At approximately 7:30 p.m. yesterday, members of the Dryden Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were called to investigate a single vehicle (car) motor vehicle collision on McIntosh Road in Smellie Township, north of Vermillion Bay. As a result of the investigation, a 22-year-old Vermillion Bay man has been […]
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The forest fire hazard is mainly high throughout most of the Northwest Region with some moderate hazard conditions in the far north. There were three new fires confirmed in the Northwest Region by yesterday afternoon. Sioux Lookout fire #58 is located north of Lac Seul, approximately 59 kilometres northwest of […]
If Ontario is open for business, Greg Rickford, our member of Provincial Parliament, must impress upon Doug Ford and his colleagues at Queen’s Park that the Ontario government cannot stand idly by while a Quebec company monopolizes Northwestern Ontario’s forests and makes it impossible to restart the Fort Frances mill […]
Sam Odrowski Dairy Queen employee Nancy Armstrong showed off one of the many Blizzards that got sent out to local businesses last Thursday for Miracle Treat Day. DQ sold 838 Blizzards locally, raising a total of $4,950. All of the money from Blizzard sales that day will go to the […]
Ken Kellar Award-winning blues musician Suzie Vinnick wowed the crowd with her powerful vocals and deft guitar playing at Cornell Farms last Wednesday evening. Vinnick is a 10-time winner of the Maple Blues award, and has been nominated for a JUNO award three times. The next barn concert will feature […]
Sam Odrowski
A group of local women took to the streets last Thursday to empower nursing mothers and help them feel confident breastfeeding whenever their babies are hungry. More than a dozen ladies marched from the Fort Frances Public Library to the Rainy Lake Square while holding up a “World Breastfeeding Week” […]
Sam Odrowski A group of mothers strolled their babies along Scott Street on Thursday during a co-ordinated march for “World Breastfeeding Week.” The event was meant to raise awareness around the importance of breastfeeding and that mothers shouldn’t feel ashamed to feed their baby publicly.
Sam Odrowski
The Town of Fort Frances is calling on the province to revoke Resolute Forest Product’s Sustainable Forest License for the Crossroute Forest after discovering a document that prevents the local mill’s restart. “With multiple serious parties having expressed interest in reopening this mill and creating jobs for our community, we […]
Ken Kellar The students of Seven Generations Education Institute’s hairstyling program watched as Tyrone Choken, right, demonstrated how to trim a fade on model Braeden Beazley at the hairstyling classroom on King’s Highway on Monday. Choken is a barber at SAINT in Winnipeg. He began cutting hair following a workplace […]
Ken Kellar Ron Yellowega grabbed a burger from Manitoulin Transport’s Greg Kalesnikoff yesterday during Manitoulin’s customer appreciation charity BBQ. Visitors were invited to put their names into a draw for some prizes, and were able to buy a hotdog or hamburger lunch, with all proceeds from the food going to […]
Summer reporter
Marc Stuempfle
Marc Stuempfle
There are only a few weeks left of summer which mean “Backpacks for Kids” organizers are collecting school supplies to help local children get ready before they head back to school. “Backpacks for Kids” is a local non-profit group of volunteers which help families within the Rainy River District accommodate […]
Ken Kellar Gary Davies, the northwestern Ontario program director for the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC), speaks to the members of the Rainy Lake Conservancy (RLC) during their annual general meeting at La Place Rendez-Vous on Sunday.
