Five-year-old Simone Payne, left, Mya Hamilton, four, and Samara Payne, six, got a closer look at the all the levers and switches on a Fort Frances Fire Department pumper truck during the “Spring Into Fire Safety” event Saturday morning at Canadian Tire. Firefighters were on hand to answer questions and […]
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A sign advertising the “Future Home of Boston Pizza” has been erected on property just west of the Super 8 Motel here. The company reported this morning that construction is expected to begin in July, with the business opening its doors in December.
Students and staff at Crossroads School in Devlin were treated to traditional music, courtesy of Naicatchewenin First Nation residents as well as dancers from Pickle Lake, during the school’s second-annual pow-wow yesterday.
People got the chance to pose with a real live bear yesterday afternoon at the Shrine Circus at the Memorial Sports Centre. The many circus-goers could not help but “ooohh” and “aaahh” while the bears danced and slid down slides as part of their show. Afterwards, young and old alike […]
Jean Richards of the Fine Line Art Gallery checked out how some artwork will jibe with the new paint scheme there. The gallery will be closed today through Saturday as it gets re-decorated, then will reopen its doors Monday with a bright new interior.
Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce manager Dawn Booth looked over the list of flower basket sponsors during the official launch of “Project Petunia” on at the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market here earlier this month. The Chamber will be helping beautify Fort Frances with 60 flower baskets and 20 planters this […]
Ken Anderson’s Midwest Modified stock car had to be towed off the track after suffering a hard crash into the retaining barrier at the Borderland Racing Association’s season-opener at the Emo Speedway on Saturday night.
Chief Jim Leonard, left, and others silently read the monument to the First Nations war veterans which formally was unveiled at Manitou Rapids on Friday afternoon. Youth of the community read the names which are carved in the momunment aloud as others stood by in reverence.
Customer Raylene Hebert, with daughter, Madeline, left, joined with Jim, Blair, Donna, and Chris Lowey, along with “Bandit,” for a ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday to celebrate the grand-opening of Lowey’s Greenhouse and Market Gardens, which was rebuilt after a fire there last winter. Though the wind was quite chilly outside, the […]
Inside the water tower, Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown showed one of the reasons why the rehabilitation project is a must—highlighting the rust on the piping system from the water boiler.
Elder Willie Wilson, Veteran of the Honour Guard Tim Sinclair, Treaty #3 Grand Council Chief Arnold Gardner, and Deborah Richardson, with Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, stood at attention during a ceremonial Veterans Drum, which was played during the War Veteran and Armed Forces Monument unveiling ceremony Friday afternoon at […]
It was a colourful scene at Fort Frances High School this morning as a traditional pow-wow was held to culminate Aboriginal Week activities there.
