I miss Nelson Mandela. I can feel the shift as if his very presence on Earth, the simple fact that he was breathing, kept us safer. I felt the air go out of me, felt my insides collapse, when I heard the news of his death—despite his death being imminent […]
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Joey Payeur The last time they met the Dryden Eagles in tournament play, the Muskie girls’ hockey team experienced tremendous disappointment. Fort High was bound and determined there would be no encore. Claire Sandelovich scored in the seventh round of the shootout, then watched teammate Kate Parsons deny Dryden’s Leah […]
Joey Payeur They’re one year older and they are counting on being at least one place better in the standings. That’s the goal for the Christopher Silver rink from Fort Frances, which captured the Northern Ontario Curling Association’s Bantam regional qualifier over the weekend in Sioux Lookout. Silver and his […]
Duane Hicks Rainy River Future Development Corp. is looking to review telecommunication services in Rainy River District. The RRFDC has applied for a Northern Communities Investment Readiness (NCIR) grant, and is looking for a consultant to undertake a review of the telecommunication services and infrastructure locally. “What we’re doing there […]
Heather Latter Three stroke survivors from Rainy River District have learned about strategies to manage the daily challenges of living with a stroke after completing a program called “MOST” (Moving On after Stroke), which was offered via teleconference through St. Joseph’s Care Group in Thunder Bay. “The first month it […]
Duane Hicks Mayor Roy Avis said this past year been a tough one for Fort Frances—and that 2014 will be challenging, as well. But he also feels the community will continue to persevere. “2013 was an unpredictable year, and probably the most challenging that I recall during my term as […]
Duane Hicks In an effort to cut costs, Canada Post is making big changes to its mail services beginning next year, including phasing out door-to-door delivery and hiking the price of individual postage stamps to $1. But not many are happy about the changes, not the least postal workers. “The […]
Duane Hicks While they’ve got plenty of food now, organizers of the community Christmas dinner are looking for volunteers for the 26th-annual event. “We certainly could use more,” said June Caul, who is in charge of volunteers for the dinner, which will take place Christmas Day from noon-2 p.m. at […]
Staff Any Muskie teams with games in Dryden, or Sioux Lookout or Red Lake, will have to follow the musical advice of Supertramp and take the long way home—and the way there, for that matter. Iron Range Bus Lines has cancelled any trips that involve driving on Highway 502 for […]
Heather Latter It now belongs to another family but regardless, the former Greensides General Store in Devlin will carry on with a family tradition. “It’s always been a family business—and we certainly have enough family who are willing to help out,” said Robin Payeur, who, along with her husband, Joey, […]
Joey Payeur Even a split week turned into a good-news situation for the Fort Frances Lakers. Despite going 1-1 against the expansion English River Miners in their only two games last week, the Lakers jumped one spot to No. 5 in the latest Canadian Junior ‘A’ Hockey League top 20 […]
Heather Latter Casey Slack, along with his daughter, Mikka, and Rowan Donaldson, handed over a generous donation of food to OPP Insp. Steve Shouldice at The Place on Saturday during the fourth-annual “Stuff-A-Cruiser” event hosted by the local OPP, with the assistance the CN Police, Treaty #3 Police, and Rainy […]
