The Riverside Healthcare Foundation’s DI Dash Picture This campaign was a success after many volunteers and participants took part to raise money to purchase scanning equipment. They managed to raise $17,000 in donations and pledges. Fort Frances Mayor June Caul presented a $60,000 check from the town and Mike Ford, […]
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By Ken Kellar
Staff writer
kkellar@fortfrances.com
Staff writer
kkellar@fortfrances.com
An area artist is the focus of a brand-new exhibit at the Fort Frances Museum and Cultural Centre. Titled “All Of Us One Family,” the exhibit features the artwork of Tony Sepers, a Dutch-born artist who lives in Berglund. Sepers says he has been an artist for as long as […]
By Allan Bradbury
Staff Writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com
Staff Writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com
After a season shortened by the pandemic and a team picking up the pieces after a coaching controversy, a familiar hand has come back to town hoping to help right the ship. Dave Allison loves the Rainy River District. He has a cabin on an island in the lake so […]
By Merna Emara
Staff Writer
memara@fortfrances.com
Staff Writer
memara@fortfrances.com
It was a windy Saturday as skeet shooting enthusiasts and veterans gathered to enjoy the first skeet shoot off since 2016 at the Sportsmen’s Club Skeet Range. The long awaited event was attended by shooters, their families and some children. There were seven shooters: Ted Brockie, Connor Dent, Brad Houghton, […]
Break out the brooms and get ready to hurry hard, a new season is getting underway at the Fort Frances Curling Club. While the world isn’t quite out from under the spectre of COVID-19, curling club board member Christine Denby said the club is gearing back up for a new […]
By Allan Bradbury
Staff Writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com
Staff Writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com
The Fort Frances Lakers season starts this weekend with a game in Dryden Friday night, amid COVID-19 restrictions and a continued hunt for billet families. After the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the 2020-2021 season of SIJHL hockey, the league is getting underway for the 21-22 season […]
By Robin McCormick
The annual NFN Bass/Walleye Classic held Friday and Saturday (September 10/11) was once again a huge success. Over 30 teams participated and none were disappointed in the amount of work and hospitality put into this event. When the final bags were weighed, first place was taken by Mike Wilson and […]
Press release
Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU) advises the public that there has been an increase in COVID-19 cases among unvaccinated residents in the Emo area. An outbreak associated with Sturgeon Creek Alternative Program (SCAP) and SonShine Christian Kindergarten has been declared and affects many households and age groups. By provincial definition, an […]
Mysterious, but uplifting, Post-it notes featuring encouraging messages have recently popped up on lamposts and other surfaces all across Fort Frances. The post-its have been spotted downtown, in the Walmart parking lot and almost everywhere in-between. Different messages seem to have different handwriting, suggesting a well organized, but secretive, collective […]
By Liam Casey
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO – Two police officers escorted Faye Doiron and Randy Longaphie as they left Toronto General Hospital on Monday, helping the pair make their way through a crowd of protesters denouncing pandemic measures. Doiron, who came to Toronto from Prince Edward Island to wait for a lung transplant, was leaving […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Linda O’Leary has been found not guilty of careless operation of a vessel in a boat crash that killed two people in central Ontario two years ago. O’Leary, the wife of celebrity businessman Kevin O’Leary, was charged under the Canada Shipping Act following the Aug. 24, 2019 collision on Lake […]
TORONTO – Don’t store away those cutoffs and sandals just yet; The Weather Network says there are still warm days to come this year. The network says in its fall forecast that much of Canada can expect some spells of warm temperatures in the next month or so, mixed in […]
