The Fort Frances Overseas Wives Club marked its 50th anniversary by placing red roses on the resting places of deceased members at Riverview Cemetery on Monday–a tribute never undertaken before here. Only six of the some 40 women that once made up the original “War Brides” club are still alive, […]
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Spanning a full week, “Fun in the Sun” committee member Laurie Beadle said this year’s summer celebration will be bigger and better than any in recent memory. “There’s a lot more events,” she enthused Tuesday. “We have more marching bands in the parade, and there’s lots of things for kids, […]
“After seeing what happened at the Seattle protests, you have to wonder what could be happening down there.” That’s the feeling of one local woman whose husband, an officer with the Fort Frances OPP, joined several others from the district in Windsor this week to help keep the peace at […]
The wave of forest tent caterpillars arrived sooner than expected this year. But the good news for those who have been spraying down their walls and wrapping tin foil around their trees is that they’ll be leaving sooner than expected, too. “We expected them to cocoon in the last week […]
Radio personality John “Byrd” Kempf will be returning to Fort Frances to help launch the Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s “Care Close to Home” fundraising campaign June 15-16. “Teresa Hazel gave me a ring . . . we went to school together a long time ago,” Kempf said today from […]
“We just went out for the day.” That’s all Shaun Kocuiba wanted to do when he and five of his cousins took two boats out on Eltrut Lake, northeast of near Mine Centre, on Saturday afternoon. He never bargained they would get lost and have to spend a night on […]
Administrator Kevin Queen received word late last week from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care that Rainycrest Home for the Aged here would be reallocating 21 beds to interim status. “It’s a break. It takes a lot of the pressure off the loss,” he said, referring to the loss […]
Almost 150 people were on hand at Couchiching First Nation on Tuesday to watch the unveiling of a monument honouring 103 aboriginal war veterans. “In the Second [World War] and Korean wars, thousands of aboriginal men enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces from this community . . . they deserve […]
Pastor Dan Pearson, his wife, Leah, and their daughter, Clara, will be moving on to Minnedosa, Man. in July after five years at Off Lake Evangelical Covenant Church. They were honoured at a fond farewell party Sunday, May 29. Friends participated in the dinner and program that followed in the […]
Last Saturday morning, 16 horseback riders rode eight miles in support of the Northern Therapeutic Riding Association for the disabled during Freedom Ride 2000. The riders spent weeks collecting pledges for the ride, with the $6,051 raised to be used to feed the horses throughout the year as well as […]
RN Arlene Rae started her career at La Verendrye hospital in Fort Frances in January, 1964 and put in her last day back in December. Hopefully, this sends a message to all that our local hospital has been worthy of Rae’s excellent nursing ability for more than 35 years. Rae […]
More than 80 dancers took part in three days of dancing at the 13th-annual Weechi-It-Te-Win pow-wow here last Friday to Sunday. The pow-wow, held at the Memorial Sports Centre, attracted dancers and participants from across Northwestern Ontario and Minnesota. “This is a time for people to celebrate their culture and […]
