With opening night rapidly approaching, preparations and rehearsals are intensifying at Fort High these days for the cast and crew of this year’s musical, “Camelot.” Slated to run March 24-26 at the J.A. Mathieu Auditorium, “Camelot” tells the tale of a young man named Lancelot, who steals the heart of […]
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Producing a musical doesn’t just depend on the actors and actresses who are seen on stage. It also takes many people “behind the scenes” to put everything together. Several departments of the high school, including art, technology, music, and special ed., are involved in the production of the upcoming musical, […]
It would mean closing off part of Mowat Avenue and making Church Street one-way for a couple of blocks but local mill manager Jim Gartshore told town council Monday night an off-bridge Canada Customs facility would be the best way to go here. And it could be ready in just […]
The town’s Year 2000 Community Preparedness Committee has established its own subcommittees, Administration and Finance manager Darryl Allan told council Monday night. Since his last report in January, Allan said the “Y2K” group has held two meetings where there has been “free and frank” discussions as to what may happen […]
The recent benefit dinner held by the Fort Frances Lions Club for local six-year-olds Brett Jewell and Darren Vlassoff raised almost $9,000, organizers revealed late last week. Some of the proceeds, netted from ticket sales and the silent and live auctions, went towards expenses incurred by the Jewell family during […]
Parents who would like to see their children educated in French as a first language will want to attend le Conseil scolaire de catholique des Aurores boreales presentation here on March 29. A co-operative with the Northwest Catholic District School Board, the French-language board may be accepting up to 20 […]
The Northwest Catholic District School Board, along with its partners, may be upgrading its telecommunications capabilities soon after the Wide Area Network proposal was approved at Saturday’s regular monthly meeting in Dryden. “We’re really excited about,” enthused Carol-Lynne Oldale, director of education for the local separate board. “We’ve certainly approved […]
A decision last week by the Ontario Court, General Division that confirmed the appointment of retired judges to hear contract disputes under the Hospital Labour Dispute Arbitration Act has sparked groans from hospital workers, who continue stand fast on their right to have mutually-acceptable arbitrators. “We’re not happy,” CUPE Local […]
Concern over the so-called “millennium bug,” or Y2K, means district students could be getting a different–and slightly longer–Christmas break for the 1999-2000 school year. Although the Rainy River District School Board still has to give its final approval, the last day of school tentatively is slated for Thursday, Dec. 23 […]
The OPP “Policing for Results” telephone survey is nearly halfway done, with nine volunteers putting in many hours to help out. “It’s going well. We’re up to 128 surveys completed as of last Friday,” Fort Frances OPP Cst. Mark Boileau noted, adding the target number is around 350. “There’s been […]
Area First Nations youths can find about which career path they might like to follow tomorrow when the Rainy Lake Ojibway Education Authority holds its “1999 Career Symposium” at the Nanicost gym. More than 210 high school students from across the area, including Fort Frances, Rainy River, Lac La Croix, […]
Even with Minnesota now wading into the boundary water rights dispute along with Fort Frances native Harold “Bo” Armstrong and Ranier, Mn. resident Carl Brown, the Canadian government still doesn’t know if it wants to get its feet wet. Local MP Robert Nault’s office confirmed yesterday it had received a […]
