Stewardship Ontario last week sent out cheques totalling $6.7 million to 190 municipalities in Ontario—the first payment under the provincial Waste Diversion Act to help them pay for “blue box” programs. Fort Frances wound up getting $6,408 as its share, Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown noted yesterday. “It’s good […]
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After deciding last week to extend the entry deadline for this year’s Fun in the Sun queen pageant until last Friday, and then waiting another two days for more entry forms to come in this past Monday and Tuesday, organizers have decided to go ahead with it. Dawn Booth, a […]
It’s a start, but there’s still a long way to go. That pretty well summed up the opinion of Clover Valley Farmers’ Market manager Deb Cornell after the Fort Frances High School band’s consignment auction there Saturday. A vast number of items—ranging from antique jars to a one-night fishing trip […]
Koochiching County’s Environmental Services Department has hired a part-time worker at the solid waste and recycling facility in International Falls to handle the increase in recyclables coming over the border from Fort Frances. Environment Services director Richard Lehtinen said yesterday afternoon that the new worker, who just started there yesterday, […]
The young members of the Fort Frances Aquanauts Swim Team sat in rapt attention Friday evening as their coach, Roman Ramirez, adressed them at their annual banquet. He spoke about people in their lives who had inspired them. People who had enriched their lives. People who had pushed them to […]
Nine-year-old Donovan Taylor of Fort Frances just finished a stellar swimming season, earning national rankings in several events. Taylor is ranked fourth in Canada in the boys’ nine and under 50m backstroke and seventh in the 100m backstroke in a long-course pool. It’s no wonder backstroke is his favourite, though […]
The committee spearheading the OFSAA boys’ hockey tournament here in 2006 will nail down major issues before taking a break for the summer and then getting serious plans underway in the fall. The committee, which won the bid to have Fort Frances host the all-Ontarios back in April, tentatively will […]
Given a choice, would you rather spend a sunny Friday afternoon at work or playing golf? Well, considering it was all for a good cause anyway, 14 teams of four decided to play hooky last Friday to play in the eighth-annual Confederation College Scholarship Golf Tournament out at Kitchen Creek. […]
It was a successful season for the Muskies girls’ soccer team—a NorWOSSA championship, an NWOSSAA silver medal, and a trip to the all-Ontarios. “Overall, we’re happy,” said head coach Struchan Gilson, who will retire this year after 19 years of coaching the team. “We’re getting closer.” The black-and-gold successfully competed […]
Our Lady of the Way School was as busy as a bee-hive last Wednesday. OPP Cst. Greg Johnson was listening to essays written by students in the Grade 5/6 class as part of the Drug Awareness and Resistance Education (D.AR.E.) program. Several students made presentations that Cst. Johnson thought were […]
Sixteen seniors on hand for the weekly Wheels to Meals program last Thursday at the Emo Legion enjoyed some heart-warming musical entertainment. The trio included Chapple Reeve Bill Clink (electric bass guitar), Glen Hart (banjo), and Ramona Smith (accordion). Good music is sweet music to the ear, keeping the mind, […]
Carole Mackintosh of Fort Frances was the lucky winner of $100 a week for a year in the draw held by the Friends of the Emo/La Vallee Community Centre. Sandie Drennan presented the money on Friday afternoon in the council chambers at the Emo municipal office. Proceeds from this fundraiser […]
