Alice Ivall, North One Regional Director for Community Living Ontario, presented local graduate Veryan Erwin with the Anne Stafford “Light Up the Future” 2008 bursary. Erwin will be continuing his post secondary education at Confederation College in Thunder Bay this fall.
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Lawrence Carter came up a bit short during the putting contest on the grass at Kitchen Creek Golf Course while sporting some extra grass on top of his head Saturday during the second-annual RBC Financial Group Charity Golf Classic. The fundraising total for the event was not available prior to […]
Seven-year-old twins Alina, left, and Brianna Eldridge enjoyed the “Knight’s Tale” party held yesterday at the public library. Kids participated in colouring, jousting, crafts, and were even knighted. Keeping with the medieval fantasy theme, kids also enjoyed eating Jell-O “dragon guts.”
Sarah Chrsitie, Youth Services Officer for Service Canada, served up pancakes during the “Stacked for Summer Employment Pancake Social” yesterday in an effort to promote youth employment by offering their services to the public.
The Fort Frances Service Canada Centre for Youth (SCCY) held a pancake social yesterday at their office on Scott Street in an effort to promote its youth employment services to the public. “An event like this just basically is meant to call out to the community and increase awareness. I […]
THUNDER BAY, ON—Hundreds of people from all walks of life have signed their names to a letter to the Premier of Ontario urging him to avoid the decimation of the province’s forestry sector that will occur with a wrongly implemented Endangered Species Act. Municipal leaders, housewives, bankers, lawyers, business owners, […]
The Fort Frances OPP is seeking the assistance of the public to solve the following crimes of vandalism. On March 15th, 2008 police were called to investigate three reports of vandalism. In all three incidents, someone smashed the taillights on parked vehicles. The vandalism occurred at the 100 block of […]
One new fire was reported yesterday—a 0.1 hectare blaze located in the Red Lake District north of Woodland Caribou Park. FireRangers and water bombers responded, and no problems are anticipated in extinguishing the blaze. This brings the total number of active fires in the region up to four. There’s been […]
The Town of Fort Frances’ summer day programs and specialty camps are off to a great start this year with many different ones being offered for a variety of age groups. “The programs are all named the same as before and they are basically the same, except we are doing […]
The annual Canada Day fastball tournament in Barwick featured plenty of sunny skies to complement the smiling faces seen on all who took part as the Fort Frances Sight & Sound team pulled off a hotly-contested 6-5 victory over Pinewood in the tournament final. But the real story of the […]
Mandy Barker received her crown and sash along with all of her other goodies, after being announced First Princess and Miss Congeniality during yesterday Junior Miss “Fun in the Sun” crowning at Pither’s Point Park.
Children and adults from the Fort Frances Day Care paraded down Portage Avenue on Monday as they celebrated Canada’s birthday—complete with streamers, flags, and maple leaf hats.
