The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres may not be on the ice yet, but the off-ice preparations are in full swing as the team begins preparations for the 2008 Superior International Junior Hockey League season. Head coach Wayne Strachan has agreed to a three-year contract with the club, which instills some […]
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Ten district businesses were saluted last Wednesday evening at La Place Rendez-Vous here as the Rainy River Future Development Corp. unveiled its annual Customer Service Award recipients. This year’s winners (in alphabetical order) were Cloverleaf Grocery (Emo), Corner Closet (Emo), Curves For Women, Fort Frances General Supply, Green’s Countrywide Furniture, […]
The Rainy River District School Board recently launched a new web-based program called “SchoolHouse,” which is designed to deliver student information to parents through their personal computers. “It really focuses on positive home-school communication, which is a correlate of effective schools research,” stressed IT co-ordinator Chris Denby, who developed the […]
Due to the initiative of the Rainy River Valley Safety Coalition, Rainy River District has proven it is at the forefront of safety at both the national and international levels following its re-designation as a “Safe Community” last Wednesday afternoon. During a ceremony at La Place Rendez-Vous, Paul Kells, founder […]
It took another big finish, but unlike last year, this time it was good enough to take home the hardware. Doug McBride of Devlin and Steve Ballan of Fort Frances managed a tournament-best one-day haul of 14.11 pounds Saturday to capture the seventh-annual Emo Walleye Classic and reclaim the title […]
In addition to planning a memorial to commemorate the 17 lives lost in the Dance fire in October, 1938, a local committee also would like to have a book written about the tragedy. “More and more people are coming forward with stories and we’d really like to compile them all,” […]
While a majority of the Fort Frances Public Library board still agrees the new library should be built as a stand-alone structure, the building committee will conduct a study to try and get a better idea as to how much savings could be realized if the project was built in […]
Alberton Reeve Mike Hammond looked on as Emo Coun. Gerd O’Sullivan signed an agreement to officially re-designate her municipality as a “Safe Community” last Wednesday afternoon during a ceremony at La Place Rendez-Vous. Representatives from most of the 10 local municipalities and nine area First Nations were on hand for […]
Paul Jewiss showed off one of the fish he and teammate Mike Graham had caught during the final weigh-in of the Emo Walleye Classic on Saturday afternoon at the Emo/La Vallee Arena. The pair finished in eighth spot with a combined two-day weight of 16.18 pounds.
Janet Lambert and Jamie Hanke got a jump start on their fellow competitors in the Emo Walleye Classic, reeling in a walleye early Friday morning below the dam at Fort Frances. But Team #50 couldn’t snag the big one and ended up finishing in 52nd spot.
Chanelle Matthews, a student in Eva Vizi’s Grade 7/8 French Immersion class at St. Francis School, created a tribal mask during Cher Pruys’ art workshop held Friday. The workshop ran on two afternoons, where the students studied tribal masks, formed their own out of clay, and then painted their creations. […]
Doug McBride of Devlin held up the 7.85-pound lunker—the big fish of the tournament—that helped him and partner Steve Ballan capture the seventh-annual Emo Walleye Classic on Saturday. The duo won their second EWC crown in convincing fashion, eclipsing the rest of the field by nearly four pounds.
