He’s what some might call the fastest guitar player in North America. Oscar Lopez will be appearing at La Place Rendez-Vous tomorrow at 8 p.m. as a “tour de Fort” special concert attraction, sponsored by Rainy Lake Realty. Lopez played in Fort Frances once before, with folk singer James Keelaghan, […]
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The Rainy River Future Development Corp. will be lobbying area municipal leaders to give the nod to a $7 per capita fee for economic development during the Rainy River District Municipal Association’s annual meeting here Saturday. If so, the federal government will match municipal dollars up to $100,000. Rainy River, […]
People who shop at Canadian Tire here are being urged to “tell it like it is” to new owner Ray Engelbertink. And that means putting most of his own ideas on hold until he takes into account what his staff and clientele have to say. “Staff and customers are the […]
Town council is taking a second look at whether it should implement a $20 launch fee during the annual bass fishing tournament here–and who would foot the bill if it was put in place. In a plea to council Monday night, organizers of the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship asked […]
It’s the one night of the year when everyone gets to be Scottish. Robert Burns’ Night, set aside to honour Scotland’s most famous poet, goes Friday at La Place Rendez-Vous, with cocktails at 6 p.m. and dinner at seven. Tickets, which cost $35 each, are available at McTaggart’s, the Rendez-Vous, […]
The town may be able to access provincial funding for a second indoor ice surface here. The catch is it has to be a new double-rink facility. Mayor Glenn Witherspoon said the Northern Heritage Fund Corp. announced last week it would include double-rink ice surfaces for those communities looking to […]
Starting today, students at St. Francis School and Onegaming School will be partners in a nationwide motivational reading program–endorsed by the world’s fastest man–to help raise money for multiple sclerosis. “What better way to help kids develop literacy, imagination and increase comprehension than to encourage the love of reading?” said […]
The Rainy River Valley Safety Coalition is gearing up for its next goal–to have the district listed as a “safe community” with the World Health Organization by the year 2000. Coalition rep Doug Langtry said he’s aiming to have the application off by the end of the month, noting the […]
It was a matter of being in the right place at the right time. Or in Joan Fenner’s case, being somewhere else at the right time. The Montreal woman and her two-year-old son, Ian, came to Fort Frances on Jan. 2 to celebrate Ukrainian Christmas with her parents, Nick and […]
For Stephanie Carroll and her family, the battle is almost over. The eight-year-old Fort Frances girl has made it through eight chemotherapy sessions and two surgeries in her fight against cancer. Just one more surgery–a bloodstem transplant–is left. After that, her cancer should stay in remission. “We’re hoping,” noted Carroll’s […]
To say “The Arrogant Worms” are an off-the-wall kind of group is a bit of an understatement. Adjectives like zany, wild, even crazy would describe their onstage antics to a T. But a crowd of almost 400 people fell for their act hook, line and sinker last Wednesday night as […]
If you’ve ever had somebody tell you to “paddle your own canoe,” it mostly likely was a blunt piece of advice on how to live your life. But for Owen Johnston and Guy Donaldson, the old adage means putting their homemade cedar-strip canoes to glide on Rainy Lake. Johnston, an […]
