Press Release Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. once again will be gauging residents’ satisfaction with its services and facilities through a public survey being conducted from Feb. 22-28. The survey was done last year during the same time period and garnered more than 400 responses from Riverside’s facilities across the […]
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Staff The case of a Fort Frances couple charged with having a deer fence on their property, in contravention of a town bylaw, remains before the court, with March 12 now scheduled either to set a pre-trial date or to dispose of the matter. Marie and Lynwood Anderson made a […]
Press Release The OPP joined other policing organizations last week in celebrating Safer Internet Day—an international effort to raise awareness of the vulnerability of young people on the Internet, e-mail, and cellphones. The OPP marked Safer Internet Day (Feb. 9) with a reminder to parents and young people that the […]
Press Release The Rainy River District School Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Sharla MacKinnon to the position of elementary curriculum coach, effective March 22, 2010. The elementary curriculum coach will work closely with the board’s elementary literacy and numeracy co-ordinators to support the implementation of differentiated instruction, […]
Staff A Mitaanjigamiing First Nation family is in need of support after losing the contents of their home in a fire earlier this month. The fire occurred Feb. 6 around 4:30 p.m. at the home belonging to James Henderson, who lived there along with his nephew, Micah Henderson, said Chief […]
Press Release A new education bursary is being introduced to help newcomers get the local training they need to find a job in their field. The Ontario Bridging Participant Assistance Program will help cover the cost of short-term college and university bridge training programs that are not covered under the […]
Press Release Applications to full-time fall programs at Ontario’s colleges have increased 14 percent this year—significantly higher than the 2.7 percent increase reported by universities. “Increasing numbers of people are seeing the strong, direct link between a college education and a meaningful career,” said Linda Franklin, president and CEO of […]
Duane Hicks Local delegates are en route to the 2010 Bassmaster Classic Outdoors Expo, which runs this Friday to Sunday in Birmingham, Ala., to promote Fort Frances and Rainy Lake as a place not only to visit and fish smallmouth bass, but for those in the fishing industry to do […]
Peggy Revell The provincial government has thrown Family and Children’s Services here a financial lifeline following an announcement Monday of $26.9 million in one-time funding for the dozens of Children’s Aid Societies across the province that are facing funding shortfalls. “The funding we received is one-time mitigation funding, and it […]
Duane Hicks Life has gotten a little easier for Wayne Lundstrom since he met “Sammy.” Lundstrom returned to Fort Frances on Friday after graduating as valedictorian of his class at the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides training facility in Oakville, Ont., bringing with him the two-year-old black Labrador retriever […]
Duane Hicks With the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) slated to take effect July 1, district businesses got a rundown of the myriad of changes that await them at a Canada Revenue Agency information session here last Wednesday evening. Called “The Transition to Harmonized Sales Tax-Information for Businesses,” the session was […]
Duane Hicks District businesses once again were in the spotlight Saturday night during the 14th-annual Bell Business Awards at the Adventure Inn here. West End Motors, a long-time mainstay on the local business scene, was named Business of the Year (16+ employees). “I would say that it’s very nice to […]
