Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Where has the time gone? When they say it flies by. . . they are not kidding! It seems just like yesterday when I received my letter of acceptance in the mail from the University of Winnipeg. Fast forward four years’ time and I am extremely excited to announce that […]
Megan Walchuk The Fort Frances Community Garden has been bustling with activity with the new growing season. The facility rents plots to local residents, allowing them space to grow their own food and flowers. Jenna Plante shows Daisy McFarlane how to plant flowers.
Meghan Spooner This pair get their life jackets on first thing in the morning, asking to go for a canoe ride. This morning was the little guys’ second birthday, and they were on the water by 6 a.m. What has your family been doing to pass the time during COVID-19? […]
The Fort Frances Lakers franchise has learned the Dudley-Hewitt Cup won’t remain in Fort Frances next year. Under the direction of Hockey Canada, the 2020 Dudley-Hewitt Cup Central Canadian Jr. A Championship was cancelled due to the Coronavirus COVID 19 Pandemic. The Fort Frances Lakers were scheduled to host the […]
Five local football players will be heading up to the big leagues this fall. Fort Frances Muskie Football players Aaron Scheibler, Brady Meeks, Carson Noga, Colton Allen and Dale Berg each signed with the Winnipeg Rifles during the Canadian Junior Football League (CJFL) Signing Day held on Monday, June 1. […]
The family of Sybil Verna Sletmoen sadly announces her peaceful passing on May 29, 2020 at Rainycrest Home for the Aged, at the age of 85. Sybil was born on December 8, 1934 in Rainy River, ON to John and Ivy Johnson. With the exception of a brief period during […]
Peter Mendonca, age 75, died February 5, 2020. Husband of Winnie; son of late Francis Xavier, Catherine Mendonca; children, Sunil, Ancilla, Marita, Ivan; grandchildren, Leon, Dylan, Nathan. He loved to write, starting with poems, later on his son’s website: www.SustainablePlanet.ca Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers.
With heavy hearts the family of Richard Morrison, 59, Giigwegiigaaboo, Wazhask doodem of Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation announces that he has started his journey in the spirit world on Tuesday, May 26, 2020. He was born in Fort Frances on June 24, 1960 to Bill and Helen Morrison. Although Richard had […]
The report by Canadian army personnel of what they found after deployment to several long-term care homes in Ontario is shocking. I encourage everyone to read it, even if you do not know anyone in a long-term care home. This is a societal issue – the conditions described in the […]
Curran Strachan Dear Editor, This is written for Mayor Harold McQuaker, Councillor Harrold Boven, and Councillor Warren Toles of The Town Council of Emo. Hello. I must say I am saddened to have to write this, but I also am happy to use this as an education opportunity. At the […]
William (Bill) Morrison Sr. Dear editor, I started this out as a jeer. However maybe it should be a Letter to the editor! Jeers for the town council for the about face on the cemetery’s perpetual flowers, due to the hardship of “greenhouse(s)” losing income, yet the town will lose […]
Trevor Bonot Dear editor, 27! What had you accomplished by then? Perhaps you had finished your education, started your dream job, gotten married or maybe even started having a family. For me, I was stuck, Stuck knowing I was being someone I was not. Sure, I had a career and […]
