Heather Latter The Rainy River District School Board presented its monthly “Recognition of Excellence” award to Angela Petsnick, of the Environmental Education Committee, at its regular meeting last Tuesday night. “The Environmental Education Committee has initiated several projects to engage students in their learning, especially in creating healthy, environmentally-conscious schools […]
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Lucas Punkari While a seven-point loss to last year’s Andy Currie ‘A’ Division runner-ups certainly is nothing to sneeze at, Muskie football head coach Chad Canfield felt like his team had let an opportunity slip away here Friday afternoon. In what proved to be a tightly-contested affair, the Elmwood Giants […]
Lucas Punkari Although his team was on the losing end of a pair of exhibition contests against the Dryden Ice Dogs over the weekend, Fort Frances Lakers’ head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan felt the squad gained some valuable knowledge they’ll use to build towards the start of the […]
Heather Latter Riding bikes decked out in pink, a group of cyclists headed along the highway from Alberton to Fort Frances yesterday afternoon during the official launch of the Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s “Together We Can” campaign to purchase a new digital mammography unit for La Verendrye Hospital here.
Duane Hicks Lyle Turgeon, a graduate of the Class of ’52, looked over some of the many photos on display during Fort Frances High School’s “Reunion 60” here Saturday, pointing out a photograph of himself and his late friend, Ronny Lee, as boys. Students who attended Fort High from the […]
Ken Johnston Firefighters battled a blaze at the CN Hotel in Rainy River on Monday morning as the 109-year-old building burned down. The fire call came in at 7:39 a.m. as a passer-by noticed smoke coming out of the upper floor. By 11 a.m., most of the structure was gone. […]
Lucas Punkari Muskie quarterback Tobijah Gerber got ready to throw the ball towards an open receiver here Friday afternoon as the black-and-gold hosted the Elmwood Giants in the WHSFL season-opener. The game—Gerber’s first since 2010 after he missed all of last season due to an ACL injury—saw Fort High fall […]
Word that one-in-four Grade 10 students with the Rainy River District School Board failed to meet the provincial standard for the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test is troubling news. Overall, the success rate of 75 percent declined by five percent from a year ago and continued a downward trend from […]
By the time you read this column, the cross-district bike ride for the “Together We Can” fundraising campaign to replace the mammography machine at La Verendrye Hospital here will have been completed. But the campaign to raise funds for the new machine only will have been kicked off. Just as […]
Sometimes when I open my mouth, what comes out are words I wish I had never said out loud. I’ve made that mistake a few times lately and, of course, the afterlife of regret lingers longer than it’s welcome, like the smell of campfire in my hair that takes two […]
By Gary Sliworsky, Ag rep, Emo Soil fertility plays a major role in fall pasture growth, the over-wintering of the plants, and the following spring’s production. Fall is a good time of year to help a pasture that is struggling from being over-grazed, stressed by poor growing conditions, or a […]
It’s funny how things go but the coldest day we’ve had since March happened to coincide with our fall cattle tour! It didn’t deter anyone, though, and the day was absolutely great! And the feedback we received was very positive! It certainly was a long day–we left the Emo Agricultural […]
