Staff The fifth-annual “A Cause for Paws” (CFP) was a success this past Saturday in International Falls, raising $14,000 for the Borderland Humane Society. Committee chair Kallie Kantos-Fritz was pleased with the event, noting it sold out a couple of days beforehand—a first. The fundraiser, which also was a celebration […]
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Press Release Local MPP Sarah Campbell and NDP tourism critic Paul Miller (MPP for Hamilton East-Stoney Creek) have asked the Wynne government to outline how its tourism strategy actually is helping the province’s industry. Last year, Travel Information Centres in Kenora-Rainy River were replaced by a failed electronic Travel App, […]
Heather Latter Students in Cynthia Donald’s Grade 4 class at Robert Moore School performed their rendition of “Live: It’s Fairy Tale News” yesterday during one of the drama sessions of the Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts held there. The drama and instrumental divisions continue today and tomorrow, […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers again trail the Minnesota Wilderness in their best-of-seven SIJHL final after falling 4-1 in Game 3 last night in Cloquet. Having tied the series with a dramatic 2-1 overtime win at the Ice For Kids Arena here Sunday night, the Lakers continued their strong play […]
Staff Muskie Taylor Whitehead continued his impressive season in senior boys’ badminton yesterday, finishing in first place at the NWOSSAA championships in Dryden. Whitehead, who is just in Grade 9 at Fort High, now advances to the all-Ontarios, which will be held May 2-4 in Pain Court and Chatham. The […]
Staff The public is invited to make pledges to the 50 Fort High students participating in the annual “30-hour famine” event here tomorrow. “If people come by the school anytime from 5-7 p.m., there will be someone there they can make a pledge to if they’d like to help,” noted […]
Lucas Punkari For those getting their facilities, leagues, or teams ready for the spring and summer months, the fact there’s still snow on the ground across the district in the middle of April is downright nightmarish. “It’s the total opposite to what we had here last year when everybody was […]
Lucas Punkari If someone went up to Fort Frances native Steve Arpin a few years ago and told him that he would be heading to places in South America and Europe to run a rally car in the Global RallyCross racing series, he would have given that person quite an […]
Duane Hicks An initiative is underway to replace all of the town’s more than 1,000 streetlights—an overhaul that will save the town an estimated $110,000 annually on an ongoing basis. Fort Frances Power Corp. crew haves been installing the lights for the past few weeks, switching out high-pressure sodium lights […]
Duane Hicks Linking technology and local history, the Fort Frances Museum and Cultural Centre is creating a self-guided walking tour that would encourage tourists to explore the town and learn more about local establishments and their individual histories. The tour will be done through the use of Quick Response (QR) […]
Duane Hicks Thanks to a Museum and Technology Fund grant from the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport, the Fort Frances Museum has hired a co-ordinator to transfer its old database to new software, as well as digitize its 100-year-old newspaper collection. Jeremy Hughes, who recently worked part-time as a […]
Heather Latter Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. earned a ‘B’ from “Rate My Hospital”—a resource developed by CBC’s The Fifth Estate to rank Canadian hospitals. A first in Canada, the initiative was designed to “bring more transparency and accountability to our health-care system and to arm Canadians with the information […]
