Fort Frances Times Online Edition - September 3, 2019

Members of the Rainy District Ontario Provincial Police were made aware last week of a phone scam which has affected multiple persons in the area.

The scammers have phoned unsuspecting persons and claimed that they have won a sweepstakes or prize of some sort usually many millions of dollars, vehicles, or a combination of both.

Aiden Loerzel, left, and Carter Payne debated how much cheese to put onto their foccacia dough during Confederation College's Culinary camp at the Fort Frances High School on Thursday. The camp offered participants the chance to learn about different culinary practices and try their hands at a number of different recipes in the kitchens at the high school.

Sisters Aella, left, and Finley Grynol, got some pointers from mom, Shannon, and dad, Aaron, while searching in the money pit that was run as a part of the Labour Day BBQ put on by a few of the local unions at the Point Park yesterday.

Rick Socholotuk took up his bass guitar to perform with “Rewind” at the Rainy Lake Square on Thursday evening. The band drew a huge crowd to the square to enjoy a wide variety of crowd-pleasing tunes from the '50s, '60s and '70s. The show was a tribute to the late Marty Tibbs.

Bransen Campbell, left, registered for Grade 9 at Fort Frances High School with help from his brother, Calin, on Thursday. Meanwhile, Scott Kivimaki, left, got some guidance from sister, Anne, and mom, Sarah, as he opened his new locker for the first time. New students had the opportunity to take a walk around the school and familiarize themselves with the layout of the building.

TORONTO—Ontario college and university students are heading back to school with lower tuition fees, but accompanying cuts to government assistance mean many will have both less help paying for school and more debt.

OTTAWA—Wooing workers in Canada's union heartland was the focus for federal party leaders this Labour Day, with Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh all in Hamilton.

HOUSTON—Police say a man pulled a gun at a Popeyes restaurant in Houston after being told they were out of chicken sandwiches.

Houston police Lt. Larry Crowson says officers were called to the restaurant last night after a group of people tried to order a chicken sandwich.

OTTAWA—The economy blew past projections by expanding at an annualized pace of 3.7 percent in the second quarter, giving Canada its strongest three-month stretch of growth in two years.

Statistics Canada's latest reading for real gross domestic product shows an unexpectedly solid turnaround for an economy that was coming off its weakest back-to-back quarters of growth since 2015.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University wants the public to know that it has no connection to a company blamed for helping drive the nation’s opioid crisis.

The university has spent years repeating that it has no affiliation to Purdue Pharma, the Stamford, Connecticut-based pharmaceutical company that’s the maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin.

NEW DELHI — The landing module of India’s unmanned moon mission separated from the orbiter on Monday ahead of its planned touchdown on the moon’s south polar region this weekend, the space agency said.

All the systems of the orbiter and the lander are “healthy,” the Indian Space Research Organization said in a statement.

BERLIN — The European Space Agency says it has performed an evasive manoeuvr with one of its satellites after rival SpaceX said it wouldn’t move its own spacecraft out of the way, risking a potentially catastrophic collision.

ESA said Tuesday that it “reached out early to SpaceX and was informed that no manoeuvr was planned for the Starlink satellite before the close approach.”

NASHVILLE—A Catholic school in Tennessee has removed the Harry Potter books from its library after the school's priest decided they could cause a reader to conjure evil spirits.

In an email obtained by The Tennessean , the Rev. Dan Reehil of Nashville's St. Edward Catholic School said he consulted exorcists in the U.S. and Rome who recommended removing the books.

NASHVILLE — A Catholic school in Tennessee has removed the Harry Potter books from its library after the school’s priest decided they could cause a reader to conjure evil spirits.

In an email obtained by The Tennessean , the Rev. Dan Reehil of Nashville’s St. Edward Catholic School said he consulted exorcists in the U.S. and Rome who recommended removing the books.

BERLIN — German authorities say two World War II-era bombs found in two major cities have been successfully defused and disposed of.

The dpa news agency reported Tuesday that 15,200 people were evacuated overnight in the northern city of Hannover as a precaution before experts defused the bomb in the morning.

LONDON — Parliament was reconvening Tuesday for a pivotal day in British politics as lawmakers challenged Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s insistence that the U.K. will leave the European Union on Oct. 31 even without a deal.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Former Navy SEAL James Hatch says heading to class as a freshman at Yale University is just about as nerve-wracking as preparing for the uncertainty of combat.

At 52 years old, Hatch does not fit the profile of the traditional Yale freshman.

Tonight will have a shower in spots this evening but otherwise see clear skies with a low of six C (43 F).

Tomorrow will be sunny with clouds, with a high of 19 (66) and low of nine (48).

Thursday will have intervals of clouds and sun with a high of 19 (66) and low of 11 (52).