Duane Hicks Some downtown restaurants may start providing outdoor seating during the summer months. The idea is to develop street cafes in conjunction with the new Rainy Lake Market Square. Existing Scott Street restaurants would have seating on the sidewalk outside their businesses so patrons could enjoy food and beverages […]
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Duane Hicks There’s no government funding available for new senior-friendly housing to be built in Fort Frances. If people want it, they’ll have to invest in it themselves. That’s the message from a local group of individuals who are gauging residents’ desire for—and willingness to pay for—apartments or condos to […]
Heather Latter For 66 years, the Devlin post office has been manned by a member of Trudy Badiuk’s family. But on Friday, after 32 years, Badiuk is retiring from her position as postmistress and the family tradition will come to an end. “I said it wouldn’t bother me to quit […]
Joey Payeur Discussing the players a team still has while shrugging off the ones no longer around is familiar coachspeak. Jordan Sinclair preferred to walk up to the elephant in the room and punch it right in the tusk. The new head coach of the Muskie boys’ hockey team didn’t […]
Heather Latter Nicholas Cain, left, along with his cousins, Luc and Sophie Thomson, and sister, Isabella, stopped by the third-annual “Trunk or Treat” event Monday at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre. Despite the drizzly weather, organizers of the Hallowe’en event deemed it a success, with an estimated 800 […]
Heather Latter Members of Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA) Local 607 set up a picket line at Innovative Civil Constructors Inc.’s construction site office off the Noden Causeway yesterday morning. In an effort to have their voices heard over a labour issue, the strike didn’t impact traffic on […]
Dave Ogilvie Aurora Cupp, the proud owner of a new rifle, couldn’t stop grinning as Emo and District Lions Club president Jodi Pellerin presented her with the prize. The gun raffle was just one of the popular activities at the club’s third-annual “Hunters’ Night” on Saturday in Barwick.
Muskie Kelsey Langtry was a step quicker than Portage Collegiate Institute Saints’ goalie Haley Swidnicki and defender Kiera Shwaluk to tap this puck in and give Fort High a 5-2 lead in the second period of Saturday night’s game at the ’52 Canadians Arena that the hosts won 6-3.
Eight years ago, Americans made history by electing the country’s first black president in Barack Obama. And they may be on the verge of doing so again this coming Tuesday if they choose to elect Hillary Clinton as the first woman to occupy the Oval Office. The world has seen […]
Rick Nordin Dear editor: I was very sad to read that the Rainy River Record will be ceasing publication. The paper was a link to the town where I was born and grew up and like many others who no longer live in the area, the Record provided news of […]
Samuel Giberson Dear Editor, I am proud to be part of Operation Legacy, in which members and graduates of The War Amps Child Amputee (CHAMP) Program pass on the Remembrance message to the younger generation. As Remembrance Day is fast approaching, I would like to pay special tribute to all […]
Claude DeBenedet, 95, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Monday, Oct. 31, 2016 at Rainycrest Long-Term Care in Fort Frances with his children by his side. Claude was born on April 4, 1921 in Fort Frances to the late Angelo and Enrica DeBenedet. He attended school and lived most of […]
