Fort Frances certainly isn’t the only place where an Abitibi-Consolidated mill is taking downtime over the Christmas holidays, noted Susan Rogers, vice-president of corporate communications in Montreal. Local workers learned late last week that the mill here will shut down Wednesday, Dec. 23 at the end of the night shift […]
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Fort Frances needs to find a little more than $1.4 million in its overall budget to avoid a property tax hike in 1999. But the $64,000 question is where? The committee of the whole of council has now met with the town’s four department managers and its economic development advisor […]
With another $26,000 pledged in the last two weeks, the Rainy River hospital’s “Buy a brick, build it quick” campaign topped $180,500 as of last Thursday. The campaign is aiming to raise $300,000 by the Dec. 31 target deadline. Ken Johnston, editor of the Rainy River Record and the advertising […]
Organizers of “A Magical Christmas House and Light Tour” say ticket sales are going over well, with even more expected to be sold right up until the event Sunday. The tour, slated to run from 5-8 p.m. and being staged by the Riverside Foundation for Health Care as a fundraiser, […]
The course of true love never did run smooth . . . but Muskie Theatre’s performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” did. Performed last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in the auditorium at Knox United Church, the three shows went quite well. There was a lot of laughter and applause at […]
About 50 people, representing 23 district businesses which deal in propane-related goods, are that much wiser as to its safe use after taking a four-hour training course at Confederation College here last week. The businesses are team members of the Safe Communities Incentive Program (SCIP), which sponsored the course in […]
At least a dozen local sub-contractors hired by Malcom Construction Ltd. of Winnipeg to work on Safeway’s $6.8-million expansion project may get some answers at a meeting here next week as to when they will get paid. The sub-contractors haven’t seen any money from the the Winnipeg-based company since before […]
The town is keeping a tight lid on the new single ice surface set to be built adjacent to Memorial Arena and the Sportsplex in order to keep the price tag as low as possible, Mayor Glenn Witherspoon said yesterday afternoon. The final stamp of approval was given to the […]
Grade three students here scored within two or three percent of the provincial average during the standardized testing conducted last May, teacher Sylvia Parker told public school board trustees during their regular meeting last night. Parker, who works with curriculum services in Atikokan, said 79 percent of the board’s students […]
Preliminary results tallied from the fourth-annual “Spirit of Christmas” fundraiser here Sunday night indicate at least $16,000 was raised–a jump of nearly $4,000 over last year. And that has organizers from the Fort Frances unit of the Canadian Cancer Society, which hosted the popular event, sporting big grins. “Last year’s […]
If you’ve ever wanted to clown around in church, then you can’t miss this. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church is opening its doors for a Christmas service Sunday, Dec. 13 at 6:30 p.m. conducted by a team of clowns. That’s right–clowns. Rev. Mary Whitson said the clown team, from the Evangelical […]
More than 100 shoppers waited for their chance to get a hold of some bargains Sunday morning as Safeway staff and dignitaries cut the ribbon to officially re-open the expanded store here. The turnout for the brief ceremony came as a pleasant surprise to store manager Paul Miller, whose staff […]
