Last week, six area businesses enrolled in the Safe Communities Incentive Program (SCIP) were interviewed about their experience with the program by two private consultants working on behalf of the Workplace Safety Insurance Board. Consultants Nicholas Ignatieff and Debra Nixon were gathering information for the board in order to gauge […]
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I am not a wine drinker. Never have been. To me, wine comes in three varieties–red, white, and bubbly. To add adjectives like “sharp,” “sweet,” or “dry” to describe the wine would be mere shots in the dark for me. But even a complete wine list illiterate like me couldn’t […]
Thanks to a joint effort between the Fort Frances Seniors’ Coalition and the Rainy River District Substance Abuse Prevention (SAP) Team, local seniors can get a free specialized directory of services and resources based on their needs. Called “The Fort Frances Directory of Services and Resources for Seniors,” it will […]
Several students at Fort High are gearing up for an important annual event. Like thousands of other Canadian teens, they will be participating in the 30-Hour Famine. The “famine,” which aims to raise money for World Vision Canada and its projects, will take place at FFHS in mid-April. As the […]
Tourist outfitters who face financial loss due to the cancellation of the spring bear hunt in Ontario have a simple reaction to Natural Resources minister John Snobelen’s compensation package announced late last week–it’s not enough. The province has promised each eligible spring bear hunt operator $250 per hunter who used […]
Grade eight students across Rainy River District are nervous but excited about the big changes they face going into the high school this fall. The present eighth grade classes not only have to cope with a brand new high school but also a new program and curriculum. In the new […]
Ever since Education and Training minister Dave Johnson unveiled the new secondary school curriculum last Thursday, both teacher and student associations across the province have been voicing opinions over it. “The main problem is simply time,” said Andrew Hallikas, president of the local Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, adding his […]
With March Break about to kick in across the district, students aren’t the only ones counting down the hours to their week off school. Teachers also are eyeing up the five-day hiatus–and many plan to make it count for “quality time.” “I’d like to put up my feet and read […]
It may have been a unanimous vote but it wasn’t an easy pitch for Geoff Gillon, community investment manager for the Rainy River Future Development Corp., to get the town to sign on again for 1999. Council agreed Monday to pay the RRFDC $58,000 for regional economic development as it […]
Speaking French was the name of the game at the “Concours d’art oratoire ‘99” last Tuesday at the Emo Inn. In the French Immersion category, which featured three students from St. Francis School, Sarah Busch placed first, followed by Jamie Beadow in second and Jennilee Korzinski third. Meanwhile, Christine Schulzki […]
NorFab Building Components Ltd. of here received a regional business achievement award at the Ontario Global Traders Awards ceremony for Northern Ontario in Sudbury last Wednesday. “We were pleasantly surprised,” said sales manager Brian Hagarty, adding Dave Bourgeault of the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines office here nominated the […]
The ball is now in the court of Abitibi-Consolidated and Boise Cascade, CAO Bill Naturkach said, after meeting with town administration about what it would take to build a new “off-bridge” Canada Customs facility here. Naturkach gave a verbal report to the committee of the whole of council Monday, along […]
