Damage at Pither's Point

Damage to Pither's Point Park near the baseball diamond will cost the town of Fort Frances as much as $5000 to repair.

The repairs to the public green space cost everyone in the community and could easily have been avoided by having more respect.

Operations and Facilities Manager Doug Brown says not much can be done until the spring to repair the eyesore.

“In the spring we’ll have to go in there and landscape it basically. Put it back to the proper levels, take all the ruts out, fill the holes and plant sore grass. It’s an eyesore for everyone that goes up to the Point.”

The park is in the process of filing an official report with the OPP and is asking for any information related to the incident.

Weather records continue to fall across Northwestern Ontario

According to Bill Laidlaw of signal weather services, more temperature records in the Rainy River district tumbled yesterday.

Fort Frances hit 14.2C, shattering the old record of 12 set 1999.

Atikokan hit 15.6C. The old record, set in 1969 was 13.3. Dryden, Kenora, and Red Lake also enjoyed strikingly warm weather. Dryden beating a record set in 1931.

And Sioux Lookout almost made it to the list - they got to 13.7, the old record was 13.9 set 1969.

Signal Weather services' Bill Laidlaw says that we should see another round of records broken today, but the weather will start to change drastically by tomorrow.

"There's a weak cold front coming out og Maintoba that's going to slide across us tomorrow. With that, temperatures start to drop and we'll be down to zero by suppertime."