Duane Hicks With the deadline to enter the Rainy River Arts Collective’s inaugural snow sculpture project coming up Saturday (Feb. 4), organizers are hoping more teams will sign up to participate. As of yesterday afternoon, there has been little response to the call for entries, noted Fort Frances Museum curator […]
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Press Release With February being Heart and Stroke Month, the Memorial Sports Centre and the Stroke Prevention Clinic are joining together to offer a fun approach to lowering your stroke risk factors. For the month of February, the Memorial Sports Centre is offering free day passes to be used in […]
Dave Ogilvie Since it was first organized is 1900, members of the Rainy River District Agricultural Society quietly have spent many hours behind the scenes planning and implementing successful fall fairs in Emo each August for the participants, workers, vendors, and visitors to the district alike. Their dedication to the […]
Staff The Fort Frances Canadians Midget ‘AA’ hockey team once again was unstoppable during its annual trip to the FASA Invitational tournament in Grand Forks, N.D. The squad captured its third-consecutive crown and fourth overall. The final Sunday afternoon against the Richland Rangers was a one-sided affair as the Canadians […]
Staff Alina Eldridge was the top skater for the Border Skating Club at the Sunset Country regionals in Kenora over the weekend, nabbing three first-place finishes. Eldridge was tops in the Preliminary Elements Flight ‘B’ event on Friday, the Preliminary/Pre-Preliminary Skills competition on Saturday, and the Preliminary Flight ‘A’ event […]
Lucas Punkari The situation is simple. If there are not enough volunteers willing to help out with Fort Frances Youth Soccer this year, and if an interest to fill positions on the board of directors isn’t shown at the annual general meeting next Tuesday (Feb. 7), there won’t be a […]
Lucas Punkari A few days after being crowned provincial champ, and qualifying for this year’s Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Red Deer, Alta., the sense of what she had accomplished was just starting to hit former Muskie curler Jenna Enge. “It’s starting to sink in a little bit,” noted the […]
Heather Latter Municipal leaders banded together Saturday to oppose a plan which would result in the relocation of the resident judge for Rainy River District to a base in Kenora or Dryden. Local lawyer Wes Derksen, representing the Rainy River Law Association (RRLA), also was on hand at the Rainy […]
Lucas Punkari For Stratton’s Trevor Bonot and Devlin’s Mike Badiuk, the goals are simple as they head into the Northern Ontario men’s curling playdowns starting Sunday in Sault Ste. Marie. Playoffs or bust. “If we have a good week, I think we have a good chance of making it to […]
Lucas Punkari Fort Frances native Jonathan Glueheisen took matters into his own hands when he saw that no one else was taking the initiative to submit a bid in this year’s Kraft “Hockeyville” contest. Glueheisen, who works at Fort Frances General Supply, put a bid onto the “Hockeyville” website ahead […]
Heather Latter It was a miserably cold December morning when Gar Faragher awoke and noticed a hump of snow on the glare ice of the pond outside his home east of Fort Frances. “Was that muskrat house always there?” his partner, Judy Tucker, recalled him asking. It wasn’t until a […]
Heather Latter Given the shortage of doctors across the district, including in Rainy River where the lone full-time physician, Dr. Dave Singleton, plans to resign in June, 2013, the future of the Rainy River Health Centre’s emergency room remains uncertain. Should it close, land ambulance costs will increase in an […]
