Several local children traveled to Thunder Bay last weekend to join a hundred other young boys and girls aged five to nine from Northwestern Ontario at the Chevrolet Safe and Fun hockey festival. The festival, currently in its ninth year, rotates throughout the nation bringing in hundreds of hockey loving […]
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Dear sir: Not being a politician, not ever having joined a political party, and most of all never having been in politics, I have to ask this question: Does anyone out there actually know what ‘political correctness’ is? I mean, if we were to take the lead by example from those […]
Dear sir: It is reported that Veteran Affairs Minister Greg Thompson has referred to a promise made by Prime Minister Stephen Harper as a “silly promise”. In a letter dated June 28, 2005, Harper said: “A Conservative government would immediately extend the Veterans Independence Program services to widows of all […]
The Swedish Singers are coming to International Falls as part of their third U.S. tour. This outstanding 50-voice Lutheran youth choir will appear Monday, June 25 at 7 p.m. at the Evangelical Covenant Church. The choir is made up of high school- and college-age students coming from Hassleholm, a city […]
The Rainy River District Palliative Care Volunteers are pleased to inform you that we will be holding a Butterfly Release Service on Sunday, July 15, 2007 at the Legion Park in Fort Frances. The release of butterflies comes from an American Indian Legend that believes that if anyone desires a […]
NDP leader Howard Hampton said last week that though the McGuinty Liberals talk the big talk on co-generation and small-scale energy production, they have broken their promise—made two years ago—to hire a co-generation facilitator. Hampton was responding to an announcement made last week by Energy minister Dwight Duncan that the […]
Statistics Canada recently released the latest snapshot of the nation’s agriculture industry, using new data from the 2006 Census of Agriculture. This is the first of a number of data releases from the census. All farm and operator data are available for free at www.stat.ca Comprehensive information about agricultural operations […]
The Dryden Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Detachment would like to remind the travelling motorist that there is a large increase of motor vehicle collisions involving wild animals on the local highways. In May 2007, members of the Dryden OPP investigated 29 motor vehicle collisions in the Dryden area, 21 of […]
The Ontario government has given Horizon Hydro approval to pursue a proposed waterpower facility on a Crown land site, Natural Resources minister David Ramsay announced last week. “Horizon Hydro Inc.’s proposal has the potential to contribute to the region’s prosperity with their focus on the sustainable development of a waterpower […]
Dale Hoard, front, and Ed Katona, admired a 1937 Chevrolet Coupe that was parked Scott Street, during Saturday’s annual Show & Shine here. Several old “beauties” lined the downtown core and people came in droves to check them out. —Amanda Roy photo
Times’ summer reporter Amanda Roy attempted a hole-in-one last Wednesday at Kitchen Creek Golf Course during the Fort Frances Public Library’s car rally fundraiser for its “Building for the Future” campaign. —Heather Ogilvie photo
Michael Vanderaa, five, enjoyed his strawberry dessert on Friday afternoon during the Emo and District Hospital Auxilliary Strawberry Social. The group was commemorated for their 20th year. —Heather Ogilvie photo
