Riverside Health Care in conjunction with the Northwestern Health Unit has declared a gastroenteritis outbreak at Rainycrest Long Term Care Home. All admissions, transfers, discharges and social activities have been cancelled until further notice.Visitors are restricted to family members and caregivers only. The health unit is urging people to stay […]
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Sam Odrowski photo Blayne Orr carefully snipped off a couple tree branches by the Sorting Gap Marina during the community tree care workshop hosted by the Fort Frances Museum and Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry on Saturday afternoon. Attendees used a variety of tree care tools to trim and […]
Ken Kellar Ryleigh Tucker showed off the yarn creation she made at “Tween Club” at the Fort Frances Library Technology Centre yesterday. The club used yards of yarn, cardboard discs and glue to create pom-poms and other fibrous figures. The “Tween Club” meets at the library each Monday from 4-5 […]
Submitted Mayor June Caul did a stint behind bars on Saturday during the Fort Frances Voyageur Lions’ annual “Bail or Jail” fundraiser at the Fort Frances Curling Club, in conjunction with the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s Business and Community Expo. Mayor Caul was serving hard time after being charged […]
Sam Odrowski Blayne Orr carefully snipped off a couple tree branches by the Sorting Gap Marina during the community tree care workshop hosted by the Fort Frances Museum and Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry on Saturday afternoon. Attendees used a variety of tree care tools to trim and remove […]
Ken Kellar Ryleigh Tucker showed off the yarn creation she made at “Tween Club” at the Fort Frances Library Technology Centre yesterday. The club used yards of yarn, cardboard discs and glue to create pom-poms and other fibrous figures. The “Tween Club” meets at the library each Monday from 4-5 […]
Sam Odrowski The Fort Frances Choraliers brought the sweet sounds of Easter-themed songs to a large group of residents at Rainycrest’s Hallett Hall on Saturday afternoon. The theme of this year’s Easter cantana was “Hope Alive in Me,” and following the Rainycrest performance, the choraliers sung at the Zion Lutheran […]
Sam Odrowski Mrs. Sieders’ and Mrs. Wood’s classes at St. Michaels School shared some smiles last Thursday on “Career Day” where students throughout the school wore outfits depicting the jobs they want to work when they grow up. Some students dressed up as professional hockey players while others put on […]
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If Fido and Spot are getting restless this week, there’s a “paw-some” opportunity coming up to get them out and active while at the same time helping someone in need. The Pet Valu Walk for Dog Guides, held in support of the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guide program, is […]
The Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Student pranksters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have struck again, this time drawing inspiration from America’s hottest movie. MIT students over the weekend draped the university’s signature Great Dome with a giant cloth version of Captain America’s red, white and blue shield. Their efforts drew […]
The Canadian PressColin Perkel TORONTO — Treatment of a group of psychiatric patients detained at an Ontario facility decades ago amounted to torture that resembled the experimentation Nazis performed on Jews, the opening of a civil trial heard yesterday. More than two dozen inmates of what was the maximum security […]
The Canadian PressMichelle McQuigge Communities in central Ontario’s flood-ravaged cottage country worked to stave off more damage yesterday while bracing for heavy rainfall forecast for later in the week. More military personnel were deployed throughout the region and municipalities called on volunteers to help replenish the supply of sandbags as […]
