Hannah Anderson put her tickets in the pumpkin raffle at the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market on Saturday. An assortment of beautifully-decorated pumpkins were up for grabs, with proceeds going to support the Riverside Foundation for Health Care. Saturday also marked the final farmers’ market for the season, with the Christmas […]
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Robin McCormick was one of the actors who presented the skit “Live, Love, and Laugh” during the second-annual Seniors’ Lifestyle Expo on Saturday at the Fort Frances High School. The humerous skit touched on a lot of health-related topics for seniors. Meanwhile, a variety of booths were set up in […]
Dressed as pirates, students from St. Michael’s School presented Fort Frances Public Library board chairperson Joyce Cunningham with a “treasure” this morning. The students in Paulette Romaniuk’s Grade 3 class and Tina Gurski’s Grade 2 class collected a total of $48.75 in coins to donate to the “Building for the […]
Fort Frances Jr. Sabres’ defenceman MacKenzie York read a Hallowe’en story to students in Heather Bridgeman’s Grade 1/2 class at J.W. Walker School yesterday as his teammate and brother, Matthew, looked on. Several of the team’s players stopped by the school to share in storytime with the youngsters.
Harry Steiner, originally from the U.S., was presented with his Canadian citizenship certificate from Citizenship Judge Arthur Miki during a ceremony at the Fort Frances Courthouse yesterday afternoon.
Contractors continued paving Central Avenue this morning. Crews started the work on Tuesday, and already have completed the 100 block of Church Street. The 100 block of Scott Street also will be paved, and a new brick sidewalk also is being installed on Central Avenue right now. Once the paving […]
Jack Fafard spoke to students at St. Francis School yesterday about his experiences and work with the Casa Amparo Orphanage in Reynosa, Mexico. Later that day, students also heard from Fr. Pat Martin, who talked about mission work.
Members of the “Boobettes” (Sue Jones, left, Ginette Anderson, and Shawne Crowe) acted out some of the more primitive means of getting a mammogram throughout history at the Rainy River Breast Health Network’s “Luncheon of Hope” on Saturday.
Moving along right on schedule, the steel framework for the new biomass boiler building started going up today at the site located on Portage Avenue and Sinclair Street. In the next three to five weeks, the entire steel structure should be completed. The concrete for the stoker foundation, which the […]
Rob Barron, Laurie Hogan, and Rick Collette looked on as Fort High teacher Kelly Connor, who teaches the hospitality course there, poured a marinade during a cooking class last Wednesday at the high school. The course, done through Confederation College, taught a class of eight people how to prepare a […]
CN Police Cst. Pete LeDrew educated Wilma Kooistra’s Grade 4 and 5 class on railway safety at the Queen Street crossing in Emo on Monday.
The Muskie junior girls fought for the ball under both nets in NorWOSSA action yesterday against the visiting Kenora Broncos. But despite some improved and, at times inspired, play, the squad ultimately fell 29-17.
