Organizers of the “Canoe for Cancer” social next Wednesday at the Fort Frances Curling Club plan to donate the proceeds towards the purchase of furniture for a new chemotherapy room at La Verendrye hospital.
The room, to be built when the emergency ward there is renovated, will be used strictly for cancer patients who need a place to rest during their treatments.
There are missing buoys on Rainy Lake and that poses a safety concern, the coast guard has warned.
“Our marine patrol has been out and they have made contact with the coast guard and notified them of the missing buoys,” Fort Frances OPP S/Sgt. Hugh Dennis said yesterday.
Six children from Belarus should be in for an exciting six-week vacation next month when then are reunited with the host families that took them in last summer.
With the youngsters slated to return July 6, the four host families—Cathy Zin and Terry Wilcott, Albert and Linda Beller, David and Heidi Ivall, and Tony and Ivan Gill—are busy preparing for their guests.
To say Liberals in the new Kenora-Rainy River riding were expecting a closer race between NDP leader Howard Hampton and Liberal incumbent Frank Miclash would be an understatement.
Miclash himself admitted he was feeling “comfortable” going into the election—especially since the latest poll done by Oracle/MCTV showed him with a four percent lead over Hampton.
A subdued NDP leader Howard Hampton called his victory “bittersweet” after he handily won the new amalgamated Kenora-Rainy River riding last Thursday but watched as his party only won nine seats across the province.
The Tories under Mike Harris won a second majority government with 59 seats while the Liberals captured 35 to form the official Opposition.
An environmental assessment report, commissioned by CN and obtained by the Times, stated two houses on Central Avenue here are well above soil contamination levels set by the Ministry of the Environment.
Some skills can only be learned on the job and that’s just the road James Easton is taking as the first apprenticeship placement in the district with NCDS Career Works here.
For more than a month now, Easton has been working with D&A Construction, helping build everything from decks to sun rooms. And he’s loving it.
Former Fort Frances native Tom Beechinor paid a nostalgic visit to the Portage Avenue entrance at Fort Frances High School earlier this week to reflect on the “Muskie” mural he painted on the wall there more than 30 years ago.
The mural will be one of several archives left behind when the building closes as a school next month.
Students and parents packed into the J.A. Mathieu Auditorium on Monday night to watch almost 200 students receive awards for excelling in the academic, executive, athletic, and musical fields.
Despite the high heat in the jam-packed gym, no one seemed to mind as teachers and staff recalled stories of the past school year before thanking the students that make their jobs worthwhile.
“Every day I’m going home.”
That’s the outlook of 41-year-old Dana Jeffrey who, since mid-April, has been en route to Prince Edward Island from Edmonton, Alta. by canoe with fellow paddler Doug Finch.
