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 […]
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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 […]
The Northwest Catholic District School Board last night agreed to eliminate the animal care committee as a statutory committee of the board due to a lack of animal research in its schools. “The elementary schools within the jurisdiction of the Northwest Catholic District School Board do not fall under definition […]
Couchiching band members have spoken–and Chuck McPherson plans to keep listening. McPherson, who was elected to his second two-year term as chief Monday, said two messages came across during public forums last Friday and Saturday–accountability and focusing on youth and economic development. “People definitely want an increased accountability from their […]
District motorists are facing the highest gasoline prices ever–and area businesses are being forced to adapt. As of this morning, it was costing people 70.9 cents a litre to fill up here. “We’ve been in this business 44 years and this is the highest we’ve ever seen it,” noted Mayor […]
Globeco International Inc. in Rainy River, along with at least three other regional grants, was among the 424 recently audited by Human Resources and Development Canada but not flagged for further review. “No reason was identified by the auditors to focus special attention on the 424 files [which were selected […]
