Dear editor, We owned and operated Windy Bay Lodge, a bear hunting camp north of Rainy River, from 1978 to 1990. We, too, are dismayed and confused by the cancellation of the spring bear hunt but the hypocrisy and phony outrage of our local MPPs–Howard Hampton and Frank Miclash–cannot be […]
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Dear sir: Cancel the spring bear hunt? Big deal–it doesn’t affect me! That was my thought at first as I am not a hunter and own no guns. But I am in retail sales, and I had two truck deals go on hold and possibly cancelled–all because my customers were […]
How would you portray what “home” is? The town or city where you grew up might come to mind, or perhaps the familiar dwelling you will head to after work today. No matter what images you drum up, the Heritage Canada Foundation wants us to rethink how closely our “homes” […]
The 20 contenders are set to take to the stage upstairs at Memorial Arena on Friday night to compete in the fifth-annual “Quest for the Best.” Seven singers–Alyson Booth, Heather Mihichuk, Debbie Connon, Garry Matthewson, Graham Matheson, Tara Hakala, and Marc Desforges–will be returning to the contest this year while […]
With tickets for Friday night’s “Quest for the Best” selling out literally within minutes of going on sale Monday morning, complaints started rolling in almost as quickly. In response to the outcry, “Quest” co-ordinator Pearl Pidlubny announced yesterday afternoon that Videon (Channel 9) would be broadcasting the event live from […]
Many people were shocked and saddened by an incident last Tuesday when seven puppies were found abandoned in a dumpster behind the 364 Store here. But the local “Friends of Animals” group sees the act as not only a tragedy but a wake-up call for people to start taking the […]
First-grader Josh Wilson was the guest of the honour at last night’s Rainy River District School Board meeting to show off his much improved reading skills. A student in Charleen Gustafson’s class at Donald Young School in Emo, Wilson was the first graduate from the “Reading Recovery” program started in […]
It may have been the last bonspiel hosted at the Barwick rink and if it is, at least it went out in style. Glen Jackson, organizer of the Chapple Centennial Bonspiel, said he was still getting phone calls Monday morning from curlers offering words of thanks and congratulations over the […]
The reason why the Emo Centennial committee chose a steamship for its 100th anniversary logo is based very much on the history of the Rainy River District.
Through history, different preoccupations have shaped human life. It was agriculture for a thousand years, industrial development for several hundred. The information age dominated for about 70, and now we are entering the bio-economy. Each kind of activity remains with us. But the dominant forces change. What will be next, […]
So far, I’ve never been to England. But when I do go, I know exactly what my first stop will be–Hewstead Abbey. And once at the abbey, I will head straight for an ancient marker and stoop to read the words etched in stone nearly two centuries ago. The occasion […]
