The Fort Frances Armwrestling Club went over the top here Saturday, winning several trophies at the Northwestern Ontario showdown at Memorial Arena in conjunction with the Little Amik Winter Carnival. About 50 armwrestlers took part in the tournament, which attracted several of the top competitors from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Northwestern […]
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The arena project is slated to get back on track next Monday, when town council has scheduled a meeting with “Ice for Kids” at 5:30 p.m. And this time round, Mayor Glenn Witherspoon said the whole of council will be involved in the decision-making. “When we get their input and […]
Melanie Bodnar, who earned top honours at the annual “Quest for the Best” competition here Friday night, isn’t thinking twice about what she wants to do with her $500 first prize. “I want to use it towards making a [voice] demo tape,” she said Monday night from Winnipeg, where she […]
The Association of Municipalities of Ontario is demanding the province keep its promise–or else. But what they’ll do if the province doesn’t has not been discussed yet, AMO president Michael Power said last night from Toronto. “I think what we have to do, to be very blunt, is that we […]
The Little Amik Winter Carnival has come and gone–but what a carnival it was. Heather Herbert, executive director of the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce, said this year’s edition was an “overwhelming success,” noting many events were filled to capacity. Even new events, like as the cribbage, chess, and Nintendo […]
Costs will be divvied up throughout the district as Rainy River District Ontario Works takes over management of child care, social housing, Family Benefits Allowance, and Ontario Works. And that means some municipalities will be billed for child care even if they don’t have day cares, toy libraries, and resource […]
It’s an off-Broadway musical revue about the best of Broadway. Fort Frances High School’s “Broadway Musical Revue,” which runs today through Friday at 8 p.m. in the J.A. Mathieu Auditorium, will feature songs from “Phantom of the Opera,” “Les Miserables,” and “Tommy” just to name a few. “There’s an awful […]
Four women enrolled in Confederation College’s International Business course will get an invaluable training lesson in their field when they travel to Mexico at the end of the month. Anita Barker, Lori Godin, Angela Halvorsen, and Patti Jorgensen take the course at the Fort Frances campus through tele-conferencing with the […]
Last Thursday’s meeting here on men’s wellness issues only drew 10 participants but those who did arrive were “very eager to discuss the issues,” the facilitator said. Bill Morgenstern, who helped facilitate the meeting at Huffman School in conjunction with the Northwestern Health Unit, said Fort Frances had one of […]
The middle of February–the traditional time for Canadians to book cruises in the exotic Caribbean. But given the lowly Canadian dollar vis-a-vis the American greenback of late, going on a cruise paid for in U.S. funds isn’t all that economical. So Fort Frances Little Theatre is offering local residents a […]
It’s tax time. As most adults fumble through their 1997 income tax return, or are still procrastinating about it, a group of students has started learning how to make their money work for them. “What you learn in this course can make you a millionaire.” That’s the catchy subhead of […]
The Rainy River District Municipal Association may have to wait before it sees an independent audit on the Northwestern Health Unit because the Kenora District Municipal Association failed to pass a similar resolution at its annual meeting in Dryden. “That didn’t even come to the floor,” Dryden Mayor Roger Valley, […]
