Duane Hicks Work on the future Rainy Lake Square is getting underway with RML Contracting of Thunder Bay now on site. Fencing has been put up and equipment is being mobilized, as the contractor gets to work on the $2.1 million project, which includes not only the construction of a […]
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Nicholas Donaldson Rachel Ste. Croix, left, Gemma Perreault, Olivia Handberg and Alexis Latter performed their award-winning reading of “Three Little Kittens” by June Barr for the the Rainy River Festival of the Performing Arts’ 77th-annual Highlights Concert at the Townshend Theatre last Tuesday. The quartet won the CJD Reader’s Theatre […]
Nicholas Donaldson Last Wednesday, Lillie MacKinnon, Matt Barron, and Cierah Thompson presented 100 dream catchers to Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. on behalf of the students of Fort Frances High School. The dream catchers will be given to newborns delivered at La Verendrye Hospital here as part of an initiative […]
Nicholas Donaldson Representatives of Fort High, the local public school board, UNFC, and the Gizhewaadiziwin Health Access Centre presented 100 homemade dream-catchers to La Verendrye staff there last Wednesday, with 100 more on the way in the near future.
After a brief stint at home where I got to spoil myself and spend a couple of days fishing for bass around Sunset Country I am back on the road in the U.S. this week, albeit a lot closer to home than I usually am. The sixth stop of the […]
Mother’s Day has just passed and I now have a new self-propelled, lightweight, battery-powered lawnmower in my shed in honour of being a mother. I can’t wait to give it a go when the rain stops. I look forward to not dragging and pushing the old Toro around, whose air […]
Many are talking about needing a nice warm rain and how our mornings are still cool. Both are likely true, but I will take dry, cool days over wet anytime. It will happen–it always does. It is looking like tomorrow we will see some rain and the grass will grow […]
It has been two weeks since I wrote my last column. In the meantime, Marnie and I travelled to our son Adam’s wedding to Meesun Shin in Seoul, South Korea. Seoul proper is a city of 10 million people and the region has some 25 million people all within 100 […]
Press Release Most of us don’t realize how valuable our car keys are until we lose them. In recent years, remote starters and built-in unlock systems have sharply driven up the cost and complexity of the humble car key, with some owners paying hundreds of dollars in replacement fees. War […]
Duane Hicks A recent university grad with local ties has started a new job as parliamentary assistant to Vancouver Centre Liberal MP Hedy Fry–the longest-serving female in the House of Commons. Lindsay Campbell, granddaughter of local residents Bud and Dorleen Dyrland, has been in the new role since April 24, […]
