The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 29 held its annual poster and poem contest with winners from Grade 4 at Robert Moore School including Abigail Gibbons, left, Jayden Perreault, Allegra Brockie, and Sophie Calder. Not pictured were Jeremiah Indian-Trendiak and Mattie Beaulne. – Submitted photo
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Press release
The Rainy River District School Board is pleased to announce Beth Fairfield as the new system leader, effective June 1, 2022. She will be replacing Peg Keffer, who will be retiring at the end of the school year. Ms. Fairfield has been serving as the Assistant to the Director for […]
SCAP’s convocation took place Friday, June 17 with six graduates: (left to right, top to bottom) Darryl Kelly, Markayla DeVries, Laura Dykstra, Sophie Winik, Joshua Peters, and Walter Dyck. Only half of the graduates attended SCAP until graduation — Dykstra fulfilled her high school requirements in December, while Peters and […]
By Jessica Smith
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Diane Hill had just celebrated her seventh birthday when she first arrived at the Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont., in November, 1963. “The first night there I was crying,” said Hill, a retired Mohawk languages teacher at Six Nations of the Grand River. “I wanted my mom. I […]
The staff of Holmlund Financial fired up he grill for a free community barbecue last Thursday. The lunch hour event took place in their parking lot, to collect free-will donations for KidSport. They raised $470 for the organization, which provides financial support to enable families to enroll kids in sports […]
By Maggie Macintosh
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
An unlikely friendship between young learners from two Manitoba pre-schools 450 kilometres apart is being welcomed as a small act of reconciliation. Despite the distance between the two centres and their children’s developing literacy skills, Winnipeg’s Oak Street Nursery School and Headstart Misipawistik Cree Nation in Grand Rapids have found […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS
An inquest into the deaths of three women killed by their former partner in rural eastern Ontario is hearing about the importance of effective information sharing in cases of intimate partner violence. Carol Culleton, 66, Nathalie Warmerdam, 48, and Anastasia Kuzyk, 36, were killed on their properties in the Ottawa […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Parks Canada is asking motorists to slow down and watch for wildlife after three grizzly bears were struck and killed in Jasper and Yoho national parks earlier this month. The agency said two bears — a female and a male — died on the Trans-Canada Highway through Yoho National Park […]
