The Fort Frances Museum will be holding art programs for both children and adults in conjunction with the current exhibition of the works of local artist Millie Eide Gladu. The children’s program will be held next Wednesday (Jan. 30)—a school P.D. day—while the one specifically for adults is scheduled for […]
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It may have been well below zero outside, but Kiwanis members had their hearts warmed last week when Kiwanian Irene Laing introduced Donna Lowey of Lowey’s Greenhouses as guest speaker at the club’s regular meeting. Lowey and her husband, Blair, are the owners of Lowey’s Greenhouse and Market Gardens. Their […]
Fourteen local entrepreneurial women attended the first Women’s Business Network meeting back on Jan. 10 at the Coffee Landing Metro in downtown International Falls. The event was organized by Jenny Dougherty, business consultant for the local Small Business Development Center. The purpose of the network is to provide a time […]
The Fort Frances Area Tribal Health Services Inc. will be offering the Grief Recovery Outreach Program, which will run Tuesdays from 7-9 p.m. beginning Jan. 29. “I think it’s really important for us First Nations people to begin doing our recovery work with issues that are most important to us. […]
Stemming from an incident that occurred while he was off-duty in the summer of 2006, Cst. Dan Bailey, a K-9 officer with the Rainy River District OPP detachment, received a medal of bravery from the province Friday afternoon. Lt.-Gov. David C. Onley invested a total of 14 police officers and […]
An Ear Falls trapper has been fined $700 for illegally-possessing a wolverine, an animal designated as “threatened” on the Species at Risk in Ontario list. Court was told that James Buckner, 58, sent a letter in late December, 2006 to the Ministry of Natural Resources office in Red Lake indicating […]
Two men have been fined $3,000 for illegally hunting and abandoning white-tailed deer. Stephen Whan, 37, of Cambridge and Douglas Johnson, 58, of Fort Frances were fined $500 each for hunting deer during the closed season and $1,000 each for abandoning meat suitable for food. They also are banned from […]
There were seven more winners in the Rainy River District Mutual Aid Association’s weekly cash calendar draw. Winning $30 for Jan. 13-19 were Pierrette Campbell (Sarnia, Ont.), Peggy Armstrong (Fort Frances), Ronald Hosken (Dryden), Doug Baird (Fort Frances), Samantha and Joel Taplin (Winnipeg), Vi Fulton (Thunder Bay), and Bea Gushulak […]
Marriages today face an enormous number of obstacles and challenges. In fact, the Vanier Institute of the Family has announced that one in three Canadian marriages will end in divorce. What are married couples and adults contemplating marriage to do? Well, several couples in Emo believe they’ve found an effective […]
The Rainy River OPP is looking for the public’s help concerning two residential break-ins that were reported there Friday (Jan. 18). The first occurred on the 300 block of Atwood Avenue. When the owner returned home, he found a door to his garage had been forced open. The owner told […]
Nearly 60 people were on hand for the annual meeting of the Rainy River Cattlemen’s Association last Wednesday night at Our Lady of the Way School in Stratton. RRCA president Ken McKinnon opened the meeting by thanking staff for all their hard work throughout the year. He also expressed his […]
Atikokan OPP responded to a motor vehicle collision with a moose on Saturday on Highway 11 about five km west of Atikokan. The driver was not injured, but his vehicle sustained enough damage that it could not be driven from the scene. The moose ran into the bush. Then on […]
