected as the Citizen of the Year for 2000 in Fort Frances. The Citizen of the Year committee chose Gushulak for his community involvement over the years–culminating this past July with the Fort Frances High School “Millennium” […]
Details of the $700,000 pilot project at Walker/MacKenzie schools here are expected to fall into place next week as a request for proposals is due back Monday. “The request for proposals is out right now. We want to see what vendors come back with what,” said Stephen Danielson, computer systems […]
Dr. Gerald A. Niznick is a former Fort Frances resident who has made it big in the world of dentistry, or prosthodontics to be precise. Dr. Niznick’s company, Paragon Implant Co., which specializes in selling dental implant inventions, recently was purchased by a Swiss orthopedic company, Sulzer Medica, for $100 […]
