A local First Nations organization is working to create more allyship in the fight for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). Mandi Olson of the Binesiwag Centre for Wellness in Couchiching delivered a presentation to town council during Monday night’s meeting where she spoke about how indigenous females […]
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Ken Kellar Rainy River District Trapper Council president Brian Love worked on his otter skin during the trapper workshop put on by the council at the Métis Hall on Saturday. Visitors to the workshop were able to learn more about trapping as a trade, watch experienced trappers at work, or […]
Above, community partners and supporters kicked off the Coldest Day of the Year awareness walk put on by the Fort Frances Homeless Committee and Northwest Community Legal Clinic on Thursday afternoon. Below, Fort Frances mayor June Caul did the work for two people as she pulled along her grandson in […]
Sam Odrowski
Without a case worker or assessment, a four month old native girl was involuntarily removed from her family by Fort Frances Catholic Children’s Aid in the late 60s Renee Linklater, now 50, who’s a member of Rainy River First Nations (RRFN), is one of the roughly 22,000 Indigenous people who […]
Participants in the Coldest Day of the Year awareness walk were invited to watch a screening of “US & Them,” a Canadian documentary on homelessness, after lunch was finished at the Out of the Cold Warming Centre on Thursday. The documentary follows filmmaker Krista Loughton as she develops friendships with, […]
Ken Kellar
While there weren’t quite as many people out as was hoped for, Saturday still marked another successful venture for the Rainy River District Trappers Council. The Council held their second spring trapper workshop, since resurrecting the idea in 2019, at the Metis Hall in Fort Frances. Council president Brian Love […]
St. Patrick School principal Jessica Veenbaas, left, Rainy River District EMS paramedic Kirt Pfeifer and North Star Community school vice-principal Carly Skrenski showed off some of the warm toques that have been donated to the schools in Atikokan as part of an initiative undertaken by Safe Communities Rainy River District. […]
Family Day is almost here. Time to pack up the kids, and have some fun together throughout the Rainy River District. This year, the holiday lands on Monday, Feb. 17, and a variety of local groups have been busy organizing events and activities. On the calendar this year are: The […]
Ken Kellar Aidan Smith, left, and his dad Joe of International Falls watched as local trapper Trevor Mills did some delicate work around a weasel scent gland during the trappers workshop put on by the Rainy River District Trappers Council at the Metis Hall on Saturday. Visitors to the event […]
Ken Kellar Jim Rognerud, 78, of International Falls demonstrated his skill, honed by years of experience, as he took a beaver from whole animal, left photo, to nearly finished skin during the workshop put on by the Rainy River District Trapper Council on Saturday. Rognerud has been trapping for 60 […]
Robin McCormick
The Emo Legion Branch 99 is hosting a Daytona 500 event this Sunday, Feb. 16 at the Legion. Come out and enjoy the famous Daytona race on a big screen TV. Doors open at 2 p.m. with the race starting at 2:30 p.m. The bar and kitchen will both be […]
Jack Elliott
Special to the Times
Special to the Times
The centre-piece of Rainy River’s Winter Festival will be the Rick Bourre Memorial Ice Fishing Derby on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. Rick Bourre, a long time resident of Rainy, was an extremely dedicated volunteer. Particularly at the arena and curling rinks, where his mechanical genius kept the ice plants and […]
