Peggy Revell Julianna Rousseau and her grandmother, Marg Rousseau, got ready to dig in at yesterday evening’s spaghetti dinner fundraiser held in the Fort Frances High School cafeteria. Organized by Fort High students, the event raised more than $4,000 for earthquake relief efforts in Haiti by the Red Cross.
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Dave Ogilvie An enthusiastic audience was treated to an evening of music with Rodney Brown and the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday at the Townshend Theatre here. Brown performed several songs, accompanied by the TBSO, from his latest CD entitled “The Big Lonely.” The orchestra also played several of its […]
The Canadian Press Manitoba’s largest hospital is locking some of its hand sanitizer dispensers to try to cut down on theft and potential abuse. The move came after the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg realized as many as 116 bags of alcohol-based sanitizer were disappearing monthly from its wall dispensers. […]
Dan Falloon Giving up late leads has become a nasty habit for the Muskie girls’ hockey team. The black-and-gold were tripped up 7-4 by the host Dryden Eagles on Tuesday night for their second-straight defeat after another collapse in the third period. Fort High (6-6) had fallen 6-5 to Kenora […]
Staff One Muskie curling rink punched its ticket to the NWOSSAA playoffs yesterday while the other fell just short. Tirza Keffer’s girls’ rink earned NorWOSSA silver yesterday at the Rainy River Curling Club, posting a 4-1 record during the round-robin. But Ethan Jordbro was eliminated from further contention in the […]
Dan Falloon The Fort Frances Lakers finally got their pistols blazing in the shootout. After scoring only once in the shootout in three previous losses in the penalty-shot contest, two of three Lakers scored here Tuesday night as Fort Frances held off the Sioux Lookout Flyers 6-5. Justin Erhart and […]
Staff Local residents are being encouraged to help out with Haiti earthquake relief efforts by attending a spaghetti dinner fundraiser at the Fort Frances High School cafeteria today from 4-8 p.m. “Don’t hold back from coming last-minute because we can feed you!” enthused Kathy Cuthbertson of Kathy’s Katering who is […]
Staff If residents noticed an increase in trucks passing through town yesterday, it was because Highway 17 between Kenora and Vermilion Bay had to be closed for several hours due to an accident that killed a Geraldton couple. Kenora OPP said in a press release this morning that police were […]
Press Release Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. once again will be gauging residents’ satisfaction with its services and facilities through a public survey being conducted from Feb. 22-28. The survey was done last year during the same time period and garnered more than 400 responses from Riverside’s facilities across the […]
Staff The case of a Fort Frances couple charged with having a deer fence on their property, in contravention of a town bylaw, remains before the court, with March 12 now scheduled either to set a pre-trial date or to dispose of the matter. Marie and Lynwood Anderson made a […]
Press Release The OPP joined other policing organizations last week in celebrating Safer Internet Day—an international effort to raise awareness of the vulnerability of young people on the Internet, e-mail, and cellphones. The OPP marked Safer Internet Day (Feb. 9) with a reminder to parents and young people that the […]
Press Release The Rainy River District School Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Sharla MacKinnon to the position of elementary curriculum coach, effective March 22, 2010. The elementary curriculum coach will work closely with the board’s elementary literacy and numeracy co-ordinators to support the implementation of differentiated instruction, […]
