The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s annual Home & Leisure Show is coming up April 27-28 at the Memorial Sports Centre and organizers are looking for volunteers to lend a helping hand. “Volunteers are a very important part of it. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to do half the […]
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Here are the results from the Piano division of the Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts from Monday, April 16: •Piano Solo, Examination Courses, Introductory—1. Jordan Bruyere 2. Savannah Sage Woods; •Piano Solo, Examination Courses, 20th Century, Grade 1—1. Raymond Polz 2. Jordan Bruyere; •Piano Solo, Examination Courses, […]
KENORA, Ont. —A Winnipeg businessman has applied to build a six- to eight-storey condominium development on the Lake of the Woods waterfront in Kenora, but will have to convince the city to ease a height restriction. Morris Chia, president and CEO of Travel Professionals International, has submitted his building plan […]
KENORA, Ont. —That’s one grumpy old man. An OPP officer got more than he bargained for when he pulled over an 85-year-old driver on the weekend. Police say they were on the lookout for a vehicle with expired plates when they spotted it on Highway 17 east of Kenora. When […]
The last of the flames died down in the large field north of Williams Avenue late yesterday afternoon as Fort Frances Fire & Rescue Services wrapped up its first day of prescribed burning in town. Firefighters are expected to continue burning operations this week at Flinders Place, near Riverview Cemetery, […]
The Senators seized back home-ice advantage by slowing Pittsburgh’s stars and getting two key goals from one of their own in Daniel Alfredsson. Ottawa—rebounding from a 4-3 loss at home barely 24 hours before in which it twice squandered third-period leads—won 4-2 yesterday to take a 2-1 lead into Game […]
The Fort Frances Fire & Rescue Service responded to the report of a house fire on the 1200 block of Colonization Road West around 1:20 p.m. on Friday. Upon arrival, firefighters observed heavy smoke billowing from the windows of the home’s south side. No one was home at the time […]
The Fort Frances Curling Club will be ready to “rock the house” next season thanks to a $15,000 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to repair the roof. Local MPP Howard Hampton congratulated the club Friday night during its mixed open bonspiel. “The Fort Frances Curling Club is a very […]
Highway 11 was closed for about seven hours yesterday after a single-vehicle collision about six km east of Pearson’s Road that sent the driver to hospital. The driver of a westbound pickup truck lost control of his vehicle around 2 p.m., causing the vehicle to enter the ditch and roll […]
OPP officers investigated a single-vehicle accident on Highway 11 that occurred around 3 p.m. yesterday about six km east of Pearson’s Road. The driver of a westbound pickup truck lost control of his vehicle, causing it to enter the ditch and roll over. The driver, a 27-year-old male from Manitou […]
Here are the results from the Drama division of the Rainy River Festival for the Performing Arts for Friday, April 13: •Choral Speaking, Grades 9 and 10—1. Ashlee Nordstrom, Kali McBride, Ian McKay, Kali Hamilton, Sarah Mallory, Jeremy Asselin, and Kaili Curtis 2. Janel Barker, Nick Kupila, Joe Bruyere, Lynesse […]
The 2006-07 season marks Jason Caslor’s second as resident conductor with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra. In 2004, Caslor became the first-ever resident conductor with Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet—a position supported by the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the University of Manitoba Faculty of Music. […]
