After three nomination meetings held across the riding last week, John Rafferty was elected to represent the New Democratic Party in the new Thunder Bay-Rainy River in the next federal election. The announcement was made after the third and final meeting in Thunder Bay last Thursday. The riding association had […]
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The local Kiwanis Club once again is looking to raise money to help district children with its 26th-annual TV auction this Saturday on Channel 10. “I’m hoping we do as well as we did last year,” organizer Harry Jones said Monday, adding the club netted about $11,000 in 2003. “Except […]
The Riverside Foundation for Health Care presents the Thunder Bay Legends—“A Tribute Artist Extravaganza”—here this Saturday, and among those taking to the stage at the Townshend Theatre will be “Trisha Yearwood,” better known to her friends and family in Fort Frances as Pat Cupp. “What a wonderful opportunity to come […]
In what was considered perhaps the largest gathering of Business Improvement Association members in more than a decade, about 30 local merchants and restaurant owners met Tuesday evening to discuss revitalizing the downtown core. And after two hours, and much discussion, members saw five new committees formed, a date set […]
An enrolment report presented to the Northwest Catholic District School Board at its monthly meeting here Tuesday night showed a substantial decrease since the last report in October. The board lost 12.5 full-time equivalent (FTE) students—or 18 actual ones—among its five schools between Oct. 31, 2003 and March 31, 2004. […]
Perhaps there is no better indicator in Rainy River District that winter is finally behind us than the annual extravaganza known as Spring Fever Days. For three days, Emo becomes the social centre of Borderland and this year was no exception. Even Mother Nature co-operated as the little town on […]
Plans will get rolling next week now that Fort Frances has landed its bid to host the OFSAA boys’ hockey championship in 2006. As first reported in Friday’s Daily Bulletin, the town’s bid was presented to a committee in Toronto that morning by Harry Curtis, the NWOSSAA boys’ rep to […]
Born to Mike and Pamela, nee Gladu, of Thunder Bay, Ont., a girl, Tatianna Jae, weighing 8 lbs. 12 oz. on April 8, 2004 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
