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Staff Writer memara@fortfrances.com Tonight will be the only meeting of the month for the Fort Frances council. The next meeting will take place on August 9. Tonight Mayor June Caul will announce the recipients of the Moffat Family Fund Grant. The Committee of the Whole will also be receiving a letter presenting information about Boundary Waters Forest Management Corporation (BWFMC). The letter is submitted by Geoff Gillion, Tannis Drysdale and Mike Willick. This letter was in response to a request by Caul to have a formal report on the Sustainable Forest License and the BWFMC. The mayor ...

Staff Writer memara@fortfrances.com At what point in life does one start thinking about their eternal resting location? Will it be six feet under ground or an urn in a columbarium niche? If you are an obituary reader, you will have noticed that as per most wishes, cremation has taken place, with a celebration of life set to take place at a later date. According to the Cremation Association of North America (CANA), out of the 306,468 deaths that occurred in Canada in 2020, 224,081 were cremated, accounting for 73.1 per cent of who agreed or had their family sign a cremation certificate. Th...

Staff Writer ntrivuncic@fortfrances.com The Memorial Veterans Trees along King’s Highway, planted in memory of those who served, have stood tall for many decades. However, concerns haver been brought to Council regarding the removal of some of the elm trees, due to construction. The trees were originally planted to commemorate those from the Rainy River District who served during World War II. The first four trees represent the four allied leaders of the time- Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Charles DeGaulle. Three of the trees were removed from the south side...

The town of Fort Frances is hoping for some federal funding for its airport. It’s making an application to a program set up to offset the impact of the pandemic on the aviation sector. Operations and Facilities Manager, Travis Rob, says it will cover 100 per cent of operating costs. “This is a program where we can apply for reimbursement of specific operating expenses for 12 months period, any 12-month period between March 2020 and March 31, 2022,” says Rob. The town calculates its expenses to be at about $403-thousand. Rob says the fund was geared toward privately funded airports but i...

1 April 2021 Staff In an effort to clean up the community and make use of the proliferation of deer droppings an enterprising entrepreneur from Manitoba has come up with a plan to clean up Fort Frances while generating extra power. The concept, dubbed Pelletonne, revolves around the idea of incinerating deer waste in a retrofitted outdoor wood burning furnace. It’s designed to consume at least one tonne of deer pellets per week with year round operation. The Company responsible is ODT (Oh Deer Trucking) which is owned and operated by 28 year old Flatu L...