Seventy years ago in a forested area near Emo, a young boy of 13 embarked on a career that he’s still doing to this day. While most men his age are enjoying their retirement, 83- year-old Chris Loveday is still getting up every morning to take his place as the […]
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High spirits and obliging weather made for a successful second-annual kayakers’ symposium here last weekend. So successful, in fact, that organizers Eric and Caren Fagerdahl, who own Rainy Lake Boatworks, already are planning for next summer. “We’re thinking of paddling to Crow Rock next time,” Eric Fagerdahl said. “Lots of […]
Fort Frances Times published Jim Cumming received the Canadian Community Newspaper Association “President’s Award” on Saturday during its annual convention in Saskatoon. The presentation took place the same evening Cumming officially was elected first vice-president of the CCNA, to which the Times has belonged since 1934. The award–a hand-blown Nova […]
“They have come home with a lot of really good memories that are going to last them their whole life.” That was how Boy Scout leader Don Manty described the recent trip he and four local Scouts took to the Canadian Jamboree on Cabot Beach in Prince Edward Island. The […]
Charges have yet to be laid against the two inmates accused of orchestrating a standoff with police and correctional officers at the Fort Frances Jail last month. “There are still some aspects of the investigation that have to be completed before [the OPP are] in a position to lay criminal […]
A cow–mysteriously beheaded–was found floating in the Rainy River in an eddy just west of Manitou Rapids. “It was headless, upstream of Manitou Rapids,” noted Jennifer Mercer, co-ordinator of the Rainy River First Nation Watershed Program. “It’s out and it’s been buried by one of our community members,” she added. […]
Although the United Native Friendship Centre here has been holding its “head start” program for aboriginal youth for the past five years, co-ordinator Charity McMahon still finds herself getting excited with each new year. “Each time we hold this program, we get a new group of children to work with,” […]
Sincere sympathy is extended to Don McTavish and his children as they go through the extreme hardship of losing their wife and mother, Shannon. Shannon suffered a long bout of illness before her passing last week. I’ll always remember Shannon for the wonderful sewing. I remember her children always had […]
Last summer, it was Shania Twin. This year, a Garth Brooks “double” will confound the audience tomorrow night at the Sorting Gap Marina as part of this week’s Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship festivities. That would be Les Smith, lead singer of “Fresh Horses,” a Garth Brooks tribute band based […]
A canoe race open to all entrants and old-style hay threshing are among the many activities scheduled for the third-annual “Chapple Days” in Barwick on Aug. 10-11. “I think there’s probably something for every age there,” noted organizer Rilla Race. “We try to gear it to families.” The events will […]
During a public session Monday night to gather input on the town’s 2002 budget, only two residents had suggestions to offer council. Bruno Seppala, a long-time resident of Fort Frances, had a number of suggestions catering to senior citizens. They included an increase in fines for people parking in handicapped […]
Starting in August, the Rainy River District School Board no longer will have bus drivers as board employees, instead employing strictly contract drivers. Darlene Ferniuk, the board’s communications and transportation co-ordinator, said Tuesday the decision was made due to the high cost of maintaining the buses, or in her words, […]
