Duane Hicks Safeway second manager Tyler Wojtanowski, left, drew the third early-bird winner in the Fort Frances Lions Club’s food draw yesterday at Safeway as club treasurer Paul Patterson looked on. DeDe McCool won a $100 food gift card from Safeway. Other early-bird draws will be held Nov. 30 and […]
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Duane Hicks The most recent group of “Canada 150” pin recipients proudly showed off their pins and certificates in the foyer at the Civic Centre on Tuesday evening following town council’s meeting. Another batch of volunteers were saluted yesterday at the “Healthy Living Food Box” program. More pins will be […]
J.W. Walker student Shya Lee Johnson Luoma has the best poster at her school in this year’s Lions Peace Poster contest.
Duane Hicks Lori Maki, left, executive vice-president and chief nursing executive for Riverside Health Care, and Jacquee Loerzel, community family violence counsellor with Riverside Community Counselling Services, joined Coun. June Caul in marking the “Shine the Light” campaign’s “Wear Purple Day” yesterday to honour and stand in solidarity with those […]
Duane Hicks Cde. Wendy Derendorf recited the “Act of Remembrance” during Saturday’s Remembrance Day ceremony here. The passage recited is: “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old/Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn/At the going down of the sun and in the morning/We […]
Duane Hicks Pastor Brian Keffer recited the benediction during the Remembrance Day ceremony here Saturday. Travis Enge performed “Last Post” and “Reveille” while Roger Dolyny sang “O Canada,” “The Star Spangled Banner,” and “God Save the Queen.” The sound was loud and clear thanks to Cliff Pidlubny of TopMusic Productions.
Fort High student Emma Cole, right, recited her portion of Lt. Col. John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields,” as fellow student Lillie MacKinnon listened intently, during Saturday’s Remembrance Day ceremony here.
Duane Hicks Lt. Ryan MacDonald of the local Salvation Army, left, joined Rhonda F., Jill Pernsky, Donna Haney, Coun. John Albanese, and Denise Onichuk to kick off the annual Christmas kettle campaign yesterday morning at Walmart here. Kettles also are out at Safeway and Canadian Tire, and starting Dec. 1 […]
Nicholas Donaldson Byron Stewart and Siobhan MacKintosh gave a reading of “Au champ d’honneur” during the Fort Frances High School Remembrance Day assembly on Friday. During the morning service at the Townshend Theatre, students sang songs, read poems, and participated in a moment of silence in honour of Canada’s war […]
Duane Hicks Sophie Ballan carried a wreath to place at the foot of the cenotaph in memory of her late husband, Pete Ballan Sr., during the Remembrance Day ceremony here. He had joined the Royal Canadian Navy at the age of 18, serving during WWII on convoy duty in the […]
Duane Hicks Cde. Warren Anderson, left, first vice-president of the Royal Canadian Legion Br. #29, and Gary Lockhart gave a solemn salute after Anderson placed a wreath at the foot of the cenotaph during the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Fort Frances Cemetery.
