Next Thursday (June 19) marks the 59th year of the “Strawberry Social”–so be sure to mark your calendars! Head down to the hospital grounds from 1-4 p.m., where the La Verendrye General Hospital Auxiliary will be serving up berries, cake, ice cream, and a beverage for only $4. The fundraiser […]
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Press Release The Town of Fort Frances has declared a state of emergency with regards to the large accumulation of rainfall over the last couple of days. The current saturation of the ground, along with the forecast over the next few days showing more precipitation, prompted Mayor Roy Avis to […]
Staff In other business at Monday night’s regular meeting, town council: •referred a request from Fred Brown Equipment (1987) Ltd., re: a water bill account, to the Operations and Facilities executive committee for its recommendation; •referred a request from Summit Telecom Services, re: Tbaytel’s request for concurrence for a proposed […]
Staff The organizer of the annual mini-king and mini-queen contest is looking at holding the event a little later this year. But whether it happens at all will depend on getting more sponsors. Organizer Melissa Gushulak said this morning that she’s in the process of contacting past sponsors right now, […]
Staff The Town of Fort Frances is asking residents to ensure their sump pumps for their weeping tile systems are not connected to the sanitary sewer system. If they are, they must disconnect them immediately. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown told the Times this morning that as a result […]
Heather Latter With 16 teams already signed up for this year’s “Relay For Life” here, committee co-chair Jennifer Anderson said there’s still time to join in. “We always have room for more,” she stressed. “It’s not too late to put a team in. “If anybody is sitting around thinking that […]
the OPP At 9 a.m., officers of the Rainy River District Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police came upon a washout section of Highway 11 just west of Van Drunen Road in LaVallee Township. Heavy amounts of rain falling overnight have resulted in both lanes of the highway being completely […]
Duane Hicks It all started with a 1936 Ford half-ton pickup back in 1976. Nearly 40 years later, Wayne Salchert’s collection of restored classic cars, trucks, motorcycles, jeeps, and tractors has grown to the point where they have their own town built up around them: “Mud Lake City.” The Devlin […]
Duane Hicks Have you got a film in you? Aboriginal youth will get the opportunity this summer to explore stop-motion animation and video art while making their own one-minute films based on the Seven Sacred Teachings. Award-winning local filmmaker Terril Calder will be at the United Native Friendship Centre here […]
Duane Hicks Former municipal planner Ted Berry is recommending town council hold off on re-zoning property because it is on the portion of the “two-chain” shore allowance which remains in litigation. Resident Al Boivin had applied to the town to re-zone his property, located near the Five-Mile Dock Road, from […]
Duane Hicks The shuttered tourism information centre at the border crossing here hopefully will be open soon as the town works to finalize an agreement with the province to lease the building. Three summer students—Caitlin Hogan, David Loney, and Kaitlyn Chiasson—have been hired to work at the centre to provide […]
Heather Latter It won’t recoup the ones lost when Resolute Forest Products Inc. permanently closed its mill here last month but Angela Ferguson and Brad Olson are hoping to add more than a dozen jobs to the district economy with a medical cannabis production facility they’re in the process of […]
