“Face Mental Illness” was chosen as this year’s theme of Mental Illness Awareness Week to raise general awareness of mental illness by showing us human faces of those living with a mental illness. The hope of the week is to not only raise awareness in our community, but to reduce […]
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The story in yesterday’s Daily Bulletin regarding the riverbank cleanup by students from Robert Moore School was incomplete as of press time. In fact, all eight classes at the school—Grades 1 through 8—were involved in the project, which also included cleaning up Lions Park on Second Street East. The students […]
Tickets were still available at last report for tonight’s exhibition clash here between the Manitoba Moose and Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League. Game time is set for 7 p.m. at the Ice for Kids Arena. Tickets, which cost $20 in advance, were available at La Place Rendez-Vous, the […]
Fort Frances OPP officers, assisted by the Northwest Region K-9 Unit, executed a search warrant Wednesday at a La Vallee Township residence located off of Highway 602. During the search, police seized processed marijuana and plants with an estimated street value of $10,000. Two males, aged 59 and 19, were […]
The second-annual Autumn Arts Festival kicked off this morning at the Backus Auditorium in International Falls. The two-day event will feature items for sale, workshops, and displays. Groups participating in the festival include the Northern Lights Quilters’ Guild, the Northland Art Society, and the 4-H Club, as well as many […]
The Fort Frances waterfront is looking a little cleaner today, thanks to the efforts of some of the town’s youngest citizens. Three classes from Robert Moore School spent Thursday morning scouring the riverbank from Crowe Avenue to the Sorting Gap Marina—and came up with an astonishing amount of other people’s […]
The final entries for the 2005 Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship were selected by lottery at La Place Rendez-Vous last night. The top 46 names drawn from the 141 entries now have until Nov. 1 to confirm that they still want to be entered into the FFCBC next, and must […]
A town institution may be closing this month after more than 80 years in business. The East End Confectionery, owned by Neil and Doreen Kabel and Tara and Scott Hamilton, currently is having a liquidation sale in preparation for closing its doors. “I’m figuring we’ll probably close by the 16th […]
Niels Nijssen, a 17-year-old student from Holland, has been adapting to his new settings at Fort Frances High School since the beginning of September. Nijssen lives with his mother, father, and brother in Middleburg, Holland. “There are about 45,000 people in Middleburg,” he noted. “It’s not big, but it’s not […]
Zone #7 District Commander Bonnie Faulds of Kenora will be making her official visit to Fort Frances next Wednesday (Oct. 13). Faulds was elected and installed as district commander at the Zone #7 annual district meeting held in Rainy River in 2003. Prior to becoming district commander, she had served […]
The Riverside Foundation for Health Care hosted the Thunder Bay Legends (“A Tribute Artist Extravaganza”) at the Townshend Theatre here Saturday night—and discovered it was as much a blockbuster as the first time the troupe came through here in April. “It was sold out. We sold tickets right until it […]
Doris Pelletier, a member of the Arthritis Society’s “Joints In Motion” team, is now heading up a “School-Wide Walk” fundraiser tomorrow in memory of her “arthritis hero,” Darrell Webb, who passed away earlier this year. After postponing it last Friday due to bad weather, the walk will start tomorrow at […]
