Peggy Revell Courtney Sinclair worked on her masterpiece Saturday afternoon at the Fort Frances Museum during a youth art workshop held as part of the Community Arts Heritage Education Project. A improv workshop that morning also gave children the chance to expand their acting skills.
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Duane Hicks Local MP John Rafferty stressed the HST is not a “done deal” to about 75 delegates here Saturday at the Rainy River District Municipal Association’s annual general meeting, vowing he will continue to fight against what he calls “the wrong tax at the wrong time.”
Dan Falloon Things got physical between the Fort Frances Snipers’ Brett Hahkala and Cole Tymkin and their Thunder Bay Elks in the final of the Snipers’ home tourney yesterday. The locals fell 3-2 in a hard-fought game to settle for the silver medal while the Elks went home with the […]
Heather Latter Pat Herr picked the winning ticket for the Fort Frances Kiwanis Club’s “Trip of the Month” draw for February this morning at International Travel Services here as Kiwanian Robin Wright looked on. Shaun and Teresa Bagacki of Fort Frances will be heading on a Honolulu—a trip valued at […]
Staff A Fort Frances man is dead following a head-on collision involving two snowmobiles last night. Aaron Hyatt, 33, was killed when his snowmachine collided with a second snowmachine around 8:30 p.m. on a trail north of School Road and south of Highway 11 at Couchiching First Nation, Fort Frances […]
Staff While the number of nominations are not as high as some past years, judging soon will begin to decide the winners at the 14th-annual Bell Business Awards coming up here on Saturday, Feb. 13. Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce manager Anthony Mason said roughly 35 nominations came in by […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers are making appearances in classrooms near you. Players have been split up into four groups, each led by one of the on-ice captains, and have been visiting local schools. The players are speaking to the students about both education and sports, reading to them as […]
the OPP With cold weather conditions always threatening to put our district into a deep freeze, the OPP would like drivers to “Lock It or Lose It!” Police want drivers to take a few simple precautions to help protect themselves and their vehicles from opportunistic criminals. Property crime is everyone’s […]
Duane Hicks Police still were on the scene this morning of a head-on collision between two snowmobiles last night that killed a Fort Frances man and sent two others to hospital.
Peggy Revell Steve Loshaw, president of the Rainy River District Regional Abattoir Inc., addressed the huge crowd that turned out for the site’s opening ceremony yesterday. About 200 people took tours of $2-million, 3,600 sq. ft. facility, which is located on Byng St. in Emo. The abattoir will not be […]
Heather Latter Students at St. Michael’s School had an “out of this world” experience thanks to a space-themed book fair that ran all week there. Pictured are visiting astronauts, Nikki Armstrong (far left) and Laura Chabot (far right), along with Christian Wiedenhoeft and Ethan Rose. The annual January book fair […]
Duane Hicks Adam Brazier and Marisa McIntyre thrilled the crowd with more than 50 songs from Broadway musicals during a performance of the cabaret-style comedy, “He Sang She Sang,” last night at the Townshend Theatre. The show was the fifth in the 2009-10 “tour de Fort” concert series.
