The Muskie “Bee” football team ran Jock Gemmell left. They ran him up the middle. And they also ran him to the right. And in the end, Gemmell ran the ball into the end zone from one yard out to pull the Muskies into a 6-6 tie with the Roseau […]
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When the Thunder Bay Thunder Cats of the United Hockey League elected to move the team to Rockford, Ill. for the upcoming season, there were no guarantees as to what players would make the move with them. But the team did manage to bring back eight from last year’s lineup–including […]
Dear sir: I am writing in regards to the opening of the new Rainy River Hospital. My mother, Helen McQuaker, was placed in Rainycrest in Fort Frances on Oct. 16, 1998. Papers were signed and my dad was told as soon as the new hospital was complete, she would be […]
Dear sir: Your Aug. 27 edition of the Daily Bulletin reported that several agencies, including the U.S. Army, Coast Guard, and Air National Guard, particpated in a law enforcement blitz that recently took place on Rainy Lake. In a manner reminiscent of the operations that resulted in more than 80 […]
Tomorrow’s open house at the water pollution control plant along the river on McIrvine Road also is doubling as its grand opening, with the ribbon-cutting ceremony set for noon. The open house gets underway at 11 a.m. and runs until 3 p.m. Bruce Spottiswood, superintendent of Public Works/Facilities, said work […]
The Rainy River Substance Abuse Prevention Team (SAP) is putting out feelers to community organizations and volunteers for ideas on substance abuse/injury programming to be submitted with their three-year activity plan to the Ministry of Health next week. SAP is now about halfway through Year Two of its five-year program. […]
For the six students who recently landed in the district as a part of the American/Scandinavian Student Exchange program, Canada was the country to sign up for. “Everybody goes to the USA,” said Julia Loos, 17, of Germany, noting she wanted to go someplace different. “The USA didn’t interest me […]
District elementary students soon will find out in the classroom that kidnapping, drugs, and other threats are not the number-one risks they face when the “Risk Watch” pilot program takes off later this month. A comprehensive injury prevention program overseen by the Rainy River Valley Safety Coalition, “Risk Watch” will […]
Dear editor: I am writing in regards to the border crossing between Fort Frances and International Falls. I read in our paper of the plans to widen Highway 53 from International Falls to Virginia, Mn. What happened to the idea of building a new bridge down river in the west […]
Dear sir: So, after much designing and re-designing, we have a new facility with “state of the art equipment”–the theatre called Townshend Theatre. This is great for our town. I was happy to see Natalie MacMaster is coming back to our town, and that she will be playing at the […]
Dear sir: Re: Student shuttle bus (Daily Bulletin, Sept. 2, 1999). How very thoughtful for the Business Improvement Area to provide a shuttle service for students at the new high school complex. Ironically, the BIA seems ready to shell out dollars to bring students away from school to hang out […]
Dear editor: At a time when victims of tobacco products are aggressively and successfully using a multi-billion-dollar tobacco industry, I can’t imagine why any province, school board, or college would expose itself to an equally aggressive court action. The article, “Battle over smoking smoldering at college,” in last Wednesday’s Fort […]
