It will be a battle of stomach endurance when four district residents get ready to rumble–a la mode–during the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market pie-eating showdown this Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon. Emo Reeve Brian Reid, Canadian Tire manager Ray Engelbertink, Times salesman Hugh McTaggart, and Times reporter Mark Elliott–originally […]
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After more than $1 million in renovations, the float plane that flipped over on Lakeland Bay just over a year ago took to the air again last Thursday. The de Havilland single-Otter C-GUTL is used mainly to fly people and supplies to remote lodges. And the plane completed two trips […]
Both students and teachers are in for some changes due to the revised curriculum being implemented in elementary and secondary schools across the province come September. But the Rainy River District School Board announced a new measure to make that change a little easier at its regular monthly meeting here […]
About 60 people raised more than $5,300 in the seventh-annual “Hip Hip Hooray” walk Sunday, making it the most successful one yet since its inception here in 1993. Proceeds from the walk go to the Canadian Orthopedic Foundation. Jenny Wonfor, who chaired the local walk committee, said Monday she couldn’t […]
Ken Wickstrom, past president of the Fort Frances Rotary Club, was named a Paul Harris Fellow for his contributions to the Rotary Foundation in excess of $1,000 (U.S.) The Rotary Foundation funds humanitarian relief projects around the world. Wickstrom himself was part of a five-week group study exchange program, sponsored […]
The sun was shining, the horses were happy to get out of the stable and run, and the riders were pumped. All in all, it was a perfect day Saturday for the Northern Ontario Therapeutic Riding Association’s fourth-annual “Freedom Ride” starting at Trail’s End Riding Stable in Devlin. The 16 […]
Almost 400 people watched Stephanie Gartshore and her boyfriend, Steve Baker, as they strolled down the runway arm-in-arm in the J.A. Mathieu Auditorium. With each step, they became a piece of long-standing Fort Frances tradition known as the “Grand March”–a heritage that saw her parents walk those same steps, and […]
Six children from Belarus once again will be lucky enough to visit the Rainy River District come July as four host families decided to take the youths in for a second year in a row. “They are scheduled to come back on July 6,” enthused Cathy Zin, who along with […]
One local student is getting ready to embark on a voyage of discovery this summer after qualifying for an exclusive educational experience with the Shad Valley program. The two-phase program will see Amy Gill, a grade 11 student at Fort High, spend four weeks at one of nine Canadian universities […]
The question wasn’t how fast but how far? When Fort High teacher Gord Witherspoon brought his Grade 11 Transport Technology class down to Brainerd, Mn. last week to compete in the Super Mileage Challenge, he had confidence in them. But he had no idea they would do so well. “We […]
David Barron met his first captive audience last week as the published author/illustrator of a children’s book, “The Adventures of Bob and Red,” presented and read the story to a grade three/four class at Robert Moore School here. The book, which the Barwick youth, now 11, wrote when he was […]
The U.S. government has taken action regarding an ongoing dispute between Minnesota and Ontario over fishing restrictions in place on Rainy River and Lake of the Woods. Betty Wires, Lake of the Woods supervisor for the Ministry of Natural Resources, said it appears the state has opted to ignore the […]
