Duane Hicks Demolition of the Rainy Lake Hotel is set to get underway. Chief Building Official Travis Rob said JMX Contracting will be mobilizing one crew this weekend to get some preliminary on-site work done inside the long-vacant building. The main crew is arriving from southern Ontario on Sunday, and […]
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Duane Hicks Demolition work is set to begin on the vacant Rainy Lake Hotel. JMX Contracting has set up an office and parked some equipment behind the structure, and is expected to get into full swing after the weekend.
Press Release Due to a number of residents experiencing upper respiratory symptoms at Rainycrest Long-Term Care, the Northwestern Health Unit has declared an outbreak. As such, family members are asked to restrict their visits to the resident’s room (not in common area) and refrain from visiting other residents while there. […]
Staff The rest of the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League has the “Mother” of all problems to deal with. How I Set Your Mother made it 3-for-3 with yet another six-point night last night to remain in first place with 18 points. That’s What She Set has its own three-week […]
Staff The four Muskie court sports teams look to be quite happy to make themselves at home—even if it’s in somebody else’s roost. Fort High ignored proper guest etiquette by sweeping the host Dryden Eagles in NorWOSSA action yesterday. The junior Muskies (2-0) beat the Eagles (0-1) by a 3-1 […]
Joey Payeur Tyson Morrisseau made the most of life in the sand by blasting out of this bunker to within two feet of the hole on the par-four seventh during the NWOSSAA championship yesterday at Heron Landing.
Staff Workers at Gingrich Woodcraft Inc., who were terminated in August when they voted to unionize and join Unifor, received a significant settlement yesterday at the Ontario Labour Relations Board. “I am pleased to announce we’ve negotiated a settlement that includes a significant monetary compensation package for the Gingrich Woodcraft […]
Joey Payeur Tyson Morrisseau was grinning from one side of his mouth and spitting nails out the other. The Muskie boys’ golf team’s top player lost on the second playoff hole to Cameron Baird of the Westgate Tigers (Thunder Bay) during the NWOSSAA championship yesterday at Heron Landing to finish […]
Staff A significant settlement was reached today at the Ontario Labour Relations Board for employees of Gingrich Woodcraft Inc. who were terminated in August when they voted to unionize and join Unifor. The owners had shut down the custom cabinet-making factory, claiming their religious beliefs precluded them from working with […]
Heather Latter Reo Walton, with the United Native Friendship Centre, flipped burgers at Fort Frances Tribal Area Health Services yesterday to mark “Orange Shirt Day”—an annual recognition of the harm the residential school system did to children’s sense of self-esteem and well-being. The FFTAHS Behavioural Health Services partnered with UNFC […]
Heather Latter Jen Lee of the Toronto-based “Mining Matters” program spoke to Grade 11-12 students at Fort Frances High School this morning. Presented by New Gold, a public presentation also is being offered there tonight from 6-8 p.m.
Press Release Representatives from Ontario’s 21 universities will be at Fort Frances High School this Monday (Oct. 5) from 2-3:15 p.m. for the University Information Program (UIP). This free event offers local high school students, and their parents, the opportunity to speak in person with multiple university reps. The UIP […]
