The Legion Ladies Auxiliary will hold its next monthly supper–featuring lasagna, Caesar salad, and all the fixings–on Friday, Feb. 23 at 5:30 p.m. upstairs at the Legion (doors open at 4:30). Admission is $16/person and a 50/50 draw also will be held. Take-outs available by calling 274-3772. The Fort Frances […]
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Submitted Moms and their babies were at the Fort Frances Public Library yesterday morning for the start of the winter session of “Baby Time.” The program runs every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. Register online at ffpltc.ca/node/891 but drop-ins also welcome. Pictured here are Raylene and Beckham, Chayla and Kingston, Lindsay […]
By Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press A blood test five years after breast cancer treatment helped identify some women who were more likely to relapse, long before a lump or other signs appeared, a preliminary study found. It was the largest experiment so far to use these tests, called liquid […]
Duane Hicks John McTaggart, chair of the local Police Services Board (PSB), presented OPP detachment commander Insp. Steve Shouldice with a parting gift–a Chery Pruys print of the Noden Causeway–during Friday’s PSB meeting at the Civic Centre.
Duane Hicks The local Police Services Board bid farewell to Insp. Steve Shouldice on Friday. After 19 years with the Rainy River District OPP, including the last six as detachment commander here, Insp. Shouldice accepted a position as manager of Business and Finance at the OPP East Region Headquarters in […]
Duane Hicks Breast cancer survivor Michelle Blackburn was able to embrace and transform her scars into something beautiful and empowering–and now she’s helping other women do the same. Along with body artist Chantal Hughes and photographer Izabela Pioro, the Thunder Bay trio have helped close to 50 women become part […]
By Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Doctors were just guessing a decade ago when they gave Alison Cairnes’ husband a new drug they hoped would shrink his lung tumors. Now she takes it too, but the choice was no guesswork. Sophisticated gene tests suggested it would fight […]
Staff Their overall score was better but the Muskie golf team couldn’t overcome a heavenly performance by a single Saint. The black-and-gold improved by eight strokes as a group Tuesday in Kenora from their NorWOSSA season-opening victory last week in Sioux Lookout. But an impressive round of 74 by Noden […]
Duane Hicks Work on the Rainy Lake Square will take a few more weeks than initially scheduled. The completion date was to be Sept. 1 but there have been delays along the way, so that date has been pushed back to Sept. 22, Operations and Facilities manager Travis Rob told […]
Kiera Kowalski Helicopters were back this morning ferrying workers to the tops of the hydro towers along the Noden Causeway to conduct maintenance work. One of them can be seen on the right side of the top arm of the background tower–a precarious perch hundreds of feet above Rainy Lake. […]
By Mari Yamaguchi The Associated Press TOKYO — Japan’s ruling party urged the government Thursday to consider arming the country with more advanced and offensive capability, such as striking enemy targets with cruise missiles, further loosening the self-defence-only military posture Japan has had since the end of World War II. […]
Nicholas Donaldson After 30 years of ownership, Greg and Shelly Gustafson have passed The Great Bear onto new owners. Jordan and Katie Stus officially took over the business on March 1 and are excited about the opportunity. Katie Stus (nee Cuthbertson) grew up in the area and went to Thunder […]
