Press Release The Citizens for Backus/AB are honoured to accept a grant of $4,800 from the Northland Foundation of Duluth, Mn. The funding will be used towards programs at Backus that provide food access to International Falls and surrounding communities. The two programs receiving the funding are the Community Café […]
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Press Release Donors across Northwestern Ontario continue to provide hope and exceptional cancer care services thanks to donations to the Northern Cancer Fund of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation. La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances is the recipient of two grants–totalling $14,677.41–for a new vital signs monitor and […]
Alison Oullet was all smiles when she finally got to meet the Easter Bunny at Lidkea Optometry after waiting in a long line of similarly-excited youngsters.
Nicholas Donaldson The Fort Frances Lions Club recently got an equipment upgrade from Shaw Cable to improve its weekly TV Bingo broadcast. Club member Bonnie Penney said they called with some problems and Shaw came within two weeks to do the upgrade. “They worked the entire day,” she noted. Lions’ […]
Kiwanian Diane Maxey, left, and her fellow organizers were kept busy by hundreds of parents and children who came by the Fort Frances Museum courtyard Saturday to sign up and get their maps to participate in “Egg-stravaganza.”
Those involved in promoting the performing arts locally deserve kudos for the important work they do. The Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts, for instance, has offered district students (and adults, too) the opportunity to showcase their musical, vocal, and dramatic talents for close to 80 years now. […]
Kiera KowalskiSummer reporter Since she was small, Joanne Ogden’s grandmother always said she would be a nurse, no matter how hard Ogden rejected the idea of it. Now, with almost 32 years of experience in the field, Ogden, a community health nurse here in Rainy River District, will travel to […]
Submitted Pharmasave was among the local businesses and agencies that celebrated the “Day of Pink” last Wednesday (April 12). Pictured here are Sue Korosec, front row left, Michelle Beck, and Donna Hyatt, and Patrick Goulding, back row left, Nancy Kehler, Naomi Sutton, Amanda Guimond, Chelsey Ogden, and Morgan Albisser. “Day […]
It was a Happy Easter for Darren Derendorf of Fort Frances, who won the $500 up for grabs April 16 in the Rainy River District Mutual Aid Association’s weekly cash calendar draw. Winning $30 for April 16-22 were Jamie Kora (Atikokan), Steve McNally (Beausejour, Man.), Brian Neilson (Emo), Gord Goodwin […]
Nicholas Donaldson Rhonda Snow (above) displayed her handmade artwork at the “Easter Market” held Saturday at the Copper River Inn here All of her proceeds go to the RR Spirit Horse Ranch to support her Ojibway horses–a rare breed she is preserving on her ranch outside of Fort Frances. Meanwhile, […]
Nicholas Donaldson Ryder Steele, Dominic Caul, Daylia Friday, and Autumn Yerxa on Thursday showed off some of the chicks that hatched in the Early Learning classroom at St. Michael’s School. While the eggs were in the incubator, the children were asked what would hatch from them. Some of the more […]
Submitted Joanne Ogden, second from right, celebrated her award of excellence in nursing with the Director of Health at Naicatchewenin First Nation, Armand Jourdain, and co-workers Lorraine Smith, Erin Smith, and Doreen Smith.
