Plaza Lanes owner/manager Dino Morelli is hoping to throw a strike as part of the “Bowling for Miracles” promotion to benefit young patients at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. The local bowling alley is offering bowlers the chance to put their name in a draw for one of […]
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After a three-week study tour in Mexico earlier this year, four local Confederation College students are back home and sharing experiences about a trip that was one of the best times of their lives. International Business students Lori Godin, Angela Halvorsen, Anita Barker, and Patti Jorgensen (along with Prof. Julie […]
The Northwestern Health Unit said the threat of closure has passed after monthly payments from area municipalities continue to flow in for 1998. For April, only six of the 22 municipalities have refused to pay–all in the Kenora District. And Dr. Pete Sarsfield, chief medical officer of health, said he’s […]
If the cost of building the “multi-use” facility gets too high, the local public school board may have to pull funds out of other areas of its budget to cover them. That’s the message education director Wayne McAndrew brought back to trustees last night during the Rainy River District School […]
Organizers of the “Northern Do-it center Home and Trade Show ’98” are busy preparing for the fifth-annual event slated April 23-25 at Memorial Arena here. The show will appeal to the homeowner in as many ways as one can imagine, said Robin Roper, a salesman for the Do-it center and […]
Time and relationships. It’s the two elements director Naomi Woods said that makes “On Golden Pond” a show people around the world can appreciate. Fort Frances Little Theatre will wrap up its 1997-98 season by staging this play April 16-19 at La Place Rendez-Vous. Dr. Ted Jablonski and Joyce Meyers […]
The final numbers are in from the province and Fort Frances will use these figures–not those billed by the agencies–to decide how much municipal taxpayers will be paying for the “downloaded” services in 1998. And if the agencies’ calculations are different, the town said the agencies will have to battle […]
Municipalities may be scrambling with the downloading of services now but some are looking to the turn of the century when the province’s special circumstances funds run out. That $75-million provincial fund is in place for 1998 and ’99 only. After that, said Janis Tomkinson with the Ministry of Finance’s […]
It’s been hacked numerous times already but tonight the committee of the whole will draw the purse strings even tighter as it looks to find another $685,000 in savings from the town’s proposed 1998 budget. “That’s still to be achieved to reach a zero tax increase,” CAO Bill Naturkach noted […]
A group of local entrepreneurs stepped in to take the reins of the local abattoir project at last night’s meeting in Barwick, keeping alive the hopes of having a kill-plant built in the district. Telford Advent, chair of the abattoir steering committee, said the group, who are remaining anonymous so […]
District municipalities are still trying to figure out just what impact the province’s new download numbers will have on their 1998 budgets–and local taxes. While all agree the numbers have changed, no one is quite sure what the final impact will be. But some are optimistic the “download” could come […]
It was a near-speechless Christine Carpenter who accepted the Bill Gibson Memorial Award on Friday night at the Rainy River Federation of Agriculture’s annual spring dinner and dance in the Barwick Hall. Carpenter wasn’t any more talkative when contacted by the Times yesterday. “It was a big surprise and we […]
