Aimee Pelletier, 17, and Melanie Halvorsen, 17, had the chance of a lifetime when they were accepted into the Canadian Education Exchange Foundation program. The three-month exchange landed Pelletier in Spain and Halvorsen in France. “I didn’t know any Spanish beforehand,” said Pelletier. “[But] I spent eight one-hour sessions with […]
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About 65 students showed off their co-op experience at the sixth-annual co-op display day yesterday at Fort High. Displays ranging from hairstyling to radiology and taxidermy were spread around the small gym from 9:30 a.m. until noon. Students clearly learned a lot–but not always what they thought they would. “They […]
Fort Frances resident Gisela Seis is calling her recent participation in the first-ever Canada/U.S. Businesswoman’s Trade Summit in Toronto “an experience of a lifetime,” and one packed with ideas for female entrepreneurs interested in the international marketplace. “It was a great learning experience and an inspirational one for me,” Seis, […]
It will be a battle of stomach endurance when four district residents get ready to rumble–a la mode–during the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market pie-eating showdown this Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon. Emo Reeve Brian Reid, Canadian Tire manager Ray Engelbertink, Times salesman Hugh McTaggart, and Times reporter Mark Elliott–originally […]
After more than $1 million in renovations, the float plane that flipped over on Lakeland Bay just over a year ago took to the air again last Thursday. The de Havilland single-Otter C-GUTL is used mainly to fly people and supplies to remote lodges. And the plane completed two trips […]
Both students and teachers are in for some changes due to the revised curriculum being implemented in elementary and secondary schools across the province come September. But the Rainy River District School Board announced a new measure to make that change a little easier at its regular monthly meeting here […]
About 60 people raised more than $5,300 in the seventh-annual “Hip Hip Hooray” walk Sunday, making it the most successful one yet since its inception here in 1993. Proceeds from the walk go to the Canadian Orthopedic Foundation. Jenny Wonfor, who chaired the local walk committee, said Monday she couldn’t […]
Ken Wickstrom, past president of the Fort Frances Rotary Club, was named a Paul Harris Fellow for his contributions to the Rotary Foundation in excess of $1,000 (U.S.) The Rotary Foundation funds humanitarian relief projects around the world. Wickstrom himself was part of a five-week group study exchange program, sponsored […]
The sun was shining, the horses were happy to get out of the stable and run, and the riders were pumped. All in all, it was a perfect day Saturday for the Northern Ontario Therapeutic Riding Association’s fourth-annual “Freedom Ride” starting at Trail’s End Riding Stable in Devlin. The 16 […]
Playing against the top teams in Manitoba, the local trio of John Sivonen, Gary Wager, and Evan Woodlands teamed up to place second in their division at the Red River Ex “Hoop it Up” 3-on-3 basketball tournament in Winnipeg last weekend. After dropping their first game 11-9 to a team […]
Despite nursing a sore back and completing just one set of lifts, local powerlifter Dave Mitchell placed third in his weight class at the recent national championships in Calgary. That placing in the 181-pound division, combined with the fact he had placed first in the sub-Masters’ division, assured him a […]
Karli McKinnon continued her onslaught on the Aquanauts’ record book at the Thunder Bay International Invitational last weekend–breaking three more records in her final competition in the 10 and under division. Her times of 32.37 in the 50m free, 2:36.77 in the 200m free, and 2:59.92 in the 200m I.M. […]
