Local residents will have a chance to brighten a child’s Christmas again this year with Family and Children’s Services “Adopt an Angel” program. The program was launched last year with great success, providing gifts to children in foster care across the district. FACS has put up a Christmas tree hung […]
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Downtown shopping took on the flavour of the kitchen Friday morning with the opening of “Gourmet Outfitters,” the latest business venture by local entrepreneur Connie Cuthbertson of Northwoods Gallery and Gifts. Located at the northwest corner of Scott Street and Portage Avenue, Gourmet Outfitters features gourmet food products, cookware, glassware, […]
Tomorrow, many of us will be gathering at the various cenotaphs throughout the district to pay homage to those among us who left the security of hearth and home to commit themselves to mortal combat on distant shores. We will be joined by the ever-thinning ranks of those who were […]
I too want to encourage people across Ontario to get involved in Remembrance Day ceremonies, to take the time to acquaint themselves with what has gone before us. Many people don’t know that over a million and a half Canadians sacrificed themselves in the First World War, the Second World […]
If you weren’t already convinced that, yes, Christmas is close at hand—the opening of the Christmas Store at the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market building on McIrvine Road here at 10 a.m. this Saturday should quash all your doubts. This is the 14th season for the popular holiday store run by […]
Now that the presidential and congressional elections south of the border are behind us, some local cattle farmers are looking anxiously towards the future in the hopes that the nightmare that has been hanging over their heads for the last 18 months may finally dissolve in the sunlight of a […]
In an effort to give town residents a chance to do a little cleaning up before the snow flies, the town suspended the collection of tipping fees for leaves, tree branches, grass clippings, and garden waste. And apparently the municipal landfill was a very busy place, with hundreds of vehicles […]
Council agreed to lend their support to a resolution passed by the Township of Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls, and agree that the Northwestern Health Unit not increase its levy in 2005 by more than three percent. Last year, the health unit was increased to $50 per capita—36 percent more than the […]
The Shaw family have bought an additional 750,000 class-B non-voting shares in Shaw Communications Inc., the cable television provider said yesterday. The shares, worth about $16 million, were picked up last week and raises the Shaw family’s stake in the company through stock it either owns or controls to 20,759,556 […]
Andrew Dault had the opportunity to do something that fans of hockey don’t often see in our great game. With 1,125 seconds having passed in the first period, and the score knotted at notta between the Borderland Thunder and the Dryden Ice Dogs last Friday here, Dault saw an opening, […]
Canada versus the States. That’s what it was really all about when the Muskie girls faced the International Falls Broncos this past Saturday night here. It was labeled as an exhibition game, but was it really? “I think this is always our biggest game of the year, because we want […]
Who can you thank for the enrollment boom the Fort Frances Visserettes and Boys Gymnastics Club has seen since Mirel and Mirela Bica joined on as coaches three years ago? Their three-year-old daughter Julianne, that’s who. A little confused? Well here’s the story as to how the married couple of […]
