Ken and Joanne White of Fort Frances won the $500 up for grabs on Valentine’s Day in the Rainy River District Mutual Aid Association’s weekly cash calendar draw. Winning $30 for Feb. 12-18 were David Black (Fort Frances), Blake Yatchuk (Fort Frances), Shaunna Sekulich (Atikokan), Craig McKinnon (Fort Frances), Rebecca […]
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Duane Hicks Town council is considering reducing hours of operation at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre in order to trim its operating budget At its budget meeting yesterday, council began weighing whether to reduce library hours from 59 hours per week to 54 in order to save $26,320. […]
Press Release On Jan. 31, members of the Fort Frances Fire & Rescue Service responded to a motor-vehicle crash here involving two trucks. Gavin Payne and Wayne Riches utilized a Hurst eDRAULIC combination tool to remove the driver’s side door of a truck where a person was trapped. Fort Frances […]
Robin McCormickDevlin correspondent Every year, the Township of La Vallee nominates a local individual as “Senior of the Year.” But this year, the township decided to take a different approach and instead ask residents to nominate someone they think should receive the award. The “Senior of the Year” has to […]
Duane Hicks The Town of Fort Frances will be hiring a sixth full-time firefighter. Council decided yesterday afternoon to keep $75,444 in its 2017 operating budget to hire a firefighter starting April 1. While several members of council expressed concern at the Feb. 6 budget meeting that the town had […]
Falls JournalFrom theInternational Former Boise Cascade chairman and chief executive officer John B. Fery has died following complications from acute leukemia. Surrounded by family, Fery passed away at his California home on Feb. 11, just days before his 87th birthday. According to a news release, Fery was perhaps best known […]
Staff Tying into the spirit of Canada’s 150th birthday, “Then and Now” will be the theme of the 2017 spring art exhibit at the Fine Line Art Gallery here. Interested artists can do anything they want as long as it highlights something old and something new, said Fine Line co-op […]
Duane Hicks With the Riverside Foundation for Health Care celebrating its 20th year, the local charity is requesting public feedback about how it’s doing and how it can improve moving forward. An open house was held at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre on Monday, with one to follow […]
Duane Hicks The Town of Fort Frances will be receiving $55,000 from the Moffat Family Fund this year to redistribute to local worthwhile causes, and is urging groups to submit applications to get a share of the pot. Applications for 2017 are available at the Civic Centre and online at […]
Staff A recent Valentine cookie charity campaign by Tess’ Kitchen here has raised $800 for two good causes. Tess Coish, who had been taking orders for heart-shaped Valentine cookies for $1 each, told the Times she collected $748 in sales. She also received some extra money people gave as tips. […]
Press Release Before the World Wide Web, there was the World Day of Prayer–an international event that has been connecting people in a meaningful way for almost a century. Despite being planned years in advance, World Day of Prayer services have a remarkable record for anticipating major events, like the […]
Duane Hicks The executive director of the Rainy River District Women’s Shelter of Hope is troubled by a Feb. 3 Globe & Mail article indicating Canadian police dismiss an average of one out of every five sexual assault reports as unfounded. But Donna Kroocmo was more shocked to find the […]
