Staff The Fort Frances Elder Abuse Awareness Committee will be holding a health and safety workshop for seniors at the local Legion on Monday, June 15, which coincides with World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Committee chair Gerri Yerxa said the workshop will address several important health and safety issues local […]
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Staff Youths wanting to get a taste of what it’s like to work with the local police will have their chance this summer as the Fort Frances OPP is looking to hire three students. Under the Youth in Policing Initiative, the OPP will be hiring two students aged 14-17 for […]
Press Release At their 79th-annual general meeting held May 7-9, more than 200 members of the Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association gathered in Toronto to elect regional directors to its board. The Northwest Catholic District School Board is pleased to announce that vice-chair John Borst was appointed as director at […]
Press Release Robert Zanette and staff from Thunder Bay presented an open house/information session here May 22 in support of the new condo project proposed for the Town of Fort Frances. The session was held at the Civic Centre, and was well-attended. “We are so pleased, we are now planning […]
Rick Neilson “We’re going to build an abattoir,” Steve Loshaw announced to spontaneous applause by the two dozen or so members attending the annual meeting of the Rainy River District Regional Abattoir Inc. at the Barwick Hall on Thursday night. “When we first started this four years ago, Geoff Gillon […]
Peggy Revell They’ve spent the past four years hammering home an anti-tobacco message, but Youth Action Alliances across the province will be shutting down at the end of August following the Ontario government’s decision to end the program’s funding. “I was completely shocked,” Tiffany Whalen, a Northwest YAA senior peer […]
Staff Don’t start building an ark just yet. While water levels on Rainy Lake currently are sitting above the International Rainy Lake Board of Control’s rule curve at the moment, it remains to be seen whether these high levels will stick around for the summer. “Rainy Lake is definitely higher […]
Elisabeth Heslop Mark Bysfield, deputy consul general with the U.S. consulate in Toronto, met with Mayor Roy Avis, several councillors, and members of the local Economic Development Advisory Committee on Monday to discuss the implementation of the new U.S. entry requirements. The meeting was primarily a question-and-answer period about the […]
Elisabeth Heslop Getting a job often is the first thing students returning home from university or finishing up a year of high school think about once summer rolls around. Whether it is pumping gas at Safeway, doling out treats at Dairy Queen, or working in the mill, students usually are […]
Peggy Revell The Rainy River District School Board approved a balanced budget of $42,899,608 for 2009/10 at its regular monthly meeting last night. “I, for one, am quite pleased with the budget and how it worked out,” board chair Dan Belluz said following the presentation by Superintendent of Business Laura […]
Duane Hicks According to customer service guru Tony Alessandra, “Being on par in terms of price and quality only get you into the game. It’s service that wins the game”—a philosophy apparently shared by district businesses that participated in the Rainy River Future Development Corp.’s 2009 Customer Service Challenge. And […]
Staff The Northwestern Health unit has confirmed the first case of H1N1 influenza within the region. Dr. Jim Arthurs, medical officer of health for the health unit, made the announcement yesterday in the H1N1 influenza update for June 1. “The individual has recovered from mild symptoms of the acute illness […]
