Submitted A chickadee eating at one of Jeff Gustafson’s bird feeders.
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Duane Hicks Tbaytel president and CEO Dan Topatigh, centre, did the honours as vice-president and chief information and technology officer, Simone Laatu and Coun. Ken Perry looked on yesterday during a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially launch the company’s new “Fibre” fibre optic services in Fort Frances. An announcement was made […]
Staff The annual Remembrance Day Tea once again drew a large crowd yesterday from 2-4 p.m. upstairs at the local Legion, where the walls were adorned with old photos primarily featuring wartime veterans. Meanwhile, the downstairs clubroom was filled with baking, a candy table, cookie walk, sales of cabbage rolls, […]
Duane Hicks When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When it gives you snow, make snowmen. As many residents were busy shovelling and using snow blowers over the weekend, some youngsters on Colonization Road West built this jolly fellow. The short-term forecast is for partly cloudy and cold conditions but […]
Duane Hicks Blues singer Samantha Martin, backed up by her band, “Delta Sugar,” blew away the “Tour de Fort” audience with a powerful performance Friday night at the Townshend Theatre. Next up in the 2017-18 enterainment series is Vancouver-based indie folk collective, “The Fugitives,” who will play here Jan. 18.
Staff After hovering around 109.9 cents/litre for most of the past several months, gas prices here have taken a big jump. Safeway, for instance, was advertising a price of 121.9 cents/litre for regular yesterday afternoon while the Husky station on King’s Highway was listed at 119.9 cents/litre.
Submitted Two Sunset Country whitetail bucks crossed paths in front of Jeff Gustafson’s trail camera.
Duane Hicks A crew from Pioneer Paving laid some hot asphalt at the corner of Scott Street and Mowat Avenue yesterday. They were paving the areas of Scott Street that were removed for the installation of curb works for the new Rainy Lake Square, as well as a portion of […]
Duane Hicks Dressed in the spirit of Oktoberfest, Debbie Collett admired some of the vintage clothing on display during the Friends of the Fort Frances Museum’s “Novemberfest” fall fundraiser gala last night. The successful event, which also featured food, drink, live music, and a live auction, drew a full house […]
Staff Dr. Cody Caul of the Fort Frances Chiropractic Centre drew the lucky winner of this month’s “Trip of the Month” draw as Kiwanian Robin Wright looked on yesterday at International Travel Services here. Jay and Kathryn Cuthbertson of Courtice, Ont. will be heading to Barcelona, Spain–a trip valued at […]
Nicholas Donaldson Paul Patterson, treasurer of the Fort Frances Lions Club, looked on as Safeway manager Kevin Langford drew the name of the second early-bird winner of the club’s annual food draw there Monday. Betty McLeod was the winner of the $100 food gift certificate from Safeway, with the next […]
Duane Hicks Like a pack of hungry velociraptors, trick-or-treaters converged on the United Native Friendship Centre Circle of Life Centre’s “Jurassic Park” display during the fourth-annual “Trunk or Treat” on Tuesday at the Fort Frances Public Library’s parking lot. The UNFC had an inter-organizational challenge going on with a total […]
