See Spot. See Spot Run–and play guitar, get signed, record a top 40 single, and become famous. Well, almost. “See Spot Run,” a familiar rock band to many Fort Frances residents, stopped in at the Rainy Lake one more time last week to promote their latest CD, “Ten Stories High.” […]
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Rainy River District has been named one of 10 safe communities across the country, and will be handed the prestigious title officially at a ceremony here Nov. 13. And that has opened up funding doors–to the tune of $25,000 over two years from the Safe Communities Foundation–for the Rainy River […]
“Go get a mammogram” is the one message breast cancer survivor Bonnie Thomson of Winnipeg hopes to get across to women when she speaks at the annual “Luncheon of Hope” here Saturday. “If I could affect just one person, I would be thrilled,” stressed Thomson, 53, in a phone interview […]
Parents who relied on either of the two school systems or Fort Frances Nursery School Inc. to look after their children during the day will suddenly find there’s a grave shortage of day care in town if the teachers go on strike. Fort Frances Nursery School, located in Robert Moore […]
Two forums featuring the 14 candidates seeking seats on Fort Frances town council are slated the week before the Nov. 10 municipal election. The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce plans to hold its forum Nov. 3 from 7-10 p.m. at the Civic Centre while the Fort Frances and District Labour […]
About 500 people were on hand to watch “the boys whooping it up at the Malamute Saloon” here Friday night. Actually, the Malamute Saloon was really the J.A. Mathieu Auditorium and those on hand were there to catch “tour de Fort’s” season-opening performance, “The Shooting of Dan McGrew.” Based on […]
An area services board proposal, including representation by population, will be going to the province within the next few days from the Rainy River District Municipal Association. About two-thirds of the 30 district reps at a special meeting of the RRDMA last night at the Civic Centre voted in favour […]
Fort Frances may not have been among the five communities to win the first-ever “Caring Community” award from the Trillium Foundation but members of the “Tomorrow” committee here are still calling the town a winner. The town made the short-list of 26 finalists for the award, which includes a $20,000 […]
“Learning Not to Burn” is an fire safety and prevention message local volunteer firefighter Tyler Moffitt has talked a lot about with area school children over the past few years–and one he’s not about to quit delivering. And this dedication to fire prevention and public education also acted in his […]
The community auditorium committee is aiming to exceed the $570,000 fundraising commitment it made to Fort Frances town council earlier this year. Committee co-chairman John Dutton said last week they wanted to raise an extra $100,000 to cover the cost of theatre equipment, such as sound, lights, curtains, rigging, and […]
Concern over representation has prompted the Rainy River District Municipal Association to call a special meeting Oct. 21 at the Civic Centre here to finalize its proposal for an area services board. Rainy River Mayor Gord Armstrong, chairman of the working group putting together the proposal, is hoping the group […]
The figures are in but municipalities won’t find out what the “Who Does What” panel recommendations will mean to their tax bills until more number-crunching is done. In Fort Frances, managers are going through the 96-page document from the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing that arrived at the Civic […]
