The Rainy River Future Development Corp. was given $50,000 in FedNor funding this year and next to maintain its office in Rainy River. The office there had opened its doors last year, with Dan Wright hired as an additional economic development officer. Local MP Robert Nault said yesterday he believed […]
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If you’re going to spend 160-plus days together in a canoe going across Canada, make sure you do it with someone you know really well. It was a piece of advice from Carrie McGown, 23, and Martha Mortson, 24, a pair of recent graduates from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, […]
Last Friday afternoon in Rainy River, about 50 dignitaries from Steinbach to Atikokan gathered at the birthplace of the Manitoba-Ontario-Minnesota (M.O.M.’s) Way to officially open what’s being pitched as an alternate route between Thunder Bay and Winnipeg. A consultant who looked at the idea identified a potential for increased traffic […]
By Linda Wiens
Quetico Centre
Quetico Centre
They say the best things in life are free. I say the best things in life are free for the taking on. That’s how community spirit grows. It is one of the good things in life, and I’ve just had three great experiences of it. Friends now living in Toronto […]
The largemouth bass is a good-sized fish. It makes fine eating, it puts up a good fight when caught, and it is very prolific. Not much wonder it is the most popular game fish in the U.S. The largemouth is bigger than its close relative, the smallmouth bass. In fact, […]
Ian Campbell Noakes, formerly of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away peacefully with his family by his side after a brief illness on July 15, 1999 at the Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga, Ont. He was the dearly beloved husband of Catherine; loving father of Frank and his wife, Cindy, of […]
The Smoke Alarm For Every Baby program is more than six months old. To date, more than 150 smoke alarms have been distributed to the parents of each newborn baby in the district. The program is funded by the Rainy River District Mutual Aid Fire Association and Canadian Tire (Fort […]
At the Cafe in the Bailiwick the other morning, the local politicians were gathered for their caffeine intake and ruminating over the events of the July 1 celebrations. This celebration is the main occasion of the year when Bailiwick’s politicians–young and old–get out and press the flesh in anticipation of […]
By Perry Good
Outdoors Pro-Mo
Outdoors Pro-Mo
Spinner rigs used to be a real popular way to take walleye. But in the past few years, they’ve lost some of that popularity in some areas of walleye country. That’s strange because spinner rigs are still very effective lure types for taking walleye. The spinner rigs we’re talking about […]
Playing against a strong field of golfers at the annual Smokey Bear tournament in International Falls last weekend, Greg Ross knew it would be tough to repeat as champion. He would have to play solid golf all weekend–and hope to benefit from a few breaks along the way. To his […]
Enough interest may have risen to get the Borderland High Fliers Kite Club off the ground in the next few weeks, noted John Willis of Kippewa Gardens in International Falls. Willis and his wife, Katherine, brought their kites to Emo’s centennial celebrations and the Fourth of July holiday in the […]
After dominating much of their game against Dryden at a soccer tournament there Saturday, the Fort Frances Diamondbacks ran into some injury troubles. First Carolyn Spencer went down with a knee injury, then Karma Chudobiak got a bloody nose from an errant ball, which left the Fort Frances squad–made up […]
