A troupe of eight French Immersion drama students at Fort Frances High School will debut their play tomorrow (June 8) at the Townshend Theatre, with free performances set for 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
“La bataille qui est l'école secondaire," or "The struggle that is high school,” outlines a typical day for a student at Fort High.
A recent trend has seen discarded needles popping up all over town and in surrounding municipalities.
Community spaces and high-traffic areas are strewn with the pointy objects thrown away by drug users.
The Watten fire department here has been struggling with funding recently and will hold a flea market at the fire hall/community centre there next Saturday (June 10) to help fundraise.
Besides the department's operating costs, Watten also needs money for a new fire rescue truck.
The Couchiching band office has decided to move forward with implementing a drug-testing policy for its staff, including the chief and council—an idea it has tossed around for the last few months.
Chief Brian Perrault and four councillors were tested first earlier this month, followed by the other two councillors 10 days later.
All the tests came back negative.
A meeting to determine interest for a local Parkinson's support group didn't garner much attention Monday at the Sister Kennedy Centre.
Marielle Henderson, the community development coordinator with Parkinson Canada, drove from Thunder Bay to help Tom Big George, whose mother suffers from Parkinson's, organize monthly meetings that would start in the fall.
As a boy growing up on Rainy Lake, Chris Stinson always had been fascinated by the water and what lay beneath it.
He was an avid outdoor adventurer and animal-lover, and enjoyed catching small frogs and bird-watching.
At that age, he never would have guessed he'd become best friends with an 85-foot-long, 80,000-kg beast.
The “Spring into your career” hiring fair, held last Tuesday at the Copper River Inn here, is being deemed a success.
“Overall, I was happy with how everything turned out,” said Sarah Marusyk, marketing co-ordinator at NCDS, which hosted the 3-7 p.m. event in partnership with the Rainy River Future Development Corp. (RRFDC) and the Northwest Training and Adjustment Board.
Local hunters are disappointed after the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry decided to decrease the number of moose tags it provides in the province for 2017.
The availability of moose tags has been reduced gradually over the past few years due to declining moose populations.
One of the two Iraqi families the community is sponsoring will be heading to Fort Frances soon.
The whole process has been one big waiting game—and Kathy Mueller finally is relieved to hear some information.
