St. Francis School’s drama club presented “Canadian Idle” to fellow students and guests Wednesday afternoon. The play told the story of Bruno Slacker, centre, a clinical psychologist who decides to conduct an experiment on eight volunteers—but things don’t go exactly as planned. —Melanie Béchard photo
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The Rainy River District School Board’s results for the 2007 Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) indicate the district’s students continue to perform well in the areas of reading and writing. Of the 248 Grade 10 students who wrote the test for the first time in March, 88 percent passed […]
The first-annual Fort Frances Public Library “car rally” went off without a hitch Wednesday night and has drawn a great amount of attention for the “Building for the Future fundraising campaign. Participants decoded clues and partook in challenges that led them to a number of locations around town, as well […]
Sullivan Langford, age two, was over joyed to receive his pre school diploma from Laurel Armstrong yesterday afternoon, during the Fort Frances Nursery School’s graduation. Parents and their toddler’s gathered at the Legion park here for a noon picnic and presentation from the nursery school staff. —Amanda Roy photo
“Team Times” members, Tanya Cumming, back left, Heather Oligvie, and Susan Martin raced to decode the history of Rainy Lake explorers, before Laurel Halvorsen and her team could. Seventeen teams participated in last night’s “Car Rally,” which was a fundraiser for the Fort Frances Library’s “Building for the Future” campaign. […]
Ask Tom Pearson, owner of Camp Narrows Lodge and former president of the North Western Ontario Tourism Association, about what’s keeping tourists out of the area and he won’t hesitate to speak his mind. “As past president, our major issue was the border,” he said Tuesday. “And that’s from everybody. […]
A sub-committee of the Rainy River District Regional Abattoir Inc. has been struck to determine the supply commitment of its members in order to move ahead with an accurate business plan to establish an abattoir in the area. This came following a majority vote at a general membership meeting in […]
The Superior International Junior Hockey League will expand back into Fort Frances this fall. “It’s gonna happen, it’s as simple as that,” said SIJHL president and commissioner Ron Whitehead. “Fort Frances is definitely in the league.” The league approved the move Saturday at its annual general meeting, ending a process […]
Confederation College graduates were offered words of wisdom and acknowledgment during their convocation ceremony here Monday night. “It brings me great pleasure to introduce the graduating class each year because each one of these individuals has stepped out of their comfort zones, enrolled at the college, and succeeded,” said college […]
Up until now, it seemed the only traffic the government dock at Pither’s Point would see this summer would be from the hundreds of seagulls that perch there each day. But the Town of Fort Frances has decided the dock is structurally sound enough to allow the Fort Frances Canadian […]
Fort Frances Public Works has replaced the blue-coloured glass depot bins with a new green dumpster to make glass recycling more efficient for residents and staff alike. The new bin is a full-size dumpster with a large opening on the front which provides easy access for residents to dump their […]
In an efforts to establish a dedicated youth justice system, the province announced Friday it would fund the construction of a new youth detention facility here in Fort Frances. The 12-bed facility will be dedicated to aboriginal youth aged 12-17, and is scheduled for completion in early 2009. “Our government […]
