More than 40 people lined the benches at Monday night’s council meeting to oppose the possibility of an escort service being established in Fort Frances. They were there in support of Salvation Army envoy Eric Alcock, who presented a petition with more than 300 signatures to council asking it prevent […]
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Municipal tax bills will be in the mail by the March 10 deadline after council agreed Monday night to have the billing prepared externally rather than risk waiting to see if the town’s faulty software will be ready in time. “In the interest of being sure that we can get […]
“If you build it right, it will float.” Okay, okay, that’s not exactly how Archimedes, the ancient Greek mathematician, would have described his principle of “mass equals buoyancy.” But it does sum up what three grade eight science classes at Robert Moore School learned about cardboard boats last week. Under […]
Cellular phone service between Fort Frances and Atikokan should be up and running as early as June after provincial funding finally came through. And service could be extended all the way to Thunder Bay by the end of the year. After being granted $1.75 million by the Northern Ontario Heritage […]
The new arena under construction here received plenty of praise as town councillors, “Ice for Kids” members, and the media went on the first tour of the facility Friday afternoon. Sporting an NHL-sized ice surface, 993 seats, an expansive lobby, and change rooms at least twice the size of the […]
“It’s a step up for us,” Nancy Gibb, of Pro Picture Framing, said of the move she and members of the Fine Line Gallery made to 529 Mowat Ave., where they opened up a bigger and brighter shop Wednesday morning. “I’m glad there was room for both of us–we’re compatible […]
Some 64 students at Donald Young School in Emo took part in a poster contest with the message, “Raise Values Above Violence.” “We had a very good response,” noted Brigette Schulzki, adding the three judges from St. Patrick’s CWL had a hard time choosing the winners. “I wish we could […]
The local Sunset Country Ford Mustangs ‘AA’ Atoms finished fourth at a 32-team hockey tournament in Fargo, N.D. last weekend, losing 5-1 to West Valley, Cal. in the third-place game. Josh Sigurdson had put the Mustangs up 1-0 in the first period but West Valley stormed back with five unanswered […]
For 14 years, Doug Pearson has had five days off a week. He lives in a house he built himself, with a basement he dug by hand. He grounds his own wheat, and travels everywhere by bike. “It’s kind of like the back to the earth movement from the ’50s […]
Science isn’t something that interests me a great deal but when I walked into the first Crossroads science fair last Wednesday afternoon, I was absolutely amazed at the projects. Students in grades four-eight had entered the science fair, which meant about 125 projects that had to be viewed and judged. […]
Everyone aged 15 to 29 who’s ever thought of starting their own business can get take a step in the right direction by attending the Rainy River Future Development Corp.’s youth entrepreneurship workshop March 16 at the Red Dog Inn. “It’s a free workshop based on youth getting their own […]
“Joan Allison and her special events committee put the ‘fun’ in fundraising,” Teresa Hazel told guests attending Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s third-annual fundraiser dinner here Saturday night. More than 200 guests raised over $21,000 in support of district hospital projects but Hazel said the real success of this year’s […]
