Author Archives: Randy Thoms
Costly Puppies
A costly purchase of two puppies. The Canada Border Services Agency reports someone recently tried to cross into Canada at the Fort Frances border with two puppies they'd purchased, showing a receipt ...
Jul 09, 2019 Photo courtesy Border Service Nor/Twitter
Emergency Room Reopens
The emergency department at Riverside Health Care's Rainy River Health Centre is back open. It had been shut down for five months due to a break of a sprinkler line which caused significant water dama...
Jul 09, 2019 Photo courtesy Google Maps
Best Wishes Offered To Departing Library Head
It's the final few days for Fort Frances Library Chief Executive Officer Caroline Goulding. She leaves at the end of the week for a new position with Patricia Area Community Endeavors in Dryden. Monda...
Jul 09, 2019
Local Sports Report For Tuesday, July 9
In the Rainy River District Women's Fastball League, Couchiching Raider got by the Fort Frances Herricanes 10-8. Other winners from last night were Dawson and Northwest Bay. Two other games were postp...
Jul 09, 2019
Busy Construction Month In May
Some big projects are underway in Fort Frances. The most significant start in May was the OPP's new detachment, estimated to cost close to $13-million. It was one of 30 building permits issued by the ...
Jul 09, 2019
Hospital Records Go Digital
Hospitals in northwestern Ontario are moving a to digital world. Ontario MD has worked with twelve hospitals in northwestern Ontario, including Riverside Health Care Facilities and Atikokan General Ho...
Jul 09, 2019 Photo courtesy freeimages.com/Kurhan
Fort Frances To Become Part of Blessing Box Program
A Thunder Bay-based program that fills wooden boxes with non-perishable food for the less fortunate, placed at various homes in that city, is expanding. The group which started the Blessing Box progra...
Jul 09, 2019 One of three Blessing Boxes to be set up in Fort Frances in the near future (supplied photo)
Workplace Wellness Growing In Importance
It's time to talk about mental health in the workplace. Recent figures show that 70 per cent of Canadians report that work affects their mental health, and 78 per cent say they often miss work because...
Jul 09, 2019 Linda Lewis-Daly is a workplace wellness program consultant at Goodlife Fitness. (Submitted)
Local Sports Report For Monday, July 8
At Emo Speedway Saturday, Brody Strachan of Emo won his first modified feature of the season. Cody Ossachuk of Fort Frances capturing his first mid-west mod feature of the year. Jake Froemke of Intern...
Jul 09, 2019
New Wilderness Stewards For Path of the Paddle
A group responsible for promoting an all-water route through northwestern Ontario will have a presence on it this summer. The Path of the Paddle Association has hired two Wilderness Trail Stewards to ...
Jul 06, 2019
