Peggy Revell Grade 9 students Patrick Mills, Brody McPherson, Kole Pitkanen, and Kyle Dutka checked out a 1938 Chev during Friday afternoon’s “Wild Childz Car Club” show at Fort High. Trophies—made by students in the club—were handed out for Best Engine, Least Legal, People’s Choice, and Wild Childz choice. Funds […]
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Staff Times advertising salesperson Sue Fletcher, joined by Robin Wright, drew the June winner of the Kiwanis Club’s “Trip of the Month” draw at International Travel Services here. Andrew Hallikas of Fort Frances won a Hawaiian cruise valued at $6,000. July’s prize will be a trip to Nassau, Bahamas worth […]
Zoey Duncan Ray Dolph checked out a fully-restored 1989 Dodge Dakota convertible at West End Motors’ 65th anniversary sale at the Memorial Sports Centre. About 80 vehicles are on the floor, with deals on both new and used cars and trucks. The “sale-a-bration” continues today until 8 p.m. and again […]
Heather Latter Jocelyn Matheson showed off her display of recycled jewellery which she had for sale yesterday in front of the Fort Frances Museum as part of the BIA’s “Market Thursdays.” Matheson, who makes her creations from broken or old jewellery, will be accepting donations of unwanted jewellery there each […]
Heather Latter Evan Wright, three, accepted his certificate from resource teacher Laurel Basaraba during the Fort Frances Nursery School’s graduation ceremony yesterday at the Legion Park. The wind-up picnic featured activities, a penny table, and delicious food. The pre-school program, for children aged two-five, will start up again in September, […]
Zoey Duncan Kerry Robertson, left, Lisa Hammond, and Stephanie Weir received honks of support during a protest late this morning as temporary workers of Canada Post were locked out of their jobs here. Local grievance officer Kim Kelly said these temporary workers are supposed to work on an on-call basis, […]
Heather Latter Nicole Thomson and Ryan Shouldice, along with the rest of the Borderland Community Orchestra, presented a musical evening last night at St. Michael’s School, with selections such as Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (2nd and 4th Movements), Mozart’s overature from “The Marriage of Figaro,” and a Salute to the Big […]
Staff Allen Raoul, field geologist for Bending Lake Iron Group Ltd., spoke at a well-attended mining information event, hosted by the local Chamber of Commerce and the Town of Fort Frances economic development office, at La Place Rendez-Vous yesterday. Bending Lake and Rainy River Resources gave presentations to update the […]
Peggy Revell With prayers and thanks, participants in the annual “Mother Earth Water Walk” offered tobacco last Wednesday afternoon to the waters at the Ranier rapids, where Rainy Lake flows into the Rainy River. The walk—which has seen a copper pail filled with water from the Hudson Bay travelling by […]
Heather Latter Scott Jolicoeur tried out the pilot seat of Patrick Langevin’s Grumman Tiger four-seater plane Saturday during the 12th-annual “Fly-in, Drive-in BBQ” at the Fort Frances Airport. The event—designed to showcase the local airport by having private pilots fly in here for the day—featured a number of planes as […]
Jack Elliott This robin, which is largely white, was first sighted last year in Rainy River by Frank Books, who saw this bird, along with another partially-white robin, near his home. The birds then disappeared but regularly were spotted along the river a few blocks south. This bird apparently has […]
Lucas Punkari Christopher Leek lost control in turn #3 on Saturday evening while battling for the lead with Chuck Lambert during the WISSOTA Midwest Modified feature at the Emo Speedway. Leek fell out of the race a couple of laps later as a result of damage suffered in this incident […]
