If it wasn’t for tournament anglers, the general fishing public wouldn’t be as quick to learn effective new techniques. Let’s face it, when your little boy or girl catches more fish, they usually have a better time. And if it wasn’t for the people and the companies who make these […]
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Two years of racing on the MN North Sno-cross circuit. And two overall championships for local racer Johnny Lundon. For the second year in a row, Lundon dominated the awards banquet in Hibbing, Mn. on Saturday, winning three second-place trophies and bringing home the overall points title over Minnesota’s Cory […]
Agreeing to disagree. That’s what came out of recent talks between the tourism and forestry sectors on so-called Resource Stewardship Agreements, which were discussed at length last Thursday at the annual spring meeting of the North Western Ontario Tourism Association in Morson. Gary Beardsley, of the Northern Ontario Tourism Organization […]
Every pew at Bethel Baptist Church here, and then all the rows of impromptu seating in the aisles, were filled Friday night to welcome the African Children’s Choir. About 400 people crammed into the church to listen to the travelling choir of 23 children sing an African version of Gospel […]
Dan Jones now has what he sees as an open door into the music industry–his computer. Coupled with a precise recording program, Jones’ computer can moonlight as a full-fledged recording studio, he said. “A lot of new bands sit at home and don’t need much more than a computer and […]
Steve Arpin has signed a one-year contract with Polaris that will see the 16-year-old Fort Frances racer represent the company at such snowmobile races as the World Championships in Eagle River, Wis. and another top one in Val Court, Que. “I expected a contract from Polaris, and it happened,” his […]
As summer school marches towards its July 18th conclusion, seeing 48 grade seven and eight students attending half or full days refining their math and English skills across the district, the Rainy River District School Board is discussing expanding the program in the future. “One of the things we’ve been […]
How do you feed 2,000 people in one sitting? With a calculator, of course. That’s how Kathy Cuthbertson of “Kathy’s Katering” here figured out how much it would take to feed the masses attending the FFHS Millennium Reunion supper Saturday night. “Because I’ve been [catering] for 18 years, I knew […]
Back in 1972, there was a house in town called “Spaz’s House.” Two of its occupants, and their friends, drove proudly around town in what they called the “Spazmobile.” They’d stop at stop signs, leap out of the Spazmobile, and run around it before jumping back in. They were called […]
As “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” continues to levitate off store shelves and into readers’ hands across the country, kids and grown-ups alike are proving to be enchanted by tales of the boy wizard from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. “They love the story, they love the […]
Metta Visser would rather not make a trip from Emo to Thunder Bay three times a week. As such, she’s pleased she may not have to much longer if a hemodialysis unit becomes a reality at La Verendrye hospital here. “It would be really beneficial,” said Visser, who has been […]
As a massive fundraising campaign to renovate La Verendrye hospital here and the Emo Health Centre continues full tilt, the group that helped lay the first bricks are quietly leaving town. Sister Marguerite Forest, 68, and Sister Cecile Maurice, 86, will be moving out of their home on 210 Armit […]
