Duane Hicks Want a unique Christmas tree this holiday season? How about one that can be paid for in the name of a good cause? Then the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce and local Kiwanis Club might have an answer for you with the first-ever “Festival of Trees.” The Chamber […]
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Duane Hicks The building at 261 Scott St. (formerly Nirvana Salon and The Ear Clinic) has new owners. Guy Donaldson said he and wife, Kelly Spicer, together as “M.C. Laine Holdings Ltd.,” are buying the 2,600 sq. ft. building in the downtown area with the transfer officially to take place […]
Heather Latter The Fort Frances High School Music Department’s annual fall musical revue—this year entitled “The 4 Elements—Earth, Fire, Wind, and Rain”—is ready to hit the Townshend Theatre stage tomorrow through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. “It’s a lot of fun,” enthused Larissa Desrosiers, a recent Fort High graduate who has […]
Duane Hicks Branding is more than a logo. It’s a comprehensive effort to shape a more prosperous future that targets people, activity, and types of economic activity needed to bring a vision to life. The town will take the first step in a community branding exercise to help shape the […]
Heather Latter It was a trip of a lifetime for Blake Yatchuk and his son, Tyler. The pair spent nearly a month travelling through Europe last fall to explore many of the museums, monuments, and battlefields pertaining to Canadian history. “I’ve always been interested in WWI and WWII for as […]
Heather Latter The Fort Frances Traffic Safety Committee is pleased with the success of the “Kiss ’n Ride” programs implemented this fall at Robert Moore, J.W. Walker, and St. Francis. During a debriefing Monday afternoon, all committee partners indicated positive responses about the convenient, safe, and efficient procedure for dropping […]
Duane Hicks Knox United Church in Fort Frances is hoping to snag a grant from the Aviva Community Fund to help buy an elevator and make the building much more accessible. But it will need the community’s help—in the form of online voting starting Nov. 11—to do so. “Along with […]
Heather Latter The Rainy River District School Board last night voted in favour of keeping its committee of the whole meeting, scheduled for Nov. 19, at La Place Rendez-Vous here in Fort Frances. The meeting, being held as part of the process to determine the futures of Donald Young School […]
Joey Payeur The Fort Frances Lakers are at an all-time high, but the altitude isn’t having any adverse effects so far. The Lakers earned their 12th-straight victory Saturday night—doubling the English River Miners 4-2 in Ear Falls. Combined with a 6-0 shutout of the host Dryden Ice Dogs last Wednesday, […]
courtesy of Tyler Yatchuk Local resident Blake Yatchuk and his son, Tyler, placed a Canadian flag on the grave of Lt.-Col. John Alexander McCrae, a surgeon during the second battle of Ypres in Belgium and author of the famous war memorial poem, “In Flanders Fields,” during a nearly month-long trek […]
Heather Latter Nicke Baird, left, Chelsey Simpson, and Heather Bridgeman, owners of the new online business “Smashing Tea,” poured themselves a cup of one of their favourite flavours. The business, which offers a variety of loose leaf tea, will be officially launching with an event this Sunday from 1:30-3:30 p.m. […]
Duane Hicks Pam Williams, second from left, owner of new pet supply store, “4 Your Pets,” cut the ribbon during the grand opening of the business Friday morning. Williams was accompanied by her daughter, Beverly Fowler, left, Martin Dufresne, chair of the Rainy River Future Development Corp. Business Investment Committee, […]
