Two hunters have been fined a total of $4,000 for illegal hunting after firing at a moose decoy. Luigi Mesto, 72, of Red Lake, was fined $1,500 for careless use of a firearm while hunting and $500 for discharging a firearm from a travelled portion of a roadway. He also […]
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Take charge of your future with “Summer Company,” an Ontario government program for full-time students aged 15-29. The program provides students with hands-on business experience, training and mentoring, and awards of up to $3,000 to help start their own summer business. To be eligible for the experience, students must: •have […]
Don’t know what to get for that person who has everything? How about treating them to a gourmet meal—all in the name of a charitable cause. Tickets are available for the local Alzheimer Society’s second-annual “Chefs’ Charitable Dinner and Auction,” which is slated for Sunday, Jan. 21 at the Fort […]
Bowater Canadian Forest Products Inc. announced yesterday the indefinite shutdown of its Ignace sawmill operation. This shutdown took effect yesterday and will impact 29 direct Bowater employees and 20 contractor ones. This decision is the direct result of lumber quotas imposed upon Bowater’s Ontario operations. These quotas are the result […]
Fort Frances council passed a motion Monday night to name citizen appointees to various town committees for the term running Dec. 1, 2006-Nov. 30, 2010. The various committees, including the council reps previously named at the Dec. 4 inaugural meeting, are: •Accessibility Advisory Committee—Jennifer Cawston; •Children’s Complex Advisory Committee—Debbie Bazylewski, […]
An award-winning First Nations children’s author will be in town this Saturday (Dec. 23) for a book signing from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. And while he’s not from Rainy River District originally, he does have a local connection. Larry Loyie is the author of three plays, some short stories, and three […]
Students from Solange Busch’s Grade 4/5 class at St Francis School practised the song “Three Kings From the East” on Friday during the junior dress rehearsal there. The actual performance went Monday night, with the class also singing “Il Dort Dans une Créche” and “We’re Having a Party for Jesus.” […]
Kay Veert checked out some of the holiday crafts for sale Sunday afternoon during the Christmas Artisans Show in the Fort High cafeteria. The show, which featured works—some for sale, some not—by area artists, raised about $500 for the Fort Frances Museum renovation campaign. —Duane Hicks photo
JK students Eric Morken, left, and Harrison Duivenvoorden imitated toy soldiers last Wednesday during a dress rehearsal of Crossroads’ Christmas concert presentation—“The True Meaning of Christmas.” The performance was cancelled Thursday due to a power outage but went ahead Monday night. —Heather Ogilvie photo
Marilyn Stinson’s Grade 1 class from Robert Moore School recited a poem about a bear who slept through Christmas at the school’s rehearsal yesterday morning for its primary Christmas concert. The concert for children in JK-Grade 3 took place last night while the one for kids from Grade 4-8 takes […]
Dryden’s Aidan Greenslade tried to dribble around Muskie Kyle Hill during NorWOSSA junior boys’ action last Thursday at Fort High. The black-and-gold won the game in convincing fashion—49-22—over the Eagles. —Melanie Béchard photo
Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP Ken Boshcoff attended last night’s town council meeting to offer greetings to the newly-elected mayor and councillors. “I came to offer this council my co-operation to work with you on those items which our orders of government may find some measure of an attempt to revitalize […]
