Joan Allison is getting out her feather boa and dusting off her top hat for the third-annual Riverside Foundation for Health Care fundraiser dinner coming up Saturday at La Place Rendez-Vous. “We’re over 200 [guests] and that was our goal. But if we can get 230 before Thursday, it would […]
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More than 500 students gathered at the Red Dog Inn last Thursday to attend the Seven Generations Education Institute’s third-annual career fair. “It’s to give aboriginal students an opportunity to see what careers are available and show them how to work towards that goal,” said Delbert Horton, chief executive officer […]
Six Fort High students learned a lot while attending sessions from law to science and technology at the recent “Encounters with Canada” conference in Ottawa. “I went to a sports and fitness one,” noted Nicole Rogozinski, a grade 10 student who attended the Jan. 31-Feb. 6 conference with Erin Anderson, […]
With the FFHS Millennium Reunion now only months away, former students from Fort Frances High School have begun to meet in their decade groups to plan their events. By the end of the month, all the decade groups will have held their inaugural meetings. Topics being discussed at the meetings […]
The Fort Frances Curling Club was packed Saturday night for the fifth-annual Chamber of Commerce awards banquet–which Tony Beyak was quick to point out shortly after being sworn in as president for a second consecutive term. “I know we have 195 people here tonight. I can think back to events […]
Veronica Dejo is very much a city girl. Born in Lima, Peru, raised in Vancouver, and educated for a year in Hong Kong, the 27-year-old thought she had experienced it all until she signed on with Experience Canada and was introduced to Fort Frances. “When we arrived here, the first […]
Aimee Pelletier is all about leadership, service, and character. At least that’s what she proved to the Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation, which recently awarded her a four-year, $55,000 scholarship to help her through university after several months of interviews. “I was simply shocked,” the 18-year-old Fort High student said. “I […]
Town council was given an update on the Fort Frances Web site at Monday night’s regular meeting, as well as a demonstration of the first phase of the G.I.S. computer-mapping program. The G.I.S. (geographical information system) is a complex program that is based on a series of maps of the […]
Former resident Neil McQuarrie, who recently published a booklet entitled “Recollections of a Fort Frances Childhood,” will see proceeds from it donated to the Fort Frances Museum as a way of saying thank you for its help to do research for his writings. Stories in the booklet are copies of […]
Megan Hebert and Zachary Byrne will be taking flight to France this Friday as the two St. Francis students fulfill the second half of an exchange agreement that began last August. And the grade eight students in the grade seven/eight French Immersion class are ready to spend several months in […]
Members of the local Beta Sigma Phi sorority plan to make their first “fashion statement” when they model a century’s worth of clothing this spring at the Red Dog Inn. “A Stroll Through the Century–Tea & Vintage Fashion Show” will take to the stage Saturday, April 15 at 2 and […]
Fort Frances High School will facilitate its bus departures with a one-way road after the Northwest Catholic District School Board approved use of the St. Francis Sportsfield parking area last night. The proposed “new road” runs northwest parallel to the high school, and branching through a wide gap in the […]
