Fort Frances Time Online Edition - June 10, 2016

Danika Tom, a graduate of the “Police Foundations” program, beamed with delight after receiving her diploma while flanked by Mark Gaudet, post-secondary co-ordinator with the Seven Generations Education Institute (left), and Shawn Chorney of Canadore College during the SGEI’s 25th-annual graduation ceremony yesterday afternoon at the Memorial Sports Centre.

The Backus Community Center in International Falls has been hosting the annual Summer Arts @ Backus this week (June 6-11).

Kids from kindergarten to high school turn out each year to explore the arts at Backus.

Class topics include painting, botanicals, gardening, cake decorating, lasers, and recycling art.

The Rainy River Future Development Corp. is pleased to announce that “Project Petunia” has reached its goal of selling flower baskets that will line a section of King’s Highway this month.

We would like to thank all those who donated to this community beautification project.

These flowers will help make Fort Frances a more beautiful and vibrant place to live and work.

Curves owner Angel Andrushuk, left, cut into one of two watermelon cakes surrounded by staff and members Wednesday afternoon to celebrate the one-year anniversary of her business. Today marks the end of the weekly celebration, which featured discounts on all in-stock apparel and merchandise, daily draws, free sign-up, and a draw for a three-month membership.

Four new fires were confirmed in the Northwest Region by late yesterday.

Fort Frances Fire #7, located near Upper Lawrence Lake, was listed as “not under control” at 0.3 hectares in size.

Two fires in Dryden District, both located near Bivo Lake, each were reported as “being held” at 2.6 ha and 0.4 ha, respectively.

Third-grader Piper Felix helped Maelle Easton, four, with an activity during the Early Years “Play Date” at J.W. Walker School yesterday morning. The sessions, held at many schools throughout the district over the past few weeks, were aimed at youngsters who will be starting school this fall as a way to prepare them for September.

A brainstorming session on the long-term use and potential for Kiwanis Sunny Cove Camp will be held there this Wednesday (June 15) at 6:30 p.m.

The town’s Kiwanis Sunny Cove Advisory Committee is inviting the public “to come [and] give their input on what they would like to see the camp develop into,” said committee member Nicke Paddock.

Ian Jodoin celebrated his earlier accomplishment by doing what he does best.

The newly-crowned Muskie male athlete of the year netted his first goal of the season as the La Place Rendez-Vous U18 Voyageurs blanked International Travel Services 3-0 in Borderland Soccer League men’s division action last night.

Mellodey Sinclair, five, had fun making big bubbles yesterday during the family STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) night and barbecue at Robert Moore School.

Members of OSSTF District 5B saw support from other unions, such as CUPE and ETFO, as well as retired teachers and their provincial executive, during the rally it held Tuesday night outside the Rainy River District School Board office.

LONDON—Britain celebrated Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday and her service to the country today with solemn pomp, pageantry, and prayer at St. Paul’s Cathedral ahead of a weekend of festivities.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, set the tone by reminding Britain of the queen’s long life and dedicated service.

VANCOUVER—B.C. Premier Christy Clark says she was 13 years old when an unknown man pulled her off the sidewalk into nearby bushes, but she broke free and ran.

“It was a sunny day and I was walking to work at my first job,” Clark wrote yesterday in a submitted article to the Vancouver Sun.

TORONTO — Shopping for steaks to grill and confused by the difference between grass-fed and grain-fed beef? And why is one more expensive?

A Toronto-based butcher who stocks 100 per cent grass-fed beef argues cows that graze on grass are healthier and their meat contains less fat than their counterparts eating grain or corn.

In a country where hockey is king, Gordie Howe ruled for decades.

A Canadian icon, Howe grew up in the Great Depression playing hockey on prairie ponds—on hand-me-down or jerry-rigged skates.

He went on to become “Mr. Hockey”—a tough and durable customer who could fight as well as he could score.

Howe, who died today at the age of 88, could do it all.

SHELTON, Wash. — The parachutes slowly float down from Chinook helicopters, first carrying boxes of supplies and then the paratroopers who set up a field operations centre as part of a readiness drill for a megaquake and tsunami.

LONDON — Bells rang in celebration from St. Paul’s Cathedral in London Friday to mark the start of the official celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday.

The queen’s milestone birthday is being marked with a three-day series of festivities that will include solemn religious events and street parties in many towns and cities.

The scene was wrenching: A sobbing 6-year-old girl, clutching a stuffed bear as her foster father carries her away from the only home she has known for most of her life.

But Lexi’s story didn’t end in March when she was removed from a Santa Clarita home near Los Angeles. Her story isn’t one of simple emotions but rather complex issues of ethnicity, government and history.

LOS ANGELES — For over two decades, all Maria Mancia had of her son was a single photo, a slightly blurry image of a boy, 18 months old, staring unsmiling into the camera.

On Thursday, he was wiping away her tears at a reunion neither of them ever expected.

When I was growing up, my father would take us to get fresh hot doughnuts from Krispy Kreme every Sunday. The cake doughnuts, covered in peanuts or dipped in sprinkles, were always my favourite. And to this day, I crave cake doughnuts.