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 […]
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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, […]
Chili–some like it hot and some do not. But just about everybody will find a batch that tickles their taste buds at the fourth-annual Great Chili Cook-off. Slated for Friday, Oct. 8 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. under the tent in the parking lot at the Fort Frances Times, […]
The government has to stop using “cookie cutter solutions” to solve Ontario’s health care problems, according to a resolution endorsed by the Northern Ontario Associated Chambers of Commerce at its annual meeting last week in Atikokan. Deb Ward, who represented the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce at the meeting, said […]
Even though Natalie MacMaster was the first to perform in the new Townshend Theatre, she didn’t receive the first standing ovations in the facility–those were reserved for John Dutton and Carol Lyons. The crowd got to its feet as John Dutton, chair of the community auditorium committee, took the stage […]
The 12th-annual Chamber of Commerce Trade Show showed that the event is still going strong, drawing a good-sized crowd to see a variety of exhibitors last Friday and Saturday.
Two new beach volleyball courts will appear at St. Francis Sports Field this spring after the Town of Fort Frances received permission from the Northwest Catholic District School Board at the board’s meeting here Saturday morning. In an effort to expand the number and type of recreational services offered here, […]
Fort Frances was full of Ontario Provincial Police officers last week, when the annual community services convention was held for the first time in Fort Frances at the Red Dog last Tuesday through Thursday. A gathering of forces from all over the Northwest Region, including Armstrong, Dryden, Fort Frances, Geraldton, […]
