Staff Writer
memara@fortfrances.com
For many people, dreams just stay dreams, but Melissa Bond, born and raised in Fort Frances, has found the secret ingredients to making them a reality; hard work and perseverance.
Bond graduated from Fort Frances High School and went on to study civil engineering at the University of Waterloo. She graduated from university in 2001 and took on a job with ExxonMobil in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Bond is now the lead country manager for ExxonMobil Angola. Bond assumed her role in April and is expecting to live in Angola for a couple of years.
ExxonMobil is a global company that has operations all around the world. Given Bond works in the upstream part of the business, she has had experiences living abroad.
More than half will be spent at Fort Frances High School.
Eight hundred thousand dollars will be spent on ventilation upgrades, with another $300 thousand on window replacements.
Ventilation upgrades are also planned for Crossroads, McCrosson-Tovell, Nestor Falls and Sturgeon Creek Schools.
New bottle filling stations are planned for Sturgeon Creek, Mine Centre, McCrosson-Tovell and Fort Frances High Schools and the Education Centre.
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Fort Frances, ON, Canada / 93.1 The Border
Apr 21, 2021 9:07 PM
They have been rivals for decades. Now there is talk on both sides of the border about bringing together the high school hockey programs at Fort Frances High School and Falls High School in International Falls.
A group behind the idea of a cooperative program includes coaches and alumni.
They presented their idea this week to the Independent School District 361 Board.
Marty Goulet of the Falls says declining talent pools for the Broncos and the lack of a competitive league for the Muskies make a cooperative program almost inevitable.
“Based on the numbers on our side and on (the Muskies) side, the competitive landscape and the declining numbers with the teams they play, this needs to happen one day,” says Goulet.
14 April 2021 Jocelyn Galloway
For the upcoming high school graduates, community volunteer hours continue to be a difficult hurdle to overcome, as the pandemic continues.
In acknowledgment, the Ontario Ministry of Education has revised the 40-hour community involvement graduation requirement, so students will not be held back by the challenges related to COVID-19.
Student graduates of the 2020-21 school year only require 20 hours of community involvement activities to get their Ontario secondary school diploma.
Also, students aged 14 years and older can count up to a maximum of 10 hours from paid employment towards their earned hours, with pre-approval. If students count paid hours, they will be required to complete a reflection exercise to indicate how their work contributed to society.
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