Local News from Across the Rainy River District
At their annual awards banquet last Thursday the Fort Frances Lakers announced that they will be changing colours for next season as well as confirming that the staff who finished the season will remain with the team. In an effort to turn over a new leaf and move on from […]
Jackson Marchant (left) and Shae Sinclair sweep a rock at the Fort Frances Curling Club’s Junior Curling Camp last weekend as Ontario Curling Council Education Manager Andrea Ronnebeck watches on. Around 30 young curlers were out at the Club last weekend learning more about the ‘roaring’ game, both on and […]
Kenora-Rainy River MPP Greg Rickford says the 2023 budget introduced last week by his party will help his constituents. The budget entitled Building a Strong Ontario, was introduced last Thursday by Finance Minister Peter Bethenfalvey and the Progressive Conservative Government of Premier Doug Ford. It is the biggest budget ever […]
The Rock 3 On 3 hockey league was started in part by long-time Fort Frances hockey volunteer and local Sports Hall of Famer, Scott Clendenning who passed away in 2015. Eight years after his passing the league lives on in his memory. Now into the second week of the 2023 […]
After Dryden scored early in the second the Lakers were in tough to get a goal of their own. Brady Wicklund almost equalized at the 19-minute mark when the Lakers were awarded a penalty shot after a Dryden skater covered the puck in the crease. The Lakers wouldn’t have to […]
The Fort Frances Cyclones Swim Club have announced the opening of registration for a spring session. Club president Heather Johnson says the eight-week session running from Apr. 1-May 20 will allow new swimmers to get a feel for what it’s like to swim with the club. “It’s a developmental swimming […]
Fort Frances Lakers forward Clark Scaddan lines up a shot in last night’s SIJHL playoff game against the Dryden GM Ice Dogs. The Lakers lost 6-2 to fall to a 3-0 deficit in the series and will be playing to save their season tonight. The puck drops at 8:15 p.m. […]
Over 300 players in five age groups have joined this year’s edition of Scott Clendenning’s three on three hockey league. The fast- paced, three-week league is named in honour of the late hockey coach and volunteer who passed away in 2015. The league will run for two more weeks.
At the March 7 Rainy River District School Board (RRDSB) Trustees meeting members of the RRDSB Special Education Advisory Committee presented results from last year’s Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) testing, and strategies for improvement going forward EQAO testing was last fully administered in the 2018-2019 school year according […]
Juno award winning alt-rock duo Crown Lands brought their haunting guitar and indigenous flute sounds to the opening set of their show in Fort Frances last Saturday. The show was the second in the band’s tour of Northern Ontario as they head west on a cross-Canada tour. The nature of […]
A delegation from the Muskies Blue Line Club made a presentation to the Rainy River School District’s Board of Trustees, to express the importance of the Club to the high school hockey program. The Muskie Blue Line Club is a volunteer organization, which raises funds to support the Fort Frances […]
The Town of Rainy River is endeavoring to revive its economy for the post-pandemic world and attract more business. Gajith Jindasa is the Economic Development Officer for the Town of Rainy River. He says the town is working on a new economic development strategy. “We are trying to re-strategize our […]
