Heather Latter The new “Kiss ’N Ride” program—implemented last week at J.W. Walker, Robert Moore, and St. Francis here—is being hailed as a success by the Fort Frances Traffic Safety Committee, which initiated it. “We’re 99 percent there,” noted local OPP Cst. Anne McCoy. “The majority of people responded with […]
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Staff The “Best Buddies” program, which was resurrected at Fort High back in 2011, will receive the “Recognition of Excellence” from the Rainy River District School Board at its regular monthly meeting tonight. Previously spearheaded by Community Living Fort Frances and District, Fort High students and staff revitalized the program […]
Staff Officers of the Rainy River District detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police have located a female youth first reported missing last Thursday. Cree Jack-Roulette, 16, of Rainy River has been located at a residence on Couchiching First Nation. She is safe and sound. Police had issued a media release […]
Staff Due to a scheduled power outage on Sunday, Sept. 8, a two-day youth song-writing workshop for youths now will be held on just the one day—Saturday, Sept. 7. The workshop, to be conducted by local musician and educator Shannon Darby, will run from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. There will be […]
Staff About 60 people attended a two-day elder abuse workshop, held by Fort Frances Tribal Area Health Services’ Behavioural Health Services Unit, that wrapped up this afternoon at the Métis Hall here. Lee Stones, who has given presentations on this topic in the past, lead the conference from 9 a.m.-4 […]
Joey Payeur Kraft isn’t finished with its generosity toward Fort Frances just yet. The company said yesterday it plans to cover the roughly $600 cost of purchasing water for the crowd at the Sorting Gap Marina for Sunday’s festivities as part of the “Kraft Celebration Tour” stop here. The Fort […]
Staff The Fort Frances Community Garden committee is being allowed to keep its existing fence, with the option to build a permanent one down the road once funding becomes available. This would be done under the guidance of the town’s bylaw department. Town council gave the nod during its regular […]
Duane HicksJoey Payeur The final stop of this year’s “Kraft Celebration Tour” was such an attraction that people were spilling into Fort Frances from out of town, out of province—and even from across the Atlantic. Fort Frances earned the honour after amassing 518,082 online votes to defeat Dryden in a […]
Staff With rats continuing to be a problem for some local residents, the public is being urged to report their rodent run-ins with the town. Mayor Roy Avis said as far as he’s aware, nothing about rats has been reported to him or the town’s animal control staff. “We get […]
Duane Hicks The vacant Ontario Travel Information Centre here hopefully will be opened as a joint venture next spring. Regional economic developer Geoff Gillon told town council Monday night that the Rainy River Future Development Corp. continues to be in contact with Infrastructure Ontario regarding the sale of the building. […]
Duane Hicks With the Rainy River Gold Project north of Barwick anticipated to enter the construction phase next year, town council is letting Rainy River Resources know it wants to work with company in any way it can. Kyle Stanfield, the company’s vice-president of environment and sustainability, told council Monday […]
Staff Motorists irked by the detour at Central Avenue can rest easy—the work on Second Street East is progressing on schedule. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown told town council last night that the job has to be done by Sept. 13—but quite possibly the intersection will be re-opened by […]
