Heather Latter Four-year-old cousins Olivia, left, and Chloe Allen stopped by the Makabi Inn on Saturday to have their picture taken with Santa Claus before he headed back to the North Pole to get ready to make his annual Christmas Eve rounds.
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Heather Latter With a renovation of both the interior and exterior now complete, the local McDonald’s restaurant re-opened for business Friday. An official opening is planned for Jan. 5.
Duane Hicks Participants of all ages declared they would be “Idle No More” on Friday, walking from Couchiching First Nation to Fort Frances and then through town, carrying signs in support of Chief Theresa Spence while opposing the Harper government and Bill C-45.
Heather Latter Former Fort Frances resident Joe Egan played one of the custom guitars he built. He started up his own business, called “Egan Custom Guitars,” at his home on Vancouver Island earlier this year.
Duane Hicks Lori Caron, left, was presented with $5,200 in Canada Safeway gift cards by Fort Frances Lions president Val Rose on Friday. Caron was the first-prize winner in the Lions’ groceries-for-a-year draw. Susan Allison won the second-place prize of $1,000. The Lions sold all 1,500 tickets for the draw. […]
Lucas Punkari Annalise Hayes, Mikel Ward, and Caleb Bruyere held up a sign supporting the Bauer “Own the Moment” campaign that last year’s Fort Frances ‘AA’ Atom Canadians currently are involved in. As of press time, the squad currently sits in second place in the voting, with a chance to […]
Duane Hicks Jace Alexa was somewhat in awe of Santa Claus yesterday afternoon during a Christmas party at the Fort Frances Day Care’s before- and after-school program at Robert Moore School. Jolly St. Nick has been a busy fellow, appearing at children’s parties across town all this week. He is […]
Heather Latter Thea Denby, a student in Sarah Kivimaki’s early-learning class at Robert Moore School, decorated a gingerbread house with candy decorations there yesterday. Parents and grandparents were invited to share in the Christmas activity with the youngsters to help celebrate the season.
Heather Latter Lt. Mary Maybury organized Christmas hampers at the Salvation Army yesterday. Handing out close to 200, she was thrilled by the donations and support they received from the community.
Lucas Punkari Braden Webb fired a shot on Jonah Johnson during a scrimmage yesterday afternoon between the Muskie boys’ and girls’ hockey teams, former black-and-gold players, and family members of current players. Both Fort High teams are unable to suit up for NorWOSSA play due to the cancellation of extra-curricular […]
Heather Latter Julie Parks, left, Nancy Leach, and Riley Armstrong, in Karen Peltomaki’s early-learning class, sang a song called “Santa” yesterday for family members gathered in the classroom. As part of their Christmas celebration, the youngsters also made some Christmas crafts, then gathered in the gym with the other early-learning […]
Submitted Fort Frances Power Corp. line crew members conducted emergency rescue drills yesterday. FFPC crews practised pole top and bucket rescue techniques to rescue an injured powerline technician. The crews also performed bucket evacuation drills—a method of safely evacuating and descending from an inoperable bucket truck. Fort Frances Fire Dept. […]
