Final push on to track down reunion registrants

The FFHS Millennium Reunion organizing committee is making a final attempt to contact area residents who attended the 1994 high school reunion but have not yet registered for the one coming up in July.
The initial notice of the upcoming reunion was made early in 1998. At that time, a newsletter was sent out informing the ’94 reunion participants that plans were in the works to organize one celebrating Fort High’s move into the new millennium.
Over the past several weeks, student volunteers have been phoning area residents to let them know the remaining available openings for the July 7-9 reunion are filling rapidly. This effort will continue over the next few weeks.
For people who have left the area or changed their telephone numbers since 1994, the reunion committee will be relying totally upon word-of-mouth to let them know this year’s reunion is less than 90 days away.
Former students and staff of the school should not wait to be contacted directly again about the reunion. Attempts to contact every person in the area who attended the 1994 reunion have not always been successful.
Any former FFHS students and staff who attended the 1994 reunion, and are now living outside of the district, will not be receiving additional direct notices about this July’s reunion.
The reunion committee recognizes this is a problem, and it is relying on family and friends of those participants to pass on the word that available reunion openings are being filled now.
The FFHS Millennium Reunion is open to any former student or staff member of Fort Frances High School. The response has been very positive, and multiple registrations are continuing to arrive every day.
Registration forms are still being mailed out to anyone who requests them. As they are being sent out, encouragement is being included to mail the forms back immediately in order to avoid disappointment.
The registration cut-off for the reunion is 2,000 people.
The percentage of new registrants planning to attend the Millennium Reunion, and who did not attend the one in 1994, is still about 50 percent. The organizing committee is expecting almost 1,000 “new faces” to take part in all the activities for this major event.
With the number of distributed registration forms now approaching 2,500, it is very much a case of first-come, first-served. The registration forms will be accepted up until the 2,000 mark is received.
Registration forms are available at Fort Frances General Supply and through FFHS Millennium Reunion, 1208 Elizabeth St. E., Fort Frances, Ont., P9A 3R9.