Staff From the Grind Up was named Business of the Year last night during the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s 19th-annual Tbaytel business awards gala at La Place Rendez-Vous. The other nominees in this category were The Harbourage Restaurant, Lowey’s Greenhouse & Market Garden, and Copper River Inn. From the […]
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Heather Latter Shooniyaa Wa-Biitong held the grand-opening of its Anokiiwin office last Thursday with an open house for people to check out its new location at the corner of Mowat Avenue and Church Street. “We had a number of employers and job-seekers stop in,” said Anokiiwin manager Dana Bridgeman Cross. […]
Duane Hicks A local man was honoured with a Medal of Bravery at a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Friday. Kyle Griffiths—recognized for his act of bravery in hazardous circumstances by Gov. Gen. David Johnston—was among 40 recipients so honoured. “I felt overwhelmed at first,” admitted Griffiths, who […]
Duane Hicks A group of local volunteers is trying to get new tennis courts built in Fort Frances. Committee chair Rick Wiedenhoeft asked town council Monday night to keep the $112,000 currently earmarked for tennis courts in this year’s municipal budget. The former councillor said ever since the new library […]
Staff Town council will receive a presentation about a local tennis court project at tonight’s regular meeting. Former councillor Rick Wiedenhoeft, who was an advocate for fitness during his 11 years on council, not to mention his years as a Fort High phys. ed. teacher and athletic director, will make […]
Joey Payeur It took the whole first period, and then a goal against midway through the second, for the Rainy River Community College Voyageurs’ women’s hockey team to emerge from their slumber. The Michigan State Spartans should have let them sleep. Hailey Clendenning notched the game-winning goal short-handed, while fellow […]
Staff Local resident Kyle Andrew Griffiths will receive a Medal of Bravery at a ceremony tomorrow in Ottawa. On June 5, 2012, Griffiths braved intense heat and smoke to pull an unconscious man from a burning vehicle in Emo. The car had been hit by a train at a railway […]
Heather Latter Two former residents are proving themselves as film-makers after their latest project—a 32-minute short film entitled “Where’s Barry?”—recently was chosen for two film festivals. “We’ve exceed our goal [with the film] at this point,” enthused Roy Tighe, who created the comedy with Graeme Morgan, as well as their […]
Staff With voting closed for the 19th-annual business awards, nominees now will have to wait until the gala next Thursday (March 12) to find out who won. The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce tried out a new means of voting this year—letting the public vote online—and it appears to have […]
Staff With the town having received reports of frozen service lines over the past week, Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown again is urging those who have had a history of such problems to “bleed” their taps. Brown told council Monday night there’s been 10 reports of residential lines freezing […]
Staff The “Friends of the Fort Frances Museum” is looking for volunteers to help run kids’ activities during “Snoasis 3: We Are Family.” Slated for Saturday, March 21, the event will run from noon-2 p.m. at the Lions Park and over in the public library parking lot. But in an […]
Staff Donald Young School in Emo will receive the Rainy River District School Board’s Recognition of Excellence tonight for last April’s “Day of Pink” there. Using the theme “Think Pink—Erase Bullying,” DYS staff and students were encouraged to wear pink. An assembly also was held in the morning to kick-off […]
