The bank accounts may be dwindling but there is enough money to pay off all existing debts–and still have about $410,000 to play with. That’s the news town auditor Jock Spence, with BDO Dunwoody here, brought to council Monday night in his 1997 financial report, which showed the town has […]
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Gord Keesic and Jacquee Savage are looking for people who are looking for a summer job. The pair are summer employment officers with the local Human Resources Development Canada Centre for Students, more commonly known as the Canada Employment Centre for Students, which opened here last week. Both students themselves, […]
Municipal leaders want a Northern Services board and they want it as soon as possible. In fact, the Rainy River District Municipal Association is lobbying the province to give the Northern Services Improvement Act second reading immediately–and third reading by the fall, it decided at a meeting in Emo last […]
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. and its unionized employees don’t have much time to hammer out a collective agreement, with workers threatening to walk off the job June 15 if they don’t. That decision came after a 95 percent strike vote was tallied last Wednesday in Ottawa. Cecil Makowski, administrative vice-president for the […]
A community group has been struck to come up with the $500,000 needed to make the Emo Health Centre ready for the 12 long-term care beds slated to transfer there from Rainycrest Home for the Aged next April 1. At a meeting attended by some 15 catchment area reps last […]
It’s too early to make an accurate count but it’s estimated more than 100,000 fry have safely hatched and started feeding at the Manitou Rapids sturgeon hatchery. “It’s hard to tell because we haven’t inventoried them yet,” aquaculture technician Joe Hunter said Monday, adding they had to wait until the […]
If numbers speak for themselves, the tourism industry has been doing lots of talking here since May 15. Over the last two weekends alone, some 3,900 visitors have walked through the doors at the Ontario travel centre here–a good indication the local tourist season is about to shift into high […]
Mayor Glenn Witherspoon gave his word but council didn’t pass a bylaw Monday night prohibiting casinos, including charitable gaming clubs, inside town limits. That has the Fort Frances Ministerial Association going back to its membership next month to decide what to do next–and chairwoman Rev. Mary Whitson noted it might […]
A chance gust of wind is being blamed for causing a float plane to overturn on Lakeland Bay just east of here a week ago Saturday, according to a report from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. It also is known now that the mishap occurred after the pilot aborted […]
Seventeen riders are gathering pledges this week as the Northwestern Ontario Therapeutic Riding Association gears up for its third-annual “Freedom Ride” on Saturday. The ride is slated to start at 1 p.m. (or at the same time Sunday if it’s raining). But instead of making the trip to Wasaw Lake […]
The Muskie girls’ soccer team heads into this weekend’s NorWOSSA playoffs here as the top seed after finishing 3-0-1 at a tournament last week in Kenora. The girls opened play Wednesday with a 6-0 drubbing over Dryden, paced by goals from Laureen Cousineau (two), Lynn Pollard, Lindy Holt, Tanya Hughes, […]
The Muskie girls soccer team have proven to be the class of NorWOSSA so far this season, finishing atop the standings after two tournaments and now head into this weekend’s playoff as the number-one seed. But head coach Struchan Gilson knows full well the playoffs are a much different story–recalling […]
