Peggy Revell The provincial government has thrown Family and Children’s Services here a financial lifeline following an announcement Monday of $26.9 million in one-time funding for the dozens of Children’s Aid Societies across the province that are facing funding shortfalls. “The funding we received is one-time mitigation funding, and it […]
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Duane Hicks Life has gotten a little easier for Wayne Lundstrom since he met “Sammy.” Lundstrom returned to Fort Frances on Friday after graduating as valedictorian of his class at the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides training facility in Oakville, Ont., bringing with him the two-year-old black Labrador retriever […]
Duane Hicks With the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) slated to take effect July 1, district businesses got a rundown of the myriad of changes that await them at a Canada Revenue Agency information session here last Wednesday evening. Called “The Transition to Harmonized Sales Tax-Information for Businesses,” the session was […]
Duane Hicks District businesses once again were in the spotlight Saturday night during the 14th-annual Bell Business Awards at the Adventure Inn here. West End Motors, a long-time mainstay on the local business scene, was named Business of the Year (16+ employees). “I would say that it’s very nice to […]
Peggy Revell You can get a 360° view of the streets of Fort Frances without even leaving your home now that parts of Rainy River District have been added to Google Maps’ “Street View” tool. Street views can be seen by visiting http://maps.google.com and searching for a location (such as […]
Peggy Revell There’s a “tree”-mendous effort underway at Fort Frances High School to get people reading the novels that have been nominated for this year’s White Pine Award with a student/teacher book club that meets each Tuesday at 11:40 a.m. “There’s 10 novels that have been nominated,” Fort High teacher […]
Duane Hicks After being informed the town should be seeing some savings in its budget this year thanks to the provincial uploading of Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), members of council and administration will meet tomorrow with the Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board to find out the details. […]
Dan Falloon The Fort Frances Lakers can breathe a sigh of relief, for now. The squad wrapped up its season series with the league-leading Fort William North Stars with a pair of bombs, falling 5-0 there Friday night and 7-2 on Saturday. “It was a rough weekend for us, for […]
Dan Falloon It should have been a statement game. On home ice, with sole possession of second place in NorWOSSA’s ‘AA’ division on the line, the Muskie girls’ hockey team gave up a pair of two-goal leads en route to a 6-5 loss to the Kenora Broncos on Saturday night. […]
Staff A weekend of winter fun is all lined up as the 28th-annual Nestor Falls Winter Carnival is set to run on the first weekend in March. “It’s a weekend of fun activities for the entire family,” enthused Howard Dodd of the Nestor Falls recreation committee, which organizes the annual […]
Dan Falloon Even after running through the NorWOSSA regular season with a 7-1 record, the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team has a chip on its shoulder. The black-and-gold hasn’t forgotten its lone loss of the campaign, when the Muskies fell 49-41 to Kenora on Feb. 4 in their first game […]
Dan Falloon Fort High senior girls’ volleyball coach Duane Roen was blunt about what his squad had to do to mount a serious challenge at Friday’s NorWOSSA playoffs in Dryden. “We can’t make any mistakes,” he remarked. Roen has observed night-and-day differences even among sets as recently as the regular-season […]
