The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce is holding a corn roast in conjunction with the BIA’s Harvest Festival tomorrow to raise money for town beautification. Now that summer is over, it is time to think about projects for next year, which includes fundraising. “The more money we can raise, the […]
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The two-day blood donor clinic that wrapped up here Thursday fell well short of its goal. “We had a total of 368 donors and that’s short of our quota of 425,” said Marnee Miller of the La Verendrye hospital auxiliary, which helped organize the clinic locally. The clinic, held at […]
The second-annual “Fly-in, Drive-in” barbecue is ready to take off Saturday at the Fort Frances Airport–providing Mother Nature co-operates. “It’s looking good if you just give us good weather,” organizer Bruce Caldwell noted. At least 14 planes plan to land at the airport Saturday morning for the barbecue, which also […]
Communities across Rainy River District that suffered varying degrees of damage and loss because of severe weather July 31 will receive disaster relief funding. Northern Development and Mines minister Dan Newman announced yesterday that eight municipalities, including Fort Frances, and two unorganized areas will receive funding through the Ontario Disaster […]
The Ministry of Natural Resources was scheduled to ignite an 800-hectare prescribed burn in the North Basswood Lake area of Quetico Park today. The fire aims to burn off heavy blowdown timber that remains in the park from a severe windstorm that passed through that area in 1999, the MNR […]
The Muskie girls’ hockey team enter their second season of existence, and their first as an official high school sport, with tryouts this week. The team had hammered out the details of forming a NorWOSSA league with Dryden, Kenora, and possibly Sioux Lookout at the end of last season. In […]
In preparation for their post-secondary education, Fort High students will get a chance to learn about what’s out there for them at the Ontario college tour Friday and university one Monday. And if and when students do decide, they’ll all be applying to schools a little differently this year–through the […]
The crowds, loud music, and potential drama for an exciting finish all were under the big tent Sunday for the final five weigh-ins of the third-annual Rainy River walleye tournament. Unfortunately, the fish were not. The top two boats from the first day Saturday failed to catch any fish on […]
“Build it and they will come,” an oft-repeated catch-phrase of the town’s economic development officer, was emphasized by Fort Frances CAO Bill Naturkach upon his return from the annual “Northern Networks” trade conference in Green Bay, Wis. last week. The conference highlighted several economic development initiatives, among them the idea […]
There’s an old picture which former Fort Frances Canadian Pete Makarchuk owns. It’s of the late Ray Frederick, his friend and former neighbour, in his goaltending prime as a Chicago Blackhawk trying to stop Montreal Canadiens’ great Maurice “Rocket” Richard during a 1955 game. “I don’t think Richard got it […]
It looks like the final cuts for the local Taggs ‘AA’ Bantam hockey team will go right down to the wire. The team’s coaching staff held a three-day tryout sessions almost two weeks ago but admitted the roster choices made then–and ones still going to made–have been extremely tough. So […]
Canadian Blood Services (CBS) resumes its annual Northwestern Ontario fall tour this week with two mobile blood donor clinics at Fort Frances High School. The clinics will be held Wednesday, Sept. 26 and again Thursday, Sept. 27. “Canadians have shown an incredible outpouring of support in response to the recent […]
