Jessica George Aimee McEvoy, left, Tessa Debruyne, Sheree Hinz, and Cheryl Luptak started a massage train at the Beautiful Unique Girls “beach party” held at St. Mary’s Church here Saturday night. The girls spent the evening talking and enjoying music while also being treated to a concert, smoothies, pizza, and […]
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Submitted Hunter Ottoson showed the cigarette butts he picked up last Wednesday during J.W. Walker School’s “Great Canadian Shoreline Clean-up.” About 40 students from Mrs. Gilbert and Mrs. Easton’s Grade 2 and 3 classes, along with 10 adults, cleaned the upper Rainy River shoreline from La Verendrye Hospital to La […]
Paige Desmond Crews from Pioneer Construction began paving Central Avenue yesterday, and were expected to have the first lift of asphalt down by the end of today. The second, or top, lift of asphalt is expected to be done sometime next week. As well, the first phase of paving done […]
Duane Hicks The “Building for the Future” fundraising campaign’s “Drive for 35” phone blitz got off to a good start yesterday, having raised $9,000 of the final $35,000 needed to meet its $750,000 goal. Campaign chair Mark Kowalchuk said this morning that thanks to the generosity of area residents, they’ve […]
Duane Hicks With work on Central Avenue wrapping up this fall, the town now will turn to rehabilitating Scott Street from Reid Avenue to Colonization Road East as its 2009-10 “Connecting Link” capital project. At last night’s regular meeting, council approved a report from Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown […]
Staff The Portage Avenue underpass will be closed from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. tomorrow through Tuesday (Sept. 24-30) as rehabilitation work there continues, Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown reported this morning. Brown said crews will be pouring concrete tomorrow, and then will be installing a bottom row of seven soil […]
Duane Hicks The Town of Fort Frances will hold a meeting at the Civic Centre tomorrow (Sept. 24) at 7 p.m. to gauge interest from potential property developers and unit buyers to see if building another condominium here is a feasible venture down the road. Economic development officer Geoff Gillon […]
Duane Hicks Maria Sanders, left, tested her skill at the bottle cap toss while Tammy Kellar tried out the ring toss yesterday evening during a meeting of the Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s special events committee in preparation for its “Oktoberfest” party coming up Oct. 4 at the Memorial Sports […]
Paige Desmond Eating Jell-O proved to be much more than a jiggly undertaking yesterday as Grade 10 students from Fort Frances High School participated in the Prevent Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth (P.A.R.T.Y.) program at La Verendrye Hospital. Challenged to eat lunch with limited physical abilities, the goal was […]
Peggy Revell Local residents are invited to attend a community presentation on abuse and violence prevention tonight from 6-8 p.m. at the Urban Multi-purpose Aboriginal Youth Centre on Mowat Avenue here. “Men of Strength” is one of many presentations being made by abuse and violence educator Joseph Weinberg, who was […]
Duane Hicks Town council will begin its 2009 budget process tonight with an open meeting to get input from the public. Two speakers are on the agenda. Chamber of Commerce first vice-president Cathy Emes will speak on behalf of the membership while local resident Dino D’Agostini will make a request […]
Mitch Calvert The Muskie football team was a pretty banged-up group going into Friday’s tilt with the Dryden Eagles—and came back worse for the wear after a 22-7 loss. The game started well for Fort High as quarterback Dan Brunetta engineered a long drive in the first quarter using all […]
