You couldn’t grow up during World War II without grieving. How well I remember the evening paper with its growing news and horrors. The bombs that fell on homes and businesses. And later, even on churches. Oh, there was an occasional bright spot, like the story of a London baker […]
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By Harry Vandetti
Just Passing By
Just Passing By
Forty years later, it’s still vivid in some minds how the air was filled with flying rocks and everyone around was put in peril when the Rainy Lake, or Noden, Causeway was under construction. The blasting continued night and day for a long time. It started with Tip Croome, a […]
Reuben Villagracia
A Reuben With A View
A Reuben With A View
You know what’s one of my guilty pleasures? I love the tell-tale signs when someone’s 15 minutes of fame is drawing to a close. In the world of sports—where worth is determined, for the most part, by how much front page you’ve covered or if you’ve received an apt amount […]
Milt Guba
The Week In Emo
The Week In Emo
The Wheels to Meals program has challenged Emo council to a carpet bowling tournament next Thursday (May 16) at the Legion. Other upcoming activities include the final club carpet bowling tournament (May 23), and carpet bowling and cards (May 30). Wheels to Meals will hold its season windup, featuring carpet […]
With delegates from 33 countries attending, the World Health Organization’s Conference on Safe Communities, which officially started here Tuesday morning, has lived up to be a truly international event. And in keeping with the spirit, the Rainy Lake Multicultural Association has planned a free mini “Culturama” on Wednesday to ensure […]
The Northwest Ontario Recycle Association will be no more as of June 30, selling its assets to the City of Dryden, NORA chair Dennis Brown revealed Tuesday. “At our board meeting on April 24, we decided the future just wasn’t there for NORA,” he remarked. “So the City of Dryden […]
Pipers, a children’s choir, and hundreds of volunteers, parents, and community members gathered on Tuesday morning to welcome the world to Fort Frances for the World Health Organization’s 11th International and 5th National Conference on Safe Communities. “Welcome to the greatest district in Ontario and also the safest,” said Mayor […]
While the Muskie girls’ soccer team snowed the competition in Winnipeg, the boys were simply snowed out. The ‘B’ final of the St. John’s Ravenscourt Invitational, which was to feature the Muskie boys against River East, was cancelled yesterday after the city awoke to blizzard-like conditions. “Just before our game, […]
Local Métis are being asked to come out to the Sunset Country Métis office and cast their ballot to elect a secretary-treasurer to the Provisional Council of the Métis Nation of Ontario (PCMNO). One of the names on the ballot is local resident Brent Calder, who is vying against Tim […]
Fishermen and boating enthusiasts rejoice! The ice on Rainy Lake might be completely gone by the end of the day, according to Silvia Ottarson of Rusty Myers’ Flying Service here. “Officially, it’s not completely out yet. We’ve had open water here for a while, out to Kettle Falls,” she remarked […]
Drivers licences will be issued, fire crews will be protecting local forests, and all corrections officers will be back to their regular shifts starting today as public service workers voted to end their eight-week strike. Striking Ontario Public Service Employees Union members voted this weekend to ratify a tentative deal […]
William (Chuck) Roach, 73, of 1131 Church St., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away after a lengthy illness May 3, 2002 at La Verendrye General Hospital. He passed peacefully with dignity and honour in his own way and time, surrounded by family. He was born Oct. 11, 1928 in Garden River, […]
