Ken Kellar It’s the spookiest waiting room you’ll ever see during Fort Frances High School’s fall play “Scared Silly,” opening tonight at the Townshend Theatre. The play will feature nine short skits, each offering a bite-sized portion of scares and laughs to thrill and chill all the “boys and ghouls” […]
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Ken Kellar The new music and arts space at St. Mary School is another of the rooms that looks almost ready to welcome students. The storage area along the back wall has custom designed spaces for the different instruments and cases that will be used.
Ann Guba, left, joined her mother, Adelia Guba, for sandwiches and tea at the annual Emo and District Hospital Auxiliary fall tea, bazaar and bake sale at the Emo Legion on Friday. -Sam Odrowski photos
Morgan Hildebrand, left, Gordon Woollard, and Neil Grant enjoyed hot beverages along with dainties and sandwiches at the Emo and District Hospital Auxiliary fall tea, bazaar and bake sale on Friday. The popular event featured draws, baking, the “white elephant” table, and crafts. -Sam Odrowski photo
Ken Kellar Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s special events committee members Natalie DeGagne, left, Grace Cridland, McKenna Begin, Livia Lundon, Allison Cox, Lynne Savage and Jan Abbot displayed a few of the collected items that will be put up for silent auction at the foundation’s “Black & White Gala” this […]
Sam Odrowski Fort Frances Public Library board chair Robin Dennis gave a speech to kick off Ontario Public Library Week at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre yesterday evening during a party to mark the annual event. Around 30 people attended and had the opportunity to meet the library’s […]
Donald Young School students were brought out to the Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung grounds Friday for Rainy River First Nation’s reparation and reburial of sacred objects and ancestors. Students from Our Lady of the Way and a handful from Fort High also attended. Chief Robin McGinnis said it was very important for the […]
Ken Kellar Construction at the new St. Mary School in Fort Frances continues, though some rooms like this one in the part of the school that will be used for daycare space are closer to completion. The school won’t be at substantial completion until Oct. 31 at the earliest, and […]
Morgan Hildebrand, left, Gordon Woollard, and Neil Grant enjoyed hot beverages along with dainties and sandwiches at the fall tea, bazaar and bake sale on Friday. The popular event featured draws, baking, the “white elephant” table, and crafts. -Sam Odrowski photo
Rose Sharp, left, and Donna Jewett ran the penny table where a variety of donated items were raffled off to lucky attendees of the Emo and District Hospital Auxiliary’s fall tea, bazaar and bake sale Friday afternoon at the Emo Legion. -Sam Odrowski photo
Two of the 1,706 head of cattle that were sold at the Stratton sales barn on Saturday enjoyed some hay outside before being put through the ring and auctioned off to buyers. Last weekend’s sale generated nearly $1.8-million. -Sam Odrowski photo
Kathy Bombay left, elder Dorothy Medicine, Verna Leonard, Reta Johnson, and Art Hunter gathered around a sacred fire where tobacco offerings were placed during Rainy River First Nation’s (RRFN) reparation and reburial of sacred objects and ancestors on Friday. Up to 100 ancestors and roughly 5,000 artifacts were brought back […]
