With news the Fort Frances Bingo Hall will be closing its doors Dec. 31, the charitable groups which have been running fundraiser bingos there for years will suffer if an alternative can’t be found. “It’s going to affect us greatly. I don’t know how we’re going to meet our budgets,” […]
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The chairwoman of the Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board strenuously declined a request from Fort Frances town council that she and CAO Donna Dittaro appear before it to explain the current situation with the board’s new building whose renovations are over-budget. Val Pizey, who also is mayor of […]
From one extreme to the next. That’s what Kim Jo Bliss, technician at the agricultural research station in Emo, has experienced the last two years—with 2005 being extremely wet and this past summer resulting in drought conditions. “It’s been a long time since we could say ‘Wow, what a dry […]
The Town of Fort Frances saluted 2006 “Citizen of the Year” June Keddie, as well as retirees and employees who have reached 25 years of service, at its annual appreciation dinner Friday night at La Place Rendez-Vous. As she was greeted on stage by 1994 “Citizen of the Year” Mark […]
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 […]
Efforts to build a district abattoir are forging ahead as discussions, negotiations, and draft business plans continue between the board of the Rainy River District Regional Abattoir Inc. (RRDRA) and the interested operator, Northend Farms Ltd. “We agreed the preferred option was to lease to an operator,” RRDRA president Steve […]
Agriculture and Agri-Food minister Chuck Strahl announced last week federal tax deferrals to livestock producers in Northwestern Ontario impacted by this past summer’s drought, but farmers in Rainy River District are not pleased with the response. “Deferring tax really isn’t the problem, so we don’t think it is the appropriate […]
An 18-year-old Fort Frances male was charged with assault with a weapon following a disturbance on the 100 block of Fourth Street West shortly after 5 a.m. yesterday. The teen is scheduled to appear in court Dec. 18. Then around 9:30 a.m. yesterday, Fort Frances OPP arrested two men for […]
