Although only 22, local singer Alyson Booth has a number of years of experience under her belt as far as performing goes. And while she’s placed in several “Quest for the Best” competitions here, including once in first place, she and Emo pianist Michelle Sommerfield hit the jackpot last weekend […]
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Exceeding its preliminary total of $1,500, a more recent tally shows he Fort High senior band raised more than $3,000 towards its trip to Germany and Austria next March Break at an Oktoberfest dinner and silent auction last Thursday evening at the Legion here. “It’s been a month in the […]
It was almost Hallowe’en so it seemed like a good time to look at a haunted school. A tour of abandoned Fort Frances High School should prove scary enough by now, all right. You really can’t expect to find vampires over there, even if bats and rats should be plentiful. […]
While ’flu shots have been available to those in high-risk groups and health care workers since the middle of October, the Northwestern Health Unit here has been getting ready to administer the vaccine to the public starting Nov. 14. “We’re really looking at this as being much, much bigger than […]
While the Pupil Accommodation Committee won’t meet until Nov. 21 to look at three recommendations for school closures/amalgamations, any decisions aren’t expected to be made for quite some time. “It would take a minimum of two years, and possibly three or four years, before we see any real changes,” said […]
The funding for the new hemodialysis unit at La Verendrye hospital here has been cemented after the Aboriginal Dialysis Initiative donated $450,000 to the project at a presentation yesterday morning at the Red Dog Inn. With $350,000 given to the “Care Close to Home” campaign, and another $100,000 to Riverside […]
As a self-confessed “junk-food addict,” participating in the annual Diabetes Celebrity Challenge is something I never could have imagined myself doing. That is, until George Bartlett, carrying a fuzzy teddy bear and sporting a Diabetes Awareness shirt, walked into the Times office last month and asked if I would like […]
Teachers with the Northwest Catholic District School Board will receive a two percent salary hike after the Ontario Elementary English Catholic Teachers’ Association ratified a contract for the 2000-01 school year. The deal was announced at the board’s regular monthly meeting Saturday in Sioux Lookout. “It’s a really a cut […]
The deputy minister of education headed back to Toronto with list of concerns and ideas from both the local public and separate school boards after a two-day visit here last week.
Vandals and thieves beware! The Fort Frances OPP once again will get a helping hand from the community Monday when “Operation Pumpkin” hits the streets in an effort to curb mischief associated with Hallowe’en. “It’s a Community Policing Committee initiative to reduce vandalism on ‘Gate Night,’” Sgt. Don Robertson said […]
Millions of Canadians who heat their homes with natural gas will be faced with a severe price increase this winter. Though steadily rising gasoline prices have been the main focus in the news lately, the next few months will see jumps in natural gas bills that will make the gas […]
Fort Frances remains the only municipality in the Kenora and Rainy River districts that has refused to pay a levy increase to the Northwestern Health Unit–and the issue is starting to heat up among councillors. Council decided to refuse to pay the hike when it was issued by the health […]
