Staff A new online petition is asking Fort Frances council to change the name of Colonization Road here. The petition, which was started yesterday by Dawson Mihichuk on change.org, can be found at bit.ly/2oIb8WP “Colonization Road has put Fort Frances on the map for all the wrong reasons, with national […]
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Press Release The Special Events committee of Riverside Foundation for Health Care is excited to announce its annual spring ladies’ luncheon will be taking place Sunday, May 7 in the Robert Moore School gym. With 2017 being the Foundation’s 20th anniversary in support of local health care, the committee was […]
Staff Angie Redford and Anna Schwartz earned gold medals in the senior division during the Sunset Country regional science fair Saturday at Fort Frances High School. Redford and Schwartz, both representing the Rainy River District School Board, will be heading to the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Regina in May. Their […]
Duane Hicks How might the Town of Fort Frances effectively use the future Rainy Lake Square year-round–and attract both locals and tourists of all demographics to the area? Sixteen Fort Frances High School students in the Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) program participated in a highly-engaging and exciting Innovation, Creativity […]
Nicholas Donaldson The Rainy River Federation of Agriculture’s revitalization of the Rainy River “Ag Day” has been deemed a success. RRFA board member Rick Neilson handled the evaluation sheets filled out by guests and was very happy with the results. He said there was a lot of positive feedback and […]
Press Release Ontario now is accepting applications for the new Ontario Student Assistance Program, which is making tuition free for more than 210,000 students. Premier Kathleen Wynne met with high school students at Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School in Toronto last Wednesday to talk about how the new O.S.A.P. […]
Submitted byBrittany Bowman April 1 often is a day of jokes and trickery. This April Fool’s story, however, is a tale of truth, love, bravery, and, most importantly, family. Tyson Penner was fishing from land on Lake of the Woods like the 17-year-old has done many times before. This particular […]
Staff Fort Frances High School, J.W. Walker School, and Robert Moore School have teamed up to present a “Family Well-Being Night.” It will take place next Wednesday (April 12) from 6-8 p.m. at Fort High. The purpose is to increase awareness surrounding local service providers and the mental health and […]
Duane Hicks If you want a lot in the industrial park in the north end of town, you’d better act fast–there’s not too many left. A look at an up-to-date map of the park shows six town-owned lots that are excavated, backfilled, serviceable, and ready for sale and four others […]
Duane Hicks Think twice before the next time you put an empty pop can in your “blue box.” Instead, you could save it and help out a local service club. The Fort Frances Voyageur Lions Club, with some help from community partners, put out two bins over the weekend–one at […]
Press Release While most Kiwanis Clubs designate their funds and service to their local areas, there have been two major “International Projects.” The first was in the 1990s with the “Iodine Deficiency Disorder,” which involved installing processing plants to add a small amount of iodine to the salt in many […]
Nicholas Donaldson Farmers and others on hand for the Rainy River “Ag Day” on Saturday at the Emo Legion were given a talk that most probably didn’t want to think about. Jacqui Empson Laporte, an environmental specialist for the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, spoke about barn fire […]
