Eight years worth of community service as an instructor for the “55 Alive” driver education program for seniors, and other informative workshops, earned OPP Cst. Steve Latimer the 1999 “Good Neighbour” award. More than 50 people were on hand at the old CN station here Friday afternoon for the award […]
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“Ice for Kids” will present a letter at town council’s next meeting Dec. 13 requesting the group be put back “on board” the canteen project to help raise the extra $200,000 local share needed for the new arena project. Co-chair Dave Egan confirmed this morning they’re prepared to return to […]
From Vivaldi’s “Gloria” to selections from “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” director Stephanie Hawkins said the Rainy River Community Choir’s sixth-annual Christmas concert will have something for everybody. The choir kicks off the first of its four performances tomorrow at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Bergland. […]
Cathy Bruyere was all smiles after learning renovations needed at the Gizhewaadiziwin Access Centre on Couchiching would go ahead. “I think it’s very positive,” Bruyere said of Friday’s announcement that the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp. was providing $3.22 million in capital funding for health care centres across the region. […]
Grade three students under the Northwest Catholic District School Board improved in the areas of reading, writing, and math over last year, trustees learned at Saturday’s regular monthly meeting. The biggest jump came in math, with students showing a 17 percent jump compared to 1998. Still, the local results of […]
“Ice for Kids” is so livid over town council’s decision to name the new ice surface “52 Canadians Arena” that it has withdrawn its pledge to run the canteen there to raise the additional $200,000 local share needed for the $7.3-million project. And that has the town wondering how to […]
Muskie Theatre’s four-night run of “Fame” came to a close Saturday in front of yet another sold-out Townshend Theatre. After the last show, the cast and crew took down the set and then had one final get-together in the cafeteria at Fort High as members of “Fame.” The moment was […]
The district Substance Abuse Prevention team paired up with the local chapter of Ontario Students Against Impaired Driving last week to bring Drug Awareness Week to Fort Frances High School. Activities began last Monday with the “Day of the Dead.” Every 27 minutes, the Grim Reaper would take a student […]
Town council has approved in principle the latest design for a new Canada Customs facility here at its regular meeting Monday night. “Option K-9” involves building the new facility on the south side of Church Street near the corner of Central Avenue. The Ontario travel information centre would be moved […]
CN still needs a final blessing from the province on its certificate of approval to bring the diesel fuel cleanup project up to full speed, council was told Monday night. The town was informed through a progress report, dated Nov. 15, by CN environmental engineer Harri Liivamagi. CN dug three […]
Mayor Glenn Witherspoon said the town was “off to the races” after council agreed to sign the cellular phone service operating agreement between itself, Atikokan, and Thunder Bay. Doug McCaig, chair of the Fort Frances PUC and a member of Northwest Mobility, was joined by Geoff Gillon of the Rainy […]
The Border Waters Coalition admitted the province’s decision to drop its law requiring non-resident anglers to stay overnight in Ontario in order to keep walleye and sauger was a “finger in the dike”–and one forced upon them after mistakes by Canadian lawyers in 1995. But it was a decision that […]
