Four staff members of the United Native Friendship Centre’s youth drop-in centre will canoe from Fort Frances to Rainy River to raise money for the D.A.R.E. program and a sound system for the centre. Brad Herbert, the Healing and Wellness Youth Support co-ordinator for the U.N.F.C., and youth workers R.J. […]
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They are quietly behind the scenes at most major events and this weekend, well over 100 amateur radio operators quietly converged in Fort Frances for their annual get-together. “Camp 807,” a network of radio operators in Dryden, Kenora, and Fort Frances, gathered at the Holiday Village Campground to swap ideas, […]
The Emo Bulldogs, who sparkled in last year’s Division II NAFA World Series, won’t be making the trip there later this month due to travelling and player availability problems. Team manager Grant Swire said a major barrier was getting their core squad together to play in tournaments outside the Rainy […]
Despite the absence of defending champions, the fifth-annual “Ball Blast” tournament, hosted by the Borderland men’s and women’s soccer leagues, still is looking to provide a fun weekend of competition. The Kenora Rangers men’s team dropped out of the tourney at the last minute while MEC, the defending women’s champs, […]
Margaret Heyens had as a recent visitor her son, John, from the Canadian Army based in Edmonton. He also visited with his sister, Lisa, and family at Ignace and Jennifer in Nestor Falls, before returning to his home base. John served with the peacekeepers in Bosnia but is uncertain of […]
The old cliche–“three strikes and you’re out”–almost described the Devlin/La Vallee area last Tuesday as three storms and perhaps a tornado roared through the villages. The first storm hit about 6:30 a.m., showing signs that this wasn’t a typical storm for our area as several willow trees were ripped out […]
Dear editor: The camp organizing committee of Camp Quality of Northwestern Ontario is on its way to collecting the funds needed to make the first camp for children with cancer–active or in remission–a reality. This camp is planned for August, 2002 at Camp Duncan on Loon Lake near Thunder Bay, […]
Dear editor: As a summer student at Hydro One, I had the opportunity to witness the damage caused by the recent severe weather. I was truly amazed at the dedication and tireless effort of the Hydro One crews. Hydro One employees from our own area as well as Thunder Bay, […]
The weather has been the talk of the district this past week, given last Tuesday’s ferocious storms followed by several days of stifling heat. Open to debate, of course, is whether this is just another example of Mother Nature’s cyclical fickleness, or the first signs of long-term climate change due […]
Thunder head coach Wayne Strachan was pleased with the turnout and effort at the team’s first-ever tryout camp last weekend at the Memorial Sports Centre. But he had to face the task of cutting more than half of 65 local and out-of-town hopefuls who took to the ice trying to […]
After tornadoes touched down in Morson and Devlin, and torrential rains hit the rest of the district, residents showed strong community spirit by helping each other out. The morning after wind storms tore apart numerous barns and houses along Highway 613 in Devlin, residents were out helping to clear trees, […]
Following last Tuesday’s high winds and torrential downpours, several district communities are considering sending in applications for emergency funding through the Ontario Disaster Relief Assistance Program. While communities like Devlin, Morson, and Rainy River are still reeling from the storm damage, councils and administrators are beginning to look to the […]
