Heather Latter Three more schools within the Rainy River District School Board will begin offering the full-day Early Learning program this fall. J.W. Walker School in Fort Frances, Donald Young School in Emo, and Sturgeon Creek School in Barwick will join Robert Moore School here and North Star Community School […]
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Heather Latter An accommodation review process, which will provide a recommendation for the future of Crossroads School in Devlin, is getting underway, with an initial committee meeting held last month. This review follows that of Donald Young School in Emo, which held its accommodation review process last year, and Sturgeon […]
Lucas Punkari After falling just one win short of qualify for the Page playoffs at last year’s Northern Ontario men’s curling championship in Sault Ste. Marie, the main objective for Stratton native Trevor Bonot is simple at this year’s event in Nipigon, which gets underway today. “Our goal is to […]
Heather Latter Presley Vader played “doctor” and gave this doll an “exam” yesterday as youngsters from the Zaagi-idiwin Aboriginal Headstart Program visited the Family Support program at the Circle of Life Centre here for a fun play day. Children got to play with snow and coloured water in an indoor […]
Heather Latter Grade 1 student Ashton Veldhuisen of St. Michael’s School celebrated the 100th day of class yesterday by donning spiffy “100th day” glasses and taking part in a variety of classroom activities based around the number “100.”
Heather Latter Jeremy Hughes, the library’s computer program trainer, showed stroke clinic nurse Marilyn Erwin how to use the Scanning and Reading Appliance (SARA) machine last Thursday during a “Stroke Stories” Internet training session presented by the local Stroke Prevention Clinic at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre. The […]
Lucas Punkari Fort Frances Lakers’ forward Jordan Christianson reacted after he was brought down by Riley Daly of the Minnesota Iron Rangers in front of goalie Chase Hollander during the visitors’ 3-1 win Saturday night at the Ice For Kids Arena.
It is with deep sadness that the family announces the passing of Gaylord (“Bebomaash”) Horton, 58, of Rainy River First Nations, Ont., on Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 at La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. Gaylord was born Thursday, March 18, 1954 in Emo, Ont. and had lived all his […]
Senate reform is making headlines again with word last week that the Harper government has asked the Supreme Court to rule on whether proposals such as holding elections for senators and imposing term limits are constitutional. Also on the table is the option of abolishing the Senate altogether. That latter […]
Heather Latter Grade 5 students from Jean Bujold’s class at St. Francis School took part in a Zumba fitness session at Energy Fitness here yesterday as part of their physical education component. It was the first of five sessions for the students.
