Local News from Across the Rainy River District
After winning last spring’s Emo Walleye Classic, with a two-day total of 23.19 Lbs. long-time partners Doug McBride and Steve Ballan are hoping they can have a repeat performance this weekend in the Rainy River Walleye Tournament. Ballan says this is the pair’s 30th year fishing in tournaments together and […]
The Fort Frances Museum and Cultural Centre was adorned with poppies and Forget-Me-Not flowers on Friday as an exhibit opened honouring the fallen military members of the Rainy River District across four major military conflicts. The poppy is the traditional flower for remembering fallen soldiers but the Forget-Me-Not has been […]
After four years of research Marjorie Stintzi’s dream has come to fruition in the form of an exhibit which fills the downstairs gallery at the Fort Frances Museum and Cultural Centre. The exhibit –entitled Forget Me Not: Remembering our Fallen in the Rainy River District– features the names of 301 […]
After review, it was decided that the 10-year-old plaque at the Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung Historical Centre (Manitou Mounds), 21 km west of Rainy River First Nations (RRFN) needs a change in language as many things have changed over the years since the plaque was installed. Jessie Richard, grant manager and archivist at […]
The Fort Frances Curling Club has changed its public facing name to be known as the Curl Fort Frances Community Centre (CFCC). Similarly the Port Arthur Curling Club in Thunder Bay was rechristened as the Port Arthur Curling Centre. The Sudbury Curling Club changed its name to Curl Sudbury in […]
From left Sandra Weir, Sandra Tibbs, Travis Rob and Becky Andrusco, all members of the Make A Big Splash Spray Park Committee and Fort Frances Royal Canadian Legion president Jane Hayes get splashed by the big bucket at the new splash pad in Legion Park last Thursday. The spray park […]
The bright lights of the midway shine on fairgoers waiting to ride the Ferris wheel on Thursday, August 17, 2023 at the Emo fairgrounds. Thousands of peo- ple from across the district visited Emo at some point between last Thursday and Saturday to ride the rides, taste the food, take […]
Last Wednesday, a group of health care sector workers and other community members were invited to the former Fort Frances mill site for a presentation by BMI Group on the immediate next steps for the site. Last June, the Times reported that BMI was poised to redevelop the former mill […]
The Fort Frances Salvation Army has been working hard this summer, as usual, to provide needs for the community through a number of different programs. Ryan Daw is a services co-ordinator with the Salvation Army in Fort Frances and has been working with different community groups this year. “We had […]
Fort Frances mayor Andrew Hallikas presented Clinton Gray with his badge in a ceremony at the Fort Frances Civic Centre on Thursday, August 10. Gray has spent most of his life here in Fort Frances save for a short stint in British Columbia. Despite having had jobs in other sectors, […]
Anthony Kadikoff watches as crews take down some of the last remaining parts of the former Fort Frances Mill on August 14, 2023. Decommission of the mill has been ongoing since 2020, with several large scale implo- sions and road-closing projects having occurred in that time. The BMI group says […]
The Fort Frances Salvation Army has been working hard this summer, as usual, to provide needs for the community through a number of different programs. Ryan Daw is a services co-ordinator with the Salvation Army in Fort Frances and has been working with different community groups this year. “We had […]
