Family Literacy Day, co-ordinated by the Emo Public Library and the Emo Toy Library last Tuesday (Jan. 27) was very well-received. There was a literacy workshop for the adults while the children enjoyed a pajama party, complete with stories and activities,. Each child brought along their own stuffed animal or […]
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In an effort to make the transition from home to school more personal for parents and young children, the Rainy River District School Board announced a new registration process for prospective Junior and Senior Kindergarten students at its regular meeting here Tuesday night. “We want to make the registration process […]
Did you know that 5,276 pennies placed side by side would measure one kilometre? Or that you would have to stack about 2,740 pennies to touch a ceiling three metres high? These are some of the fun “penny facts” students at Robert Moore School have been hearing during morning announcements […]
The Fort Frances Visserettes competed in the regional championships in Thunder Bay on Jan. 23-24, where they did well against tumblers from Kenora, Red Lake, Sioux Lookout, Dryden, and the host city. “For a lot of the girls, it was their first time competing in public,” noted coach Mirela Bica. […]
The municipal council of Fort Frances has been quite forthright about the community’s financial shape. The town’s financial books may not be as rosy as they have been in the past decade, but the community’s reserves do cover its total debt. With that said, though, it must be understood those […]
The Emo-Devlin-Barwick Minor Hockey Association hosted its annual novice tournament last Friday and Saturday but only five teams took part in the round-robin showdown. They included the host Emo OPP along with four from Fort Frances (Skates and Blades, Times Tigers, Taggs, and Foodtown Fury). Despite the relative lack of […]
It was a banner weekend for the local Pinewood Sports Bantam girls’ hockey team as they battled through multiple overtimes in the championship game to claim a 1-0 victory over the Bratland Huskies (Dryden) at the annual Kathy Sanders Memorial tournament. The see-saw affair featured end-to-end action—and solid goaltending—as the […]
There’s something to be said for hosting a tournament and then winning it. At least for the Crossroads Tornadoes, it sure beats not winning and reinforces the Devlin school’s motto, “Go big or go home.” In this case, the boys’ basketball team won big at home when it finished atop […]
Grades 6-8 students at Donald Young School in Emo held their “Hoops for Heart” last Wednesday (Jan. 28) and raised more than $1,500 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. The two top fundraisers were Jonathon Blattner and Charmaine King. “‘Hoops for Heart’ is similar to ‘Jump Rope for Heart,’” noted […]
Local OPP officer Scott Gobeil and his rink will be off to Hamilton next month to face off against fellow officers from across Canada after capturing the 2004 Manitoba Police Curling Championship title late yesterday afternoon. Gobeil, along with third Dave Priestly and second Scott Bell, both of the Winnipeg […]
Crossroads School hosted a basketball tournament last Saturday (Jan. 31) with five teams participating. And when the final game was played, the host team had earned the gold. The Atikokan Voyageurs took home the silver while the St. Francis Sentinels (‘A’ team) picked up the bronze. Congratulations, boys! Crossroads will […]
After years of arranging exports to the U.S. for Norfab Building Components here, Bill Boulton has broadened his scope to building business relationships of all sorts early last month with his new job as a senior trade advisor for the Northwest-Midwest Alliance—a program of the Northwestern Ontario Development Network (NODN). […]
