There’s nothing like a Tim Hortons oven-fresh chocolate chip cookie—unless it’s twice the size! Tim Hortons “Smile Cookies” once again are going on sale for $1 (tax excluded) in Fort Frances from Oct. 4-7. The special chocolate chip cookies also have double the meaning because all proceeds from the cookie […]
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A 29-year-old Fort Frances man was charged with impaired driving, driving with a blood alcohol level over 80 mg, and possession of marijuana on Saturday. Fort Frances OPP officers observed the man operating a 1976 motorhome in an erratic manner on Scott Street shortly after 1 a.m. The man was […]
Mental Illness Awareness Week (Sept. 30-Oct. 6) is an annual national public education campaign designed to help open the eyes of Canadians to the reality of mental illness. The week was established in 1992 by the Canadian Psychiatric Association, and is now co-ordinated by the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness […]
An Atikokan man is facing several charges in conjunction with a motor vehicle accident there in July that killed one person and seriously injured two others. Joseph J. Benjamin, 28, was charged with criminal negligence causing death, criminal negligence causing bodily harm, impaired driving causing death, impaired driving causing bodily […]
Paul Dalseg, who was born and raised in Rainy River District, surprised the Riverside Foundation for Health Care last week with his very generous donation of $30,000 in memory of his parents, Paul and Bricken Dalseg, on behalf of the Dalseg Family. “My father raised us to be generous,” Dalseg […]
The Muskie football team came up short in Winnipeg last Friday afternoon, falling 37-8 to the Grant Park Pirates to remain winless on the season. While Grant Park (3-1) is a tough, experienced team and the loss was by no means an upset, it remains another familiar chapter in a […]
The district’s competitive fishing season came to a close over the weekend, with Alex and Darrell Keszler of Winnipeg being the two anglers at the top of the heap at the 2007 Fall Bass Classic at Birch Point Camp. The pair bagged 39.56 pounds to narrowly edge out defending champ […]
The Manitoba Moose ostensibly were the home team, but the Toronto Marlies looked like anything but the visitors—in control of a 5-3 exhibition victory from start to finish Friday night in front of many Fort Frances fans wearing their familiar blue and white. While cheering from the crowd seemed split […]
The Ontario Trillium Foundation presented Great Grant Awards to six non-profit and charitable organizations in the region Friday in Thunder Bay. Among those was the local partnership of the Rainy Lake Conservancy, Nature Conservancy of Canada, and the Rainy River Valley Field Naturalists. Groups across the province were being recognized […]
More than 60 seniors and older adults from Emo and the surrounding communities dropped by the Legion last Wednesday to participate in the first seniors’ expo held there. “We were really quite pleased with the turnout . . . and pleased with the response we received,” said Sandy Skirten, district […]
FORT FRANCES—Since developing a talent of writing rap music at the age of 14, Wade Friesen (a.k.a. Brok_Homz) always has been interested in releasing an album of his work. And recently he did just that. “I’d thought about it for the last two years,” said the 19-year-old from Alberton. “I […]
FORT FRANCES—The Northwestern Ontario Associated Chambers of Commerce held its 72nd-annual general meeting last Thursday-Saturday at La Place Rendez-Vous, seeing a total of 40 registered attendees and presenters come here from all corners of the region. In addition to getting up-to-date on topics relevant to economic development, the region, and […]
