It’s time to bring the creative light out from under a bushel. That’s the message the Northwestern Ontario Writers’ Workshop is sending out as it looks beyond Thunder Bay to encourage and support a strong writing voice throughout the northwest. And it’s bringing that voice to Fort Frances for the […]
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Labour Day will be packed with activities here this year thanks to the Fort Frances and District Labour Council, which has been planning for the Sept. 7 event for almost a month. The long weekend will kick off with a free pancake breakfast Saturday from 8-10:30 a.m. at Sister Kennedy […]
The local Terry Fox Run is set to take off Sunday, Sept. 20 from La Place Rendez-Vous, giving people a little less than three weeks to gather their pledges. Run organizer Steve Maki is hoping to break $13,000 in pledges this year, beating last year’s total (just over $9,000) by […]
Two local moms may have made a bit of history on St. Andrew’s Ward at La Verendrye hospital after giving birth to twins there on the same day. The maternity unit welcomed its newest twosomes–identical twin brothers, Tanner and Austin, born to Lisa and John Angus, and twin brother and […]
The impact of forest fires and clear-cut logging practices in and around Quetico Provincial Park was the focus of an environmental study headed up this summer by the Quetico Foundation, in partnership with the University of Waterloo and the Ministry of Natural Resources. The project, which wrapped up Aug. 20, […]
They may not be eating bannock and beef jerky every day as the voyageurs once did but 11 students and their teacher from Lakehead University are getting a taste of the gruelling physical labour they must have endured. The group, which is re-tracing a 400-km portion of the voyageur route […]
It still has to be ratified but the tentative agreement reached last week between Ontario’s college faculty and its management definitely struck a chord of relief at Confederation College. Roy Murray, president of Confederation College and co-chair of the college management’s bargaining unit, said Friday’s deal is a double relief […]
More than 900 head of cattle are set to go through the auction ring Saturday at the Stratton sales yard during the Rainy River Cattleman Association’s fall yearling sale. RRCA president Peter Spuzak said yesterday that sales yard manager Russell Richards was still rounding up cattle. “I talked to Russell […]
Fort Frances town councillors still don’t have any answers regarding the rising bill on the auditorium project after a last-minute phone call changed plans to meet with their “multi-use” partners yesterday afternoon. Councillors had planned to meet with the local public school board and Confederation College at 2 p.m. But […]
The puck should be dropped in the new indoor ice facility here in mid-November, 1999, with the town and “Ice for Kids” reps to look at the preliminary designs and cost estimates at a meeting Sept. 8. Construction on the 1,000-seat facility is slated to start next spring to avoid […]
Security has been stepped up at the Abitibi-Consolidated mill here after the striking Communications, Energy and Papermakers union turned up the heat on the picket lines last week. Mill manager Jim Gartshore said surveillance cameras were being used to keep an eye on picket-line activity. “We’ve got increased activity on […]
Classes started Monday at Confederation College here but just how long they keep going depends on how the union of Ontario college professors react to yesterday’s contract offer. Local campus manager Don Lovisa said the professors will be taking a final vote early in September on whether to accept the […]
