In the end, integrity and Chrissy Thomson both won out. The 20-year-old Fort Frances golfer was the beneficiary of the honesty of playing partner Jill Hardy from Winnipeg, as a twostroke penalty accepted by Hardy gave Thomson a one-stroke victory in the Golf Manitoba amateur ladies’ championship in Winnipeg yesterday—the […]
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The sound of Fort Frances Highlander Bruce Lidkea’s bag pipes lured in a crowd to an outdoor tent where numerous local municipal leaders, as well as Kenora-Rainy River District MP Robert Nault, gathered for a grand opening held by the Rainy River Futures Development Corporation last night. The RRFDC actually […]
With the singing event of the summer coming up next Wednesday under the big tent at the Sorting Gap marina, time is running out for fans to get tickets for this year’s “Quest for the Best.” “Quest” organizer Dawn Booth said tickets started moving immediately Monday, and have been selling […]
The hit song “Saturday Night” may have went off the charts decades ago, but the Bay City Rollers now seem to have found success on Tuesdays. The local slo-pitch team enters this week on top of the standings in the Tuesday night division of the Fort Frances Adult Slo-Pitch League […]
While the Northwestern Health Unit continues to send away dead crows and ravens for testing, said evidence of the West Nile virus has yet to show up here this mosquito season. “We’ve sent away a total of 40 specimens in both the Kenora and Rainy River Districts, and they’ve all […]
The Fort Frances Public Library Board will be holding a public meeting tomorrow night for concerned citizens to view the architect’s final report on the future development of the library. John Stephenson, of the Thunder Bay architectural firm Kuch, Stephenson, Gibson, and Malo, will present his final report to the […]
With the onslaught of telephone calls in recent weeks to Fort Frances and area residents asking them to sign up for Bell Sympatico High Speed Internet, the question of when broadband access will arrive here once again has arisen. The phone calls from Bell Canada Call Centre telemarketers came on […]
Marty Johnston, 14, of Rainy River, won his first game last Monday in the Canadian National Chess Championships at Kapuskasing in the Under 16 Boys category. He defeated Alex Livingston, with a rating of 1634. In his second game later that day, he played the second highest rated player there, […]
The Town of Fort Frances reached a memorandum of understanding with Stratton Equipment Sales and Service at an in-camera session of the committee of the whole Monday night, outlining the principles of an agreement for the partial demolition of the old Fort Frances High School on First Street East. “It’s […]
After months of uncertainty, the Fort Frances Nursery School has finally found a home. “It was perfect timing,” said Sandra Weir of the nursery school, adding that they were required to leave their old location at the end of last month as the school year ended. “Our stuff has already […]
Of the 48 Canadians participating in a walk for diabetes in Bermuda this fall, only one is from Ontario: Marilyn Angus of Barwick. The 44-year-old grandmother will walk 26 miles, or about 42 km, as a member of Team Diabetes Canada in the Great Walking Marathon in November. “It’s going […]
The Kenora-Rainy River District Community Care Access Centre is still struggling to recruit board members, including one from Fort Frances, after the majority of the board of directors resigned in January 2002. “We’ve made several attempts. There’s just not much interest,” said Kevin Holder, Interim Executive Director of the district […]
