Sherri Allan’s grade five class at Donald Young School had a great adventure when they visited the local post office to mail their Flat Stanley letters. “Flat Stanley is a fictitious character who was flattened when a billboard fell on top of him,” noted teacher R. Enns, adding he is […]
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With grade 10 literacy testing coming up Oct. 26-27, the local public school board is very serious about seeing better results this year than last. Especially since this time around, students are required to pass the test in order to graduate. “Our students can perform better than they did last […]
The 200 and 300 blocks of Scott Street were lined with haystacks Saturday as many merchants there took their wares to the sidewalks and children bobbed for apples during the BIA’s inaugural “Harvest Festival.” While most businesses went all out, standing scarecrows on the sidewalk or offering games for kids, […]
Donald Young School in Emo held its annual book display and sale last Thursday and Friday in the gymnasium. DYS librarian Marie-Ann DeGroot co-ordinated the program, which saw students browsing through all elements of the book display. Books are magic–they can ignite the imagination of children, especially in the lower […]
The Fort Frances Fire Department once again will be stressing the public be aware of possible fire hazards when Fire Prevention Week starts Oct. 7. “Every week is Fire Prevention Week for us,” Fire Chief Steve Richardson said. “It’s just that Fire Prevention Week is when we really go out […]
To the relief of many, the provincial government has decided several district communities that suffered varying degrees of damage and loss because of severe weather July 31 will receive disaster relief funding. As first reported in last Friday’s Daily Bulletin, Northern Development and Mines minister Dan Newman announced that eight […]
The Rainy River Cattlemen’s Association was holding a working bee Wednesday at the Stratton cattle barn in preparation for this Saturday’s calf sale. “It’s the cattlemen’s annual feeder sale,” noted RRCA president Tom Morrish. “It’ll be mostly calves, this spring’s calves,” he noted. “An educated guess would be around 1,200 […]
They may been rookies to the annual Great Chili Cook-off but the Fort Frances Times’ team of Rosanne Kellar and Jennifer Dent wooed the three judges with their “2001: A Chili Odyssey” last Friday. “I knew we had really good chili but I didn’t know how the judges would react […]
Last Thursday (Sept. 27), grade seven and eight students (and some in grade six) from Crossroads School, along with four adults, experienced firsthand what it’s like to be in a house when it’s full of smoke–and the smoke increases second by second. Devlin/La Vallee Fire Chief Leo Pruys arranged for […]
The draw for the final 40 openings in the 2002 Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship will take place tonight live on Channel 11, with 106 teams vying for the coveted spots. The new “double-dip” option, introduced this year to allow both anglers to put their names in the draw, was […]
Doug Anderson of Fort Frances, chairman of the Rainy River Valley Safety Coalition, has been elected to the Canadian Safe Communities Foundation’s board of directors. “I think the board of directors wanted input from the communities that have been ‘safe communities’ for several years,” Anderson said Tuesday, referring to his […]
For longtime hunter Ray Coran, the opening of moose and deer season is his favourite time of year. “I like that first weekend because you get that first run,” he remarked. “They’re not spooked yet. They don’t pair up and there’s more of those gun shy ones.” “I just love […]
