Rainy Lake is still rising–and today matched its 1974 level at 339.197 m (1,109.57 ft.)–but it may crest next week if there is no significant rain. “If we don’t get any significant rain, I think we’re going to see the rise declining and see it crest Tuesday or Wednesday, but […]
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It seems Bill 140 won’t force residential tax rates to rise here–or cause cuts to the town’s 2001 budget–after all thanks to an education tax reduction. During a special meeting Thursday afternoon, council voted to keep tax ratios the same as legislated by Bill 140–and also received an indication from […]
Days before final approval of a new Customs facility here, the town has been faced with the option of purchasing the international bridge. The idea, brought forward by local lawyer Lawrence G. Phillips in a letter to council last month, caught the attention of Abitibi-Consolidated’s general manager Jim Gartshore, who […]
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. and Boise Cascade have reached a tentative agreement with Revenue Canada which, once finalized, will allow construction of the new customs and immigration facility here to go ahead. “We reached a tentative agreement on the issue of sterile-zone operating and that’s the last hurdle,” Jim Gartshore, general manager […]
The hunt for summer jobs is on, and the Human Resource Centre of Canada for Students here wants those looking for work to know its doors are open. The centre, located at 301 Scott St. (above the post office), will hold its official opening Friday, starting with a ribbon-cutting at […]
Town council held a special meeting at noon Thursday to decide the 2001 tax rates, with a hike in residential taxes likely to be the outcome. With Bill 140 legislating that commercial, industrial, and multi-residential taxes be lowered to a certain ratio, council was faced with lowering those with a […]
Today, at 338.15 m (1,109.41 ft.), Rainy Lake has reached its highest level since 1974, when it peaked at about 338.2 m (1,109.58 ft.) in mid-June. Water levels on the lake passed the 1996 high of 338.1 m (1,109.25 ft.) yesterday when it reached 338.12 m (1,109.32 ft.). And with […]
The Fort Frances Royal Canadian Sea Cadets Corps (#144) held its annual ceremonial review last Wednesday evening (May 23) at the Emo-La Vallee Community Centre with 30 cadets participating. Training Officer SLT C. Lavigne welcomed everyone to this occasion and presented division information. Prior to the program, COX, N:CPO1 D. […]
Students who may need a little extra help in math and English could be seeing more of the classroom at both the elementary and secondary levels in July as the Rainy River District School Board is offering summer school. “Grade seven/eight students can once again get language and mathematics support […]
Travelling along Highway 11 east of town, you can’t help but notice a large number of pine trees that are visibly damaged or dead, standing out as red instead of their normal green. But it’s not any disease that’s doing this. “Most of the trees along that highway have suffered […]
“Take a step for peace.” That’s the message the National Peace Run organizers are hoping people will heed when the world’s largest and longest torch relay comes here June 2. The ceremony for the inspirational event will start at 9 a.m. in front of the Civic Centre, when Mayor Glenn […]
There will be no election at the annual meeting of Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc. next month as just the right amount of people filed nominations for the vacant seats on the board.
