Steve Latimer and Sarah Vanderplaats will provide a one-two punch as guest speakers at the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s monthly luncheon this coming Tuesday at the Rainy Lake Hotel. The emphasis of their discussion will be on staffing and training programs offered in the Fort Frances area. Latimer, the […]
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The local public school board’s School Violence Prevention Team recognized district students for their efforts to promote anti-bullying with a ceremony last Wednesday afternoon at Fort Frances High School. While the SVPT held a poster contest for district students the previous two years, this year they asked them to write […]
The Health Services Review Appeal Board ruled yesterday that the Northwestern Health Unit does not have the right to legally make businesses “butt out” in the name of public health, although this power does lie with individual municipalities. A written copy of the decision from the appeal board released yesterday […]
Do you find yourself forgetting things? Well, much of this might be related to stress in the workplace, says the executive director of the Kenora-Rainy River branch of the Alzheimer Society. So Margaret Schonewille is encouraging all area businesses to take it easy for “Stress Down Friday” this Friday (Feb. […]
More tickets are being sold, more prizes and auction items being donated, and more volunteers jumping on board all the time. In short, the Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s annual fundraiser—which this year is in the form of a chair auction and casino on Saturday, Feb. 28 at the Memorial […]
The local Business Improvement Association named the winners of its first “My Special Valentine” contest last week. Entrants—ranging from three-year-old Chad Westover and Grade 8 students at St. Francis School to seniors like Chris Lowe—submitted either poems, artwork, or simply Valentine messages of love to the BIA. Judges Jen O’Reilly […]
Fort Frances and district residents will be in for a rare treat this weekend when an exhibition women’s hockey tournament comes to the Ice for Kids Arena this Saturday and Sunday. Two top teams from Thunder Bay and Winnipeg will face off against each other, as well as an all-star […]
Dietitian Jodis McCaine and Cindy Gauthier, RN, visited the Wheels to Meals program at the Emo Legion last Thursday to talk to the seniors about high blood pressure and its cause. Several factors can be to blame for this disease—being overweight, stress, family history, being physically inactive, smoking, excessive sodium […]
The Valley Adult Learning Association will continue to provide workplace training to adults facing “employment barriers” thanks to a $27,900 grant from the Trillium Foundation. The goal of the program is to work closely with adult and local employers to develop employment readiness goals that will best suit the needs […]
The Ministry of Health and Long-term Care has approved 10 temporary beds for Rainycrest Home for the Aged here. This raises the home’s bed capacity from 135 to 145. The announcement will help alleviate the acute care bed usage at Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc., Rainycrest administrator Jill Colquhoun said […]
Crisp, blue skies and nearly perfect snow conditions were the order of the day when the Rainy Lake Nordic Ski Club held its second-annual Blueberry Cider Poker Run at the Rocky Inlet trails Sunday afternoon. While the mercury didn’t climb much above minus-20 C, the lack of any windchill made […]
The Borderland Thunder head into tonight’s game against the host Dryden Ice Dogs unbeaten in their last five. In eight games against the Ice Dogs so far this season, the Thunder sport a 4-3-1 record, with three of those games having gone into overtime. In fact, Borderland is looking to […]
