Press Release The Great Backyard Bird Count will be held tomorrow through Monday (Feb. 18-21) Count the birds you see at your bird feeder for 15 minutes on any day of the of the count. Record the highest number of each species seen at any one time. Then go on-line […]
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Melissa Fletcher Fort Frances High School students showed their romantic side on Valentine’s Day this past Monday. The Student Executive Council and Mentoring Committee teamed up to sell the always-popular Valentine’s Day “candygrams”—a festive little note wrapped together with some candies. Students purchased candygrams for their special someone last Thursday […]
Press Release In order to minimize wait times for hip and knee replacement surgery at hospitals in Dryden, Kenora, and Fort Frances, the North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) board has approved $275,280 in additional one-time funding for the regional joint replacement program. The funding collectively will provide 40 […]
Staff The Rainy River Future Development Corp. is asking the Town of Fort Frances and other partner communities to help pay for $4,298 in repairs that have been done to the electronic readerboard located on the mill’s lap building at the border crossing here. The town’s share would be $614—an […]
Peggy Revell Farmers across the district are invited to come out and learn how farming and environmental stewardship can go hand-in-hand at a workshop next month being organized by the Rainy River District Stewardship Council. “We hope that the workshop presents opportunities for mutual learning,” David May, the Ministry of […]
Duane Hicks Council agreed to a new collective agreement with the Fort Frances Professional Fire Fighters Association at Monday night’s council meeting, which includes a 16 percent wage increase over a four-year period, more benefits, and recognition pay. But in a press release issued immediately after the meeting, the Town […]
Duane Hicks Lidkea Optometry was honoured as Business of the Year (1-15 employees) last week at the 15th-annual Bell Business Awards at La Place Rendez-Vous here. “I’m kind of speechless right now. This is absolutely fantastic,” optometrist Dr. Bruce Lidkea said after receiving the award from presenter Deb Emes of […]
Duane Hicks While the Town of Fort Frances is claiming a new collective agreement with the Fort Frances Professional Fire Fighters Association will cost them dearly, the deal is on par with other fire departments in Northern Ontario. The arbitrated award includes a 16 percent wage increase over a four-year […]
Duane Hicks Town council is questioning why the Town of Fort Frances has a higher-than-average number of police officers. At Monday night’s regular meeting, Coun. Ken Perry said he’s done research and determined the national average for police officers in communities is 2.0 officers per 1,000 people, but the ratio […]
Duane Hicks AbitibiBowater signed a deal Friday to sell its interest in its Ontario hydro assets for $300 million, including the hydro dam here in Fort Frances, but the transaction will not affect the 1905 historic power agreement. “It will not impact the historic power agreement. The only thing that […]
Duane Hicks Members of International Association of Machinists Local 771 and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 1744 are fighting AbitibiBowater regarding changes to their pensions which they say they have not agreed to. Union reps are in Thunder Bay this week to begin arbitration regarding the “biomass agreement” struck […]
Duane Hicks Residents and some businesses will see an increase in sewer and water rates in 2011. Town council approved a schedule of rates recommended by the Operations and Facilities executive committee at its regular meeting Monday night, which includes a two percent increase for residential customers. This works out […]
