The Safe Communities Incentive Plan is paying off for about 140 district businesses but organizers are on the lookout for new recruits as the program enters its third year here. “The next step, from now to January, will be to accept more registrations,” said SCIP co-ordinator Jeannette Cawston, who noted […]
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The Fort Frances Kiwanis Club celebrated its 75th anniversary with a dinner Sept. 24 at La Place Rendez-Vous. “The 75th went off quite well. It was great to see everyone out,” said Robin Wright, who took over as club president for 1999-2000 from Ken Allan that evening. Many long-time club […]
Preparations are well underway for the grand opening of the new Fort Frances High School next Wednesday, with a tour of the state-of-the-art facility planned from 4-5:30 p.m. The grand opening also will feature a ribbon-cutting in the school foyer, along with two other special stops at the library and […]
Fort Frances Little Theatre is hoping to attract a good field of actors for its first production, “Cinderella Waltz,” with auditions slated next Wednesday from 7-9 p.m. upstairs at the museum. The play, a broad-based comedy slated to be staged sometime in January, consists of four male characters and five […]
Niska Calm Wind, 16, Lance Vargas-Solis, 17, and Wasaskun Wuttunee, 20, aren’t taking lightly their approach to manhood. In fact, it could be said they’ve paddled for miles in order to get there. The young trio, who hail from British Columbia, Alberta, and Sioux Lookout, Ont. respectively, along with their […]
The Fort Frances Museum’s “Parlour Party” last Sunday was a place for children to play with replicas of old-fashioned toys and clothing. And for local seniors like Kay Whalen, Evelyn Metke, and Edith Newman, it offered a chance to step back in time to recall the novelties of their childhood. […]
Despite a committee recommendation to go with a cheaper arena seat, town council has opted for what Community Services manger George Bell called a much better model. The original seat up for approval at Monday night’s council meeting was the Ducharme 500, a floor-mounted model that came with a $22,940 […]
As the Year 2000 draws ever closer, Fort Frances looks to be in good shape for being “Y2K” compliant, Darryl Allan told town council during its regular meeting Monday night. Allan, who sits on the ‘Y2K’ Community Preparedness Committee, said a large-scale test of electrical power systems conducted Sept. 8-9 […]
More than a dozen participants of a field naturalist group that first took shape here last spring plan to formalize a club at a public meeting slated Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. at the Northwestern Health Unit. The group hopes to develop a draft terms of reference, elect directors, and […]
“No matter what kids are doing now, if they start playing chess, they will get better at what they do.” That’s what John Rutherford, co-ordinator of the COREL Northwestern Ontario Schools Chess Championships, believes. And if he’s right, then 18 youngsters who participated in a regional chess tournament here yesterday […]
They are people who have given the gift of life–over and over and over again. Local residents Paul Fraser, Darcy Oliver, Pat Pacarenuk, Ken Robertson, and Elsie Ward were honoured at the Canadian Blood Services donor clinic last Thursday night at Fort High for giving blood 35 times or more. […]
It was a chance to be heard by the federal and provincial governments, Fort Frances delegate Deb Ward said of the Northwestern Ontario Associated Chambers of Commerce annual meeting in Atikokan last week. “We don’t like it when they make a decision on our livelihood without input,” Ward said Monday, […]
