Duane Hicks Have a “Go Local” card? Well, get swiping. “Go Local” turns two years old this month and as part of the birthday celebrations, organizers are giving away 5,000 “Go Local” points to a lucky member. Some time this month, one lucky shopper will help the program reach its […]
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Duane Hicks Fort Frances will host the Heart of the Continent Partnership quarterly meeting here in June, showcasing the area to at least 50 delegates. Annely Armstrong-Thorstad, manager of the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce, learned the news Friday while attending the Thunder Bay launch of the HOCP National Geographic […]
Heather Latter Rainy River First Nation’s 25 mega-watt solar project, located just northeast of Pinewood on the Morley-Dilke Road, has been nominated for a Game Changer Award by the Canadian Solar Industries Association. “It’s a game-changer award in the sense of what it’s going to do for those individual communities,” […]
Joey Payeur Countless miles travelled on the road and skated on the ice together formulated a friendship to last a lifetime between Scott Clendenning and Todd Hamilton. Now Hamilton and the rest of the local hockey community, along with Clendenning’s family and friends, are forced to deal with the harsh […]
Heather Latter Coun. June Caul presented Diane Maxey with a cupcake in celebration of the “Go Local” program’s second “birthday” while shopping on Scott Street yesterday. Also pictured are RRFDC/“Go Local” interns Maria Cristina Ciotti, back left, and Jamie Petrin, who were carting around and distributing cupcakes to local shoppers.
Heather Latter The Bargain Shop employees Nancy Hanna, left, and Mary Fehr were busy plastering the store window with paper eggs yesterday to display the support of Easter Seals Ontario’s “paper eggs” campaign. This initiative is part of Easter Seals’ annual March is Easter Seals Month fundraising and awareness campaign, […]
Heather Latter Mike Kabatay, with help from elder Nancy Jones, provided a snaring demonstration Friday during March Break activities at the Nanicost Building here. Hosted by Seven Generations and Seine River First Nations, in partnership with the Rainy River District Substance Abuse Prevention Team, youth learned to make rabbit stew, […]
Joey Payeur Devlin’s Mike Badiuk watched his team’s sweeping efforts during the first end of the ‘A’ final of the annual Fort Frances men’s bonspiel against Lorne Jackson’s rink from here.
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers will begin their post-season march to a second-straight Bill Salonen Cup here Friday night. As expected, the SIJHL announced the best-of-seven semi-final series between the first-place Lakers and fourth-place Thunder Bay North Stars will get underway Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Ice For Kids […]
Staff The Northwest Catholic District School Board has been considering consolidating St. Francis and St. Michael’s schools here, but now it also is looking at pursuing a Catholic secondary school. At last month’s meeting, the board decided to hold off on a decision regarding the consolidation so consideration could be […]
Duane Hicks Ring-billed gulls, seen here at the Sorting Gap Marina, are back along with Canada geese and other avians. Local lore has it that there will be three “snows” after the return of the gulls. Let’s hope the snowfall we got last Thursday, along with the white stuff in […]
Staff A new report received by town council last night shows how much the mayor and councillors were paid in 2014, with Mayor Roy Avis again ranking as the highest-paid and having the most expenses. Mayor Avis, who also sits on the Fort Frances Power Corp. board of directors and […]
