You’ve heard of hair-raising experiences. Well, you could say what the OPP have planned for the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship next month is a “hair-shaving” one. The stage under the big tent will be knee-deep in hair on Saturday, July 25 when local OPP officers go bald in hopes […]
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Tonight will mark the first high school graduation Lt. Col. Clifford Christian has attended in 51 years. Christian was a grade 13 honours graduate from Fort Frances High School in 1947. He then left town after signing up with the RCMP when he was 21, and served for more than […]
The “Friends of Animals” board is looking to build a shelter here by January that could house unwanted animals until they are placed into homes. The board is just waiting to hear back from the Civic Centre as to how it can proceed. The Planning and Development executive committee will […]
Negotiations between teachers and the local public school board are still ongoing but Education Director Wayne McAndrew said yesterday there shouldn’t be any major changes in next year’s staffing level. McAndrew said the board is looking to maintain about the same number of teachers for 1998-99 as this past school […]
They’re in high demand in the States but the rage for Beanie Babies is swelling over the border into Rainy River District–and it’s bringing in big bucks for the two Fort Frances businesses who sell the stuffed toys. In just 30 minutes Monday afternoon at Tammi’s Flower Garden on Scott […]
If this year’s strawberries are any indication, it looks like there could be a bumper crop of berries here this year–and an early one at that. Blair Lowey of Lowey’s Greenhouse said his U-pick berry patch, which normally isn’t ready until July, has a good couple of weeks on the […]
Learn. Grow. Achieve. That’s the aim of the Rainy River District Business Women’s Network, which formed at the beginning of the year with a goal to provide a forum for business women to share ideas and information, develop and use contacts for moral support and advice, and provide assistance whenever […]
The town’s bylaw department will be keeping a close eye on roller-bladers and skateboarders after a local resident raised concerns over pedestrian safety in the downtown area. It will bring a report back to council at the end of July to see if the wheeled-action on town streets and property […]
The Fort Frances Kiwanis Club has been given an honorable mention for its work running Sunny Cove Camp. The honour officially will be presented July 5 to local Kiwanis rep Gord McTaggart at the International Kiwanis Convention in Montreal. “It’s quite an achievement for our club,” noted secretary Cal Robertson. […]
Wrapping up on Saturday, Safe Kids Week could safely be called a success. Organized by the Rainy River Valley Safety Coalition, along with everyone from Bell Canada to the Ministry of Natural Resources, Safe Kids Week was comprised of a series of events held to stress the importance of safety […]
The town is looking into handicapped access in the downtown area after a study done by the Northern Action Group showed only 21 percent of buildings here are accessible to those in wheelchairs. Of the 137 buildings, which included government, commercial, retail, and legal offices, only 29 were fully accessible, […]
Despite $100,000 in hail damage to its new roofing a month ago, the expansion project at Canada Safeway here is looking good–with completion expected by late fall. “We did sustain hail damage during the May 15 storm, and had some minor setbacks to the new roofing, but it didn’t impact […]
