Duane Hicks Colonization Road in Fort Frances will be keeping its name. The majority of town council voted in favour of receiving local resident Dawson Mihichuk’s request to change the name of the road and taking no further action at its regular meeting Monday night. Mayor Roy Avis, along with […]
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Nicholas Donaldson The United Native Friendship Centre’s food bank received a huge donation last week after a very successful collection campaign by the local BDO Canada office. The donation was presented to the UNFC last Thursday as staff carried the two truckloads of food up a flight of stairs at […]
Nicholas Donaldson Fort Frances High School students will be taking on a classic movie monster with their adaptation of the Gene Wilder/Mel Brooks comedy “Young Frankenstein.” The show opens tomorrow night and runs through Saturday at the Townshend Theatre. Showtime is 7 p.m. each night and tickets, available at Northwoods […]
Staff User fees here will be at least a little higher in 2018. Town council last night agreed to a recommendation from administration to direct all town division managers to affect a 1.5 percent increase to their respective 2018 user fee schedules. This hike is reflective of the Ontario Consumer […]
Staff Town council will vote tonight on a recommendation to take no further action when it comes to changing the name of Colonization Road here. Back in late June, council received a letter from local resident Dawson Mihichuk requesting the town rename Colonization Road as he feels the term “celebrates […]
Staff Everyone knows someone who has donated their time and effort to the community over the years. Now is the time to let the Town of Fort Frances know about it! The town is looking for more nominations for its 30th “Citizen of the Year” award to be given out […]
Press Release The Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board is launching a public education campaign surrounding the issue of homelessness in the district in partnership with the United Native Friendship Centre, Rainy River District Victim Services Program, Salvation Army, and the Women’s Shelter of Hope. The DSSAB will be […]
Duane Hicks At long last, the first refugee family from Iraq should be coming to Fort Frances by mid-November. “They have received information from the Canadian embassy that they will be coming in the middle of November,” Kathy Mueller of the “Families for Families” committee told the Times on Friday. […]
Duane Hicks Tickets now are on sale for “Novemberfest,” the Friends of the Fort Frances Museum’s sixth-annual fundraiser gala slated for Thursday, Nov. 2. Available at the museum and From the Grind Up, they cost $30 each in advance and $35 at the door (if there’s any left). “It’s going […]
Duane Hicks Since 1997, the Riverside Foundation for Health Care has raised more than $11 million for district health care. After Saturday night’s “Making Magic for Health Care” fundraiser at La Place Rendez-Vous, it can add another $36,000 to the total. “We feel that things went very well, and once […]
Here’s some highlights for the Riverside Foundation for Health Care over the past 20 years, starting with its incorporation on Sept. 25, 1997. The founding board of directors included Clare Brunetta, Joan Allison, Doug Anderson, Dave Berry, Larry Cousineau, Jim Gartshore, Jack McTaggart, Irene Meades, Wendy Frattolin, and Paul Brown. […]
Duane Hicks Caribou Coach has suspended its bus service from Fort Frances to Thunder Bay indefinitely–and it likely won’t be coming back. “The bottom line is ridership,” owner Sandy Smith told the Times last Thursday. “We had three people on Tuesday [Oct. 10]. It has been an ongoing thing,” he […]
