Whether you call it a community service or an environmental crusade, those who participated in cleaning up several hundred feet of Biddeson Creek here last Saturday agreed it was the right thing to do. The Baha’i community of Fort Frances organized the clean-up project as part of Earth Day celebrations. […]
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Anyone who remembers the staircase leading to the downstairs portion of the old Stedman’s building here will get a vivid reminder of the past when they walk into Howarth’s Home Centre these days. Howarth’s is in the process of re-opening the lower level of the store, where plans to showcase […]
Gardens have always been a symbol of life. And now, a local group has come together to organize a “life garden” here as a tribute to organ donors and their families in Rainy River District. The Multiple Organ Retrieval and Exchange (MORE) life garden, which blooms in a Metro Toronto […]
Gardens have always been a symbol of life. And now, a local group has come together to organize a “life garden” here as a tribute to organ donors and their families in Rainy River District. The Multiple Organ Retrieval and Exchange (MORE) life garden, which blooms in a Metro Toronto […]
It’s a workshop for only the best in high school band across Northwestern Ontario–and it was the chance of a lifetime for five local students. Heather Keeler (baritone), Shaunna Cuthbertson (alto sax), Norma Kallstrom (trumpet), Kendra Ogden (trombone), and Jennifer Sinclair (French horn) left Monday morning for “Honour Band,” a […]
The Abitibi-Consolidated mill’s run of more than 6.3 million safe hours since a lost-time incident here came to an end last week after an employee who suffered an injury on the job was forced to be taken off work completely. The “hours worked without a lost time” clock was turned […]
Thirty hours without food. At first glance, it doesn’t seem like much. I mean, if a person sleeps for eight hours a day, that leaves only 22 waking hours to go hungry. Take a nap one day and sleep in, and that number drops below 20. So when Jordan Roy, […]
Young boaters have been targeted as Canada attempts to make its waters safer under a federal government licensing program, effective Jan. 1 of next year. Under the new regulations, everyone under the age of 16 will be required to obtain a licence to operate a motorboat on Canadian waters. The […]
If area residents wish to have a renal dialysis unit in Fort Frances, they’re going to have start writing to the Ministry of Health. That’s the message nephrologist Dr. William McCready and nurse Barbara Adams of the Thunder Bay Regional Dialysis Program had to say to a group of doctors, […]
Those miffed about paying higher municipal taxes this year may be able to do something about it–but it will take some leg work. Legislation is slated to be introduced this spring that would allow taxpayers the right to ask for a referendum on any tax increases, including those imposed by […]
For the fourth time since last October, rates at the Fort Frances Children‘s Complex are going up. By September, the cost of an unsubsidized spot will have increased over 30 percent in a year. Council approved upping the rates for “unsubsidized” spots for residents Monday to $26.50 a day for […]
Allegations of a breach of trust have been levelled against the former Fort Frances-Rainy River Board of Education, prompting an investigation by the anti-rackets branch of the OPP out of Thunder Bay, the Times learned yesterday. Det. Sgt. Lorne Costigan said Tuesday he received a complaint from a local resident, […]
