The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce is wrapping up the first step of its business retention and expansion project next week with the aim to move on to analyzing its findings this summer. The project started back in April when volunteers began surveying 100 local businesses chosen from various sectors. […]
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Take your Dad out for a special lunch at Clover Valley Farmers’ Market this Saturday (June 17). To celebrate Fathers’ Day, Tess Coish of Tess’s Kitchen has planned a fundraising fish fry from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The lunch costs $7.50, and includes deep-fried fish, salads, and baked beans. […]
With July 1 just around the corner, the local “Friends of Animals” is getting ready for its first float to take to the streets during the annual Canada Day parade. “We are really excited about the parade and our first float,” said chairwoman Susan Cousineau. “We have designed a float […]
While nutrition and child safety always have been part of the “Healthy Babies, Healthy Children” home visit program, the Northwestern Health Unit has adopted another area–scalds and burns–to inform new parents about. And during a visit to the home of local couple Chris and Nikki Wiedenhoeft, along with son, Nicholas, […]
Several entries were received by Tuesday’s noon deadline in the logo/slogan contest being held by the Fort Frances Centennial Committee. “We received six logos and, coincidentally, six slogans. It’s a good response,” CAO Bill Naturkach, a committee member, said Tuesday after meeting with the rest of the committee for a […]
Put two mill workers, a construction worker, and an Internet provider on stage in a local bar with instruments, surround them with crowds, and what do you get? The Poor Boys. The group, which officially formed in 1995 as Willie and the Poor Boys, has made a name for itself […]
Grade eight students at St. Francis School here were given a unique opportunity for their class trip when they travelled to Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba last week for a three-day covered wagon tour and wilderness camping trip. The 29 students and their chaperones were dropped off at the […]
The World Health Organization’s Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion officially has given the nod to Rainy River District to host the 11th International Conference on Safe Communities next May. In making the announcement, centre president Leif Svanstrom, noted district residents and businesses have developed programs that are the envy […]
Put two mill workers, a construction worker, and an Internet provider on stage in a local bar with instruments, surround them with crowds, and what do you get? The Poor Boys. The group, which officially formed in 1995 as Willie and the Poor Boys, has made a name for itself […]
Eleven district 4-H club members held a bake sale at the Chapple flea market last weekend to help raise money for a nine-day exchange with their counterparts in Quebec this summer. “Everybody is twinned and you stay at their house and then they stay at our house,” noted Joanne Neilson, […]
Last Thursday, residents of Big Island First Nation and guests officially opened their new band office. The $1.1-million building has been a dream of band manager Val Pizey since 1983 when the population moved from its old reserve on Big Island to the mainland. The first band office was an […]
Linda Woodcock, the OFAH travelling teacher, came to Crossroads School on June 4 to conduct workshops on environmental studies with grades two, two/three, five/six, and eight classes. She talked about animal habitats and how animals are adapted to where they live. The four things every animal needs are food, water, […]
