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JOSEPH (JOE) OLYNYK

9 October 2013

The greatest mushroom and blueberry patch in Heaven now has someone special walking there with a huge smile on his face. Joseph (Joe) Olynyk entered into Heaven on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 at the age of 83 due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. Joe was born Aug. 26, 1930 in […]

Many benefits

9 October 2013

Dear editor: Last week’s bear attack near Peterborough is an important reminder to people, and provincial politicians in particular (because bear management is provincial responsibility), of the benefits of a spring bear hunt. Ontario’s spring bear hunt was a successful wildlife population management tool to assist in maintaining the abundance […]

No respect

9 October 2013

Dear editor: Re: a notice in the Times last week by the Rainy River District School Board to hold a meeting on Nov. 19 at a business in Fort Frances. This meeting is for the school board to receive information from the three Pupil Accommodation Review processes that were held […]

Dismayed

9 October 2013

Dear editor: I am writing you about my dismay at seeing the new Christmas parade format in the Oct. 2 issue of the Times. Having participated in the parade for the past several years with a float, I can’t see the benefit of having a parade of lights parked in […]

Change venue

9 October 2013

Few local issues garner as much emotion and controversy as school closures, and that’s certain to be the case yet again as the local public board wrestles with the future of Donald Young in Emo, Sturgeon Creek in Barwick, and Crossroads in Devlin over the next three months. The Rainy […]

ANGUS

9 October 2013

ANGUS–Born to Ashley Shaw and Tommy Angus, of Devlin, Ontario, a boy, Corbin Geoffrey Dean, weighing 8 lbs. 7 oz. on September 26, 2013 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.

TUESDAY

9 October 2013

TUESDAY–Born to Taylor Perrault and Brett Tuesday, of Red Gut Bay, Ontario, a boy, Grayson Skylar, weighing 6 lbs. 7 oz. on September 24, 2013 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.

COMEGAN

9 October 2013

COMEGAN–Born to Roxanne Handorgan and Sean Comegan, of Morson, Ontario, a boy, Chael William, weighing 7 lbs. 11 oz. on September 24, 2013 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.

KABATAY

9 October 2013

KABATAY–Born to Emily Potson and John Kabatay Jr., of Seine River, Ontario, a girl, Harper Alexandra, weighing 7 lbs. 15 oz. on September 21, 2013 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.

TORKELSON

9 October 2013

TORKELSON–Born to Jason and Jennifer, nee Martin, of Mine Centre, Ontario , a girl, Rita Joy, weighing 8 lbs. 2 oz. on September 21, 2013 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.

Food donation

8 October 2013

Heather Latter Salvation Army Lt. Dennis Maybury, left, dropped by Robert Moore School yesterday to pick up boxes full of food donated by the students there for the local food bank. Pictured are Dana Kosowick’s Grade 6 students who organized the school-wide food drive. But bringing in the most donations […]

Rally walk

8 October 2013

Heather Latter Supporters of the “Idle No More” movement marched along Highway 11 from Couchiching to the Point and back yesterday to honour indigenous sovereignty and for the protection of treaty rights. The Rainy River/Treaty 3 Territory rally also saw people walking for their spiritual ancestors, future generations, missing and […]

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