New Gold tour guide, Cassandra Cochrane, answered many questions regarding New Gold’s mining operations, safety protocols, and environmental efforts during a public tour last Thursday afternoon. -Sam Odrowski photo
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Dear editor, I must apologize. When the United Church came out as affirming of LQBTQ people, I was caught up in the whirlwind of pushback by several local churches as only a very young adult could be. Taught that standing against homosexuality was making a stand for the Gospel of […]
The EARS hops project demonstration plot features hundreds of feet of hops that are strung along several poles.
Well over 50 people has a chance to hop on a bus from Emo to the New Gold Mine and take a tour there last Thursday. Tour attendees had a chance to view New Gold’s open pit mine and ask questions to one of New Gold’s mining engineers. The tours […]
Staff It was time for a pair of new faces to shine at the Emo Speedway on Saturday night. Tyler Brown and Aaron Blacklance both nabbed their first checkered flags of the Borderland Racing Association season in the WISSOTA Modifieds and Midwest Modifieds divisions. Brown, from Rainy River, earned his […]
From the MNRF A Missouri man has been fined $5,500 for hunting offences under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act. Gregory Evans of Crane pleaded guilty and was fined $2,500 for abandoning a black bear and allowing its flesh to spoil, $2,000 for hunting black bear without a licence, and […]
Sam Odrowski The Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU) recently received funding from the Moffat Foundation to launch a “Fort Frances Youth Project,” with the end goal of setting up a youth centre in town. The NWHU is working with local youth, the Town of Fort Frances, Kiwanis Club, First Responders, the […]
Summer reporterStephanie Hagenaars A new workshop offered through the Fort Frances “Best Start” hub is teaching parents positive discipline choices and to understand what is normal behaviour for ages zero- to six-years-old. The Children See Children Learn workshop was developed by the Best Start Resource Centre, a program of Health […]
New Gold’s open pit mine is 100 metres deep and approximately 240 feet above sea level. The loader trucks transports roughly 600 loads of rocks to the processing plant each day at approximately 220 metric tons per load. -Sam Odrowski photos
Growing up Northwest Ontario is pretty awesome if you like to fish because of all the great waters that we have just outside our doors. I grew up in Kenora but up until a few years ago I had never really fished on the Winnipeg River, mostly because I was […]
All my daughters are with me in Nova Scotia for a lovely family reunion visit. Of course, now it is in the past tense, because Thea had to return to Alberta after a much too brief a visit. My four grandchildren are here with their mommies and I am in […]
I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about some new family benefits that have been introduced by the federal government recently. Two years ago, the Government of Canada launched the Canada Child Benefit to help families with the high cost of raising children. The CCB, which is targeted at […]
