It's a class project that could pay off for local businesses—and not cost them a dime.
Under the guidance of Fort High teacher Chris Denby, the grade 11 computer sciences class is creating a directory on the Internet for Fort Frances area businesses.
“We're learning basically how to set it up on the Internet,” noted student Laura McTaggart.
Riding on cloud nine is an emotion Connie Cuthbertson can probably relate to these days.
For the first time in the local artist's career, one of her works is moving from the canvas to the printed page.
“It's so cool," beamed Cuthbertson late last week. "This is the first time I've been published in a book.”
It was a shining moment for me—however fleeting it may have been.
My team was awesome Sunday afternoon as we thundered (well, maybe we didn’t reach the point of thundering but we were impressive nonetheless) through the bean bag toss on horseback at Trail’s End Riding Stable.
It’s one part craftwork and several parts artwork—and it’s become one of the biggest parts of Emily Hyatt’s life.
Hyatt has been working with stained glass for the past 17 years, and it’s earned her and her studio, “A Touch of Glass,” a bit of renown around the district.
Chili chefs are busy cooking up their formula for success in preparation for the second-annual “Great Chili Cookoff” slated to get underway Friday at 11 a.m. under the tent in the parking lot of the Fort Frances Times.
Look out chili chefs—the taste testers are out to choose the best chili and they have some flavour standards.
“Some like it hot, some do not" pretty much sums up the panel of judges set to give their taste buds the challenge at the "Great Chili Cookoff” slated Friday in the Times parking lot.
Food banks at the United Native Friendship Centre here and the local Salvation Army definitely will be thankful for the proceeds from the “Great Chili Cookoff” being held Friday—their shelves are in dire need of supplies.
“Our stock is fairly low, [in fact] we are low on all staples,” said Marjorie Atkinson, a food bank volunteer with the Salvation Army.
With provincial funding having run out for the Community Development Corp. for the West Rainy River District, Geoff Gillon said his office is looking to pick up the slack.
But just how they’re going to do it remains to be seen.
The invisible trading wall is crumbling as 150 participants opened up possibilities of doing business with their counterparts on the other side of the Canada-U.S. border.
Fort Frances council could be putting the brakes on the proposed Rainy River District Area Services Board by insisting on representation by population.
That’s the warning Rainy River Mayor Gord Armstrong, who chairs the working group putting together the proposal, relayed after hearing council here gave the go-ahead to the proposal—but only if certain changes were made.
