This past weekend was a busy one across Sunset Country for anglers competing in fishing tournaments as four were taking place. LaBelle’s Birch Point Camp on Rainy Lake hosted a one-day bass tournament on Saturday, and there was a two-day musky tournament in Nestor Falls, a two-day bass tournament at […]
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Brightly-flashing neon signs could not have illuminated any better the choice facing American voters in the Nov. 8 election that was on display Monday night during the first presidential debate. Hillary Clinton, the former First Lady and Secretary of State who is the Democrats’ nominee for president, was poised and […]
Sadly, the family announces the passing of Phyllis Angus, 93, of Emo, Ont., and formerly of Chapple Township, Ont., on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016 at the Emo Health Centre with her family by her side. Phyllis was born Dec. 14, 1922 in Solsgirth, Man. to Algernon and Lily Judson. She […]
Janice Marie (Bird) Cullen quietly and courageously joined her parents and grandparents on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016 after a long-time battle with Scleroderma. Jan was born April 2, 1951 to Ernest and Beatrice (Yerxa) Bird in Fort Frances, Ont. Jan and her brother, Greg’s, parents had parted ways when they […]
Heino Edwin August (Ed) Kivimaki passed away peacefully in his home, surrounded by family, on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016. He was born April 21, 1939 in Fort Frances, Ont. to August (Gus) and Helvi Kivimaki. Ed is survived by his partner, Vivian Callaghan; son, Kelvin (Kim) of North Bay, Ont. […]
Bill Fostey, 86, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016 at Rainycrest Long-Term Care in Fort Frances. He was born Oct. 11, 1929 in Fort Frances to John and Annie Fostey. As a young man, Bill joined the local paper mill, working there for more than 42 […]
I checked the weather forecast Monday morning–in hopes of a warm, dry week–and it looks like we will have decent temperatures until the weekend. So enjoy this week and spend as much time as possible out in the sun. Nice days in the fall seem hard to beat. I’m hoping […]
Just about anyone who enjoys fishing has a “bucket list” of places where they would love to wet a line if they ever got the chance. For me, there are several high-end bass fishing lakes that have been on my list and then a few special places (usually remote) that […]
Back on April 1, 1985, we wrote on the front page of the Rainy River Record that as owners, we intended to keep separate the publications of the Fort Frances Times and Rainy River Record. “We hope to aid in the growth of business, educational, and cultural activities in the […]
I’d like to discuss this aging thing with you, if you don’t mind. For those of you not engaged in the process of deterioration, I suggest you quit reading right this minute and wander off to find something else to do. For the rest of you, I pose this question: […]
Canada is being applauded on the world stage for accepting almost 31,000 Syrian refugees since the end of last year. And in fact, Immigration minister John McCallum, attending a conference on refugees at the United Nations in New York City, said more than a dozen countries around the world are […]
