OPP cadet Tyler Coyle taught four-year-old Ashlyn Beck, left, and Pasquel Shortreed, five, how to make a right turn signal during a bike rodeo at Donald Young School on Friday. Many local youth were on-hand to learn the rules of the road. The event was sponsored by the Northwestern Health […]
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Mike Alan and “Gilmour,” from B93 fm surprised Kate Morrison and Danielle Herbert, Tim Hortons employees, by pushing the dunk tank button. B93 fm and other well known faces helped out with fundraising activities at the local store, during Tim Hortons Camp Day last Wednesday. All funds raised from the […]
Earl Palmquist holding his ice fishing world record lake trout he caught twenty years ago near Atikokan. His sale of the fish through eBay has attracted media attention throughout the region. –Submitted photo
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Teri Treftlin, who was raised in Fort Frances and Atikokan, was presented with the Young Entrepreneur Award (Northwest) at the 10th-annual Influential Women of Northern Ontario awards luncheon held June 6 at the Valhalla Inn in Thunder Bay. This year’s winner was fortunate to find her life’s calling early on. […]
Town council agreed Monday night to declare two properties surplus and put them up for public sale. The property at 821 Sixth St. W.—formerly Buttner Enterprises—will be put to public tender, with a reserve bid in the amount of $75,000. The other property—319 Third St. W.—was purchased a few years […]
With the arrival of summer comes the potential for severe weather, including the many thunderstorms Rainy River District has witnessed over the last couple of weeks. The Fort Frances Fire Department would like to remind the public about the use of the emergency sirens in those situations, and what they […]
Energy Fitness patrons will be heading off in teams to a pair of marathons this weekend—one in Winnipeg and the other in Duluth. The marathoners will be wearing matching green bandanas with white polka dots as a show of solidarity—an idea dreamed up by Energy Fitness owner Jackie Lampi-Hughes. “Just […]
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 […]
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 […]
