Press Release The Citizens for Backus/AB are honoured to accept a grant of $3,500 from the Marshall N. Knudson Family Community Fund. The funding will be used towards the Youth Art Garden at Backus to help plant and maintain it. The grant will support the purchase of two compost bins, […]
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Press Release The first district chess tournament since 2009 was held at Crossroads School in Devlin back on May 3. Some 58 students attended from Crossroads, S.C.A.P., and Robert Moore School. Each player had five games throughout the tournament, and was ranked according to wins, losses, or draws. The top […]
Duane Hicks “Growing up in a small town such as this gave me such memories of friendship and fun. It’s great to look back and reminisce Fort Frances to me is number one.” The words of a poem written by Ruth Caldwell sum up why it’s no surprise she was […]
Press Release Fort Frances High School student Angie Redford has returned home from the Canada-Wide Science Fair with her second-straight bronze medal-this time with partner Anna Schwartz (home-schooled). The pair captured first place in the Sunset Country Regional Science Fair back in April with their project, “A ‘Major’ Experiment with […]
Kiera KowalskiSummer reporter A recent trend has seen discarded needles popping up all over town and in surrounding municipalities. Community spaces and high-traffic areas are strewn with the pointy objects thrown away by drug users. Sometimes it’s not just a needle here or there but piles at a time, or […]
Duane Hicks After being underserviced for decades, district residents finally will be able to receive culturally-appropriate treatment and medically-supervised detox services closer to home thanks to a new partnership between Fort Frances Tribal Area Health Services and the provincial and federal governments. Called “Mino Ayaa Ta Win” (Helping Ourselves Heal), […]
Submitted byGregory Peters The 4-H United Beef Club, featuring 13 members, held its first meeting of 2017 on Wednesday, May 17 at 7 p.m. Our club leaders this year are Ken and Mary-Ann Haw and Neil and Angela Haw. Our youth leader is Morgan Haw. We opened the meeting by […]
Duane Hicks With Canada Day only 23 days away, local residents can start getting fired up about this year’s celebrations. Fun in the Sun committee chair Cynthia Donald said yesterday that plans are shaping up nicely, with something new this year being “key log rolling,” which features 65-pound synthetic logs. […]
Duane Hicks The Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board had a chance to show off newly-renovated, accessibility-friendly apartments at Green Manor here last Thursday. Local contractor Ed Kaun & Sons made two one-bedroom units more accessible, as well as converted three one-bedroom units into a pair of two-bedroom accessible […]
Nicholas Donaldson Sage Morin visited Fort Frances High School last Thursday morning to speak with students about her tragic story involving the death of her son and the changes she wants to drunk-driving laws. On May 19, 2013, Morin’s two-year-old son, Geo Mounsef, was struck and killed by a vehicle […]
Press Release Ontario is increasing access to mental health and addictions services for First Nations’ communities in Northwestern Ontario with a new mental health and addictions wellness centre in Fort Frances. In partnership with the federal government, the province is investing in a new program called Mino Ayaa Ta Win […]
Nicholas Donaldson The Rainy River District School Board will hold its last regular meeting of the 2016-17 school year tonight at 7 p.m. in the Education Centre here. Trustees will vote to approve the Strategic Plans Goals for 2017-22, a required plan that is reviewed annually and provides direction to […]
