Central Avenue residents sat united in the front row of the Civic Centre on Monday night as CN sought approval from council to dig a third trench under the sidewalk to expedite the clean-up of groundwater contaminated with diesel fuel. And they swayed council to delay giving the go-ahead–at least […]
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When only CAO Bill Naturkach and Coun. Struchan Gilson showed up for a meeting with CN officials on July 21, Central Avenue residents were skeptical about the support they had from the town. But after Monday’s council meeting, the residents were feeling like there were more people in their corner. […]
Although plans to grow commercial plots of hemp in the district fell through this year, the results from Dryden and Thunder Bay hemp growers seem quite promising. Those fields–all at least 10 acres in size–are growing hemp for grain, Gord Scheifele, the University of Guelph co-ordinator for Northern Ontario research […]
John Rose of Emo doesn’t know what to expect until he arrives in Kosovo with the second group of 250 men of the First Battalion Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry, which left for the Balkans from Edmonton, Alta. today. The first group of 250 left Edmonton at the end of […]
There are few things I enjoy more in life than garden herbs. I love the flavour they add to cooking. Even more, I love to see them thriving in my back-door herb bed and think of drying them for winter use. Oh, how they run riot when the sun is […]
There is only one thing more satisfying to a woman than being right. That in the process of being right, she proves her husband is wrong. I know this to be the truth. I’m a husband. Brian and Evie were off for a short drive. “Did you lock the front […]
Lucille Blackjack, 29, a member of Seine River Reserve, Ont., passed away Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1999 in Dryden Hospital in Dryden, Ont. She was the youngest in a large family of 13 born to Mary Friday Blackjack and Tom Blackjack on April 9, 1970. She grew up on Seine River […]
Curtis Alexander Halvorsen, 78, of Barwick, ON, passed away on Tuesday, August 10, 1999, at the Emo Hospital in Emo, ON. He was born on August 23, 1920, in Barwick, ON, to the late Hildor and Clara Halvorsen. Curtis had lived all his life in Barwick. He had worked for […]
Peacefully, on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1999, Mildred Ahrens went to be with her Lord. Mildred was a long-time resident of Rainycrest in Fort Frances, Ont. She was born in Stratton, Ont. on Aug. 18, 1920 and lived in the Rainy River District all her life. She and her husband, Otto […]
Sadly, we announce the passing of Mary Fredrickson at the Atikokan General Hospital in Atikokan, Ont. on Aug. 9, 1999 after a brief but courageous battle with cancer. She was born Mary Margaret Bowman on Jan. 18, 1930 in Chapple Township to John Nels Bowman and the former Fannie Dorothy […]
In memory of Pai-Nai-Soo-Be-Tung Fred Joseph Copenace, born on August 18, 1938, at Big Grassy First Nation. Died on Sunday, August 8, 1999. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of my husband, our father, grandfather, on Sunday, August 8, 1999 at the Rainy River Hospital. Fred […]
With great sadness, the family of Gerald Joseph (Jerry) Tetu of Fort Frances, Ont. mourn his passing. He passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by family, on Saturday morning, Aug. 7, 1999 after a courageous battle with cancer. Jerry was born Oct. 22, 1945 in Fort Frances. He had lived […]
