Local aviation artist Cher Hogan is heading south this week to accept one of three top art awards in the “Horizons of Flight Competition”–the largest aviation art contest in North America. Hogan will be presented with the “American Women in Aviation Maintenance” award for her painting entitled, “Personal Touch.” It […]
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With “Gate Night” and Hallowe’en coming up this weekend, police officers and volunteers will be hitting the town streets for “Operation Pumpkin”–the annual patrol aimed at preventing vandalism. Now in its seventh year, the program has worked well to curb mischievous acts in the past and police expect this year’s […]
Jeremy Asselin is glad he has a cousin like Tyson Grinsell. Some quick thinking by Grinsell, a fourth-grader at Robert Moore School, ensured an ambulance was dispatched immediately after seeing his eight-year-old cousin get struck by a pick-up truck just before noon last Wednesday at the corner of Second Street […]
About 20 people got to talk “face to face” to four video conferencing experts from Toronto, Boston, and Calgary last Friday–all from the comfort of one conference room at the Red Dog Inn here. Just one of its seven video conferencing centres across Northwestern Ontario, Thunder Vision Inc. and Bell […]
Ten youths from Rainy River District who took part in the Northwestern Ontario Schools Chess Championship finals in Thunder Bay last weekend have qualified to attend the provincial showdown in Toronto next spring. Those who garnered the opportunity to go to the provincials included locals Justin Sanders (Fort High), Josh […]
“He’s strapped to my hip,” Ray Engelbertink, owner of Canadian Tire here, said yesterday morning of his close association with his newest companion–a teddy bear he must carry with him everywhere and administer insulin shots to twice daily for a week. Engelbertink was among 11 local participants who yesterday took […]
After two months preparing for the big night, the curtain rises on the Fort Frances High School musical revue tonight. The revue, entitled “TV Tunes,” runs tonight until Friday at 8 p.m. in the Townshend Theatre. And John Dutton, one of the musical directors, has been very pleased with the […]
In a close vote Monday night, “Memorial Centre” eked out “’52 Canadians Centre” as the name for the town’s skating, pool, and fitness complex on Gillon Avenue. The straw vote taken in the committee of the whole meeting was 4-2 after reviewing the list of 11 names suggested by the […]
Last Thursday’s throne speech is “very good news” for Northern Ontario, the minister of Northern Development and Mines told the Times last week. With a proposed 20 percent reduction in income tax and a further 20 percent cut to the provincial portion of residential taxes, Tim Hudak added northerners will […]
Proposed renovations at La Verendrye hospital here and at the Emo Health Centre got a $4.7-million boost from the provincial government Monday and that has a lot of people smiling. “Certainly, we’re delighted to hear the good news,” said Wayne Woods, chief executive officer of Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc. […]
Last week’s speech from the throne by new Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson shows the federal government’s “balanced approach” to social spending and tax reduction, local MP Robert Nault said Friday. But Ontario NDP leader and local MPP Howard Hampton said the federal Liberals still come up short in the areas […]
Medical professionals across the district could be one step closer to better understanding what impact a disease called Blastomycosis has had here when a case study on it is released next week by the Northwestern Health Unit. The study was done under the direction of Bill Limerick, team leader for […]
