Although it’s been up and running in one form or another for more than three years, the Fort Frances High School web page now reflects the diversity of the new facility. “We are rather proud of our latest design as it incorporates almost every facet of our new high school,” […]
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While preparing almost 250 Christmas hampers and gathering close to 500 toys, local Salvation Army Envoy Eric Alcock said people in this area have been extremely generous this year. “Everything has gone very well, and I’d have to say the most outstanding thing this year has been food and toy […]
Jim Martindale of Fort Frances plans to ring in the new millennium in a chilly way–by taking part in a “polar bear swim” on New Year’s Day. Despite comments of “You’re crazy to do that,” Martindale also has raised more than $1,000 in pledges to participate in the annual “Kermodei […]
After spending a year building up the impressive light display in front of their First Street East home, the Turgeons were delighted to hear they were one of the first-place winners in the Rainy River Future Development Corp.’s “Lighting up the Valley” contest. “We’re very happy. We put a lot […]
The computers at the Civic Centre should be back on line by tomorrow or Friday, Darryl Allan said in last “Y2K” preparation report to town council Monday night. Allan, chair of the town’s “Y2K” readiness committee, said the conversion was delayed one day–from Dec. 18 to Dec. 19–to allow for […]
Emo Atom teams had a good week, winning three of four games. First the Selects bounced visiting Gillons’ (Fort Frances) 4-1, scoring three second-period markers to pull away. Eric Soucy blinked the light twice while Braden Baker and Brian Wayash had one each. Taylor Jorgenson notched Gillons’ lone goal. Then […]
There isn’t a Christmas I can remember, as a child, when my family and I didn’t make the annual trek out into the bush for a real Christmas tree. Most times my dad had gone out earlier in the year and tagged the perfect tree with ribbon so we could […]
While students at two Thunder Bay high schools may be turning in jeans and T-shirts in favour of school uniforms next September, both the Northwest Catholic District School Board and the Rainy River District School Board have no such plans for now. “It came up at one school council meeting […]
The Rainy River District School Board has hired a Toronto man for a four-month term to design a website to increase the public’s access to information. “The Ontario government has a centralized data base, linked to many of the school boards across Ontario,” Nelson Chan noted last week. “But so […]
It was a matter of principle for Coun. Struchan Gilson and Coun. Dave Bourgeault, who voted against the bylaw to amend council’s previous decision on the names of the rinks at the new Memorial Sports Centre. Council changed its mind at a special meeting Dec. 2, going with “Ice for […]
As Rainycrest Home for the Aged awaits word from the Ministry of Health on the status of its proposal for a special needs unit here, administration remains certain the addition will go ahead–one way or another. “Our job is to meet the needs of district seniors, and whether we get […]
“We love ‘La Nina’! The [weather’s] beautiful, unbelievable!” Those words summed up how Brady Hupet and his buddies felt after teeing off at Kitchen Creek Golf Course yesterday afternoon, setting personal records for the latest “out of season” golf game they’d ever played. With temperatures hitting almost four C (40 […]
