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There is bad news and good news this week. First the bad news. Most provincial governments bet that the pandemic was over and have now discovered that the Delta variant was stronger than anyone believed and had rebuilt itself to be more contagious. The number of new Covid cases is […]
The sun was setting in Glendale, Arizona. We’d been at a spring training game with friends. My buddy was wearing a shirt that read “Giants.” I wore one that read “White Sox.” These were the teams of our distant youth…and, while I’ve always avoided wearing team signage, my granddaughter had […]
I think most of us, if not all, have had days when we feel a little unsteady, emotionally speaking, and rage is brewing in our core. Perhaps we’ve had to call Bell Canada or Revenue Canada or maybe we’ve listened to just one too many commercial vehicles backing up and […]
Last week was a whirlwind! We were working hard to complete multiple tasks before the Minister’s visit on Thursday. I finally gave up on the fact that getting things all trimmed, mowed and beautiful wasn’t going to happen. In fact, it is the end of the year and the place […]
The annual Rainy River Walleye Tournament was held over the weekend and two of our Devlin teams placed second and third. Placing second was Doug McBride and Solly Santiago. This husband and wife team had a total weight of 20.44 lbs. Third place win went to Bill Godin and Leroy […]
Rainy River correspondent
The West Rainy River Lions Club draw at the Rainy River Walleye Tournament was held at the Big Tent on Saturday, September 18, 2021 just after 6:00 pm. WRRD Lions President Richard Trenchard drew the three winning tickets from the drum. Winner of the Princecraft Vectra 21 Pontoon Boat was […]
Special to the Times
When summer holidays ended we began to think of the return to school and of the harvest. Winter preparations were on my mother’s mind as we never quite knew what lay ahead. Her main concern was for the warmth and comfort of our family and the animals and she spent […]
It is with heavy hearts the family of Harry Jones announces his passing on Monday, September 13, 2021 at the La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances. Born, April 2, 1931, in Liverpool, England, to Flora and David Jones, Harry grew up in Liverpool and in leaving school as a […]
Waa Say Giizhig – Wauzhushk Doodem Rick Kabatay, 41, passed away on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He was born on May 7, 1980, in Fort Frances, Ont., to Stewart Henderson and Barbara Kabatay. They spent a few years in Seine River First Nation before moving to […]
Marie Demetruk, 95, of Fort Frances, Ontario, passed away on September 11, 2021, in Fort Frances. Cremation has taken place and she will be laid to rest with her parents and sister in Riverview Cemetery.
