Sarah Pruys After five successful years in Kenora, Dryden, and Sioux Lookout, the BizKids Camp made its inaugural appearance in Fort Frances last week to give children an opportunity to learn the skills needed to be successful in today’s economy. Run by the Northwest Business Centre, the camp for children […]
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Heather Latter On the heels of returning from a volunteer trip to Ecuador, local teen Dexter Fichuk is eager to continue his efforts to help others. The Grade 12 student will remain head of the Fort Frances Mob(ilizers) group at Fort High this year—a group that spreads the “Me to […]
Sarah Pruys Walking into the loft studio at the Little Beaver Cultural Centre here, you enter a different world filled with glittery and feather-filled paper cranes, massive colourful canvases, cans of paint, and shelves of supplies, along with 12 eager youngsters working hard at their own mural under the supervision […]
Duane Hicks With the province proposing to consolidate Local Distribution Companies (LDCs), the Fort Frances Power Corp. is being proactive to make sure the local utility remains as it is—highly-efficient and delivering some of the lowest rates anywhere in Ontario. At its regular meeting last week, town council authorized the […]
Sarah Pruys Twenty singers competed in “Quest for the Best” last night but it was cousins Brittany Hayes, 23, and Larissa Desrosiers, 16, who battled it out in a sing-off for the grand prize. Singing “Alone” by Heart, which earlier had been divided up into two parts, it was Hayes […]
Staff A reminder there will be a power outage in Fort Frances and surrounding area this Sunday (July 29). The outage is expected to be brief within the Town of Fort Frances, with the Fort Frances Power Corp. reporting power to its system will be interrupted from about 8:30-8:45 a.m. […]
Press Release The “Pulling for Peace” organizing committee announced Tuesday it had completed a weather emergency contingency plan for future international tugs-of-war should a storm arise suddenly as one did at 5 p.m. on July 2 along the U.S./Canada border. The storm hit just before the 2012 tug was to […]
Staff With Highway 602 just past Bone Road now repaired where the roadway collapsed last year, work has begun on a second section where it passes over a creek known as the Rainy River tributary. Dorothy Sharp, of T&K Sharp Construction, said the deteriorating culvert under the road needed to […]
Staff Due to upgrades at the pump station, the Portage Avenue underpass will be closed temporarily to non-emergency vehicular traffic on both July 31 and Aug. 1 from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. During this time, Makkinga Contracting will be installing a new electrical service to the pump station, which will require […]
Jessica Smith The inking of a much-anticipated power purchase contract has ended almost two years of uncertainty around the future of the Atikokan Generating Station. The 10-year agreement between Ontario Power Generation and the Ontario Power Authority—announced last Thursday in Thunder Bay by Thunder Bay-Atikokan MPP Bill Mauro—means the conversion […]
Staff With a successful second growing season well underway, the Fort Frances Community Garden committee is making several requests to town council, including putting up fences to keep out deer. In a letter to council from committee member Krista Nielson, she noted “one of the frustrations that gardeners are dealing […]
the NDP TORONTO–Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath and Aboriginal Affairs critic Sarah Campbell, MPP for Kenora-Rainy River, last week issued the following statement on the re-election of Shawn Atleo as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN): “We extend our sincere congratulations to Chief Atleo. Alongside our caucus, […]
