Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Now it’s football time as our Atlantis athletes warm up to a favourite occupation. Today their spectators recall the glories of past seasons and know that nothing beats the charge that follows the first snap of the pigskin. That hockey will follow is another verity in this land of the […]
Statistics report that the most read part of the newspaper is the headlines, followed by the comics. I’ve read both of those for years. But now, I’m also an avid fan of the crossword puzzles. What got me started was the conversation about crossword puzzles in my water aerobics class. […]
This is the week I pause to reflect on what could have been, and the benefits I should have derived from all my education, but I’m almost bereft of words. If this seems stupid, so it should. In dear old Atlantis again this week, we hustle our youngsters out the […]
Mr. Jim Bosma is back home here after a short stay at La Verendrye. Their daughter, Margaret of Thunder Bay, stayed with her mother while Jim was hospitalized. We wish you better health, Jim. Barbara Viehbeck of Thunder Bay, son, Davis, and daughter, Sarah, visited here recently. They motored to […]
It was 30 years ago when we built our house. At first, we were situated in a wheat field with no trees. But still, we had a wonderful view of a neighbor’s orchard that blossomed in the spring, and behind the orchard was a picturesque old barn. We loved it. […]
Born to Bill Witherspoon and Amanda Ward, of Devlin, Ont., a baby boy, Cooper Bryan, weighing 7 lbs. 6 oz. on August 23, 2001 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
Ray Frederick, 72 years old, passed away from lung cancer on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2001. He was born in Fort Frances, Ont., and came to Sudbury in 1958 to play hockey for the Senior Sudbury Wolves and to work for Northern Ontario Natural Gas. Ray was a “goal tender” and […]
Janet McFarland, writing in the Globe and Mail on Monday said it all: “Rural Canada may need to drive itself on to the Net’s fast lane.” Although the Federal government has mandated that every Canadian will have high speed Internet available by 2004, no roll out schedule exists in Northern […]
