Local News from Across the Rainy River District
We kicked off this summer in Fort Frances with some very exciting announcements about FedNor funding for the region. FedNor is a funding program from the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development whose purpose is to promote economic development and job creation in Northern Ontario. This year, Fort Frances […]
By Gary Sliworsky Ag and rural rep, Emo During the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis of 2003, farmers embraced swath grazing—and it likely saved some of them from bankruptcy because it dramatically reduced winter feeding costs. Today, about 22 percent of Prairie cattle producers use swath grazing for winter feeding. […]
“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” So said Thomas Mann, a German writer who, in 1929, won a Nobel Prize in Literature for his thoughts; those thoughts he recorded on paper. I am just such a coward, it would seem. And when the war I […]
After a week of some of the worst fishing I’ve ever seen in my life down in Alabama, it was nice to be back at home in Northwestern Ontario to go fishing over the past week. I was on the water a bunch, with a couple of guide trips, a […]
Despite progress reportedly being made over the summer, the current labour dispute between the Rainy River District School Board and the local Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation threatens to carry into the new school year. In fact, with the teachers having opted to withdraw from providing extra-curricular activities as of […]
Diane Maxey Dear editor: Usually I’m not much of a complainer but the other day upon leaving the Walmart parking lot, I observed the height of laziness! It was around 6:15 p.m. so there were very few cars parked. To my utter amazement, however, there were 32 carts scattered within […]
Shirley Geil, 90, passed away on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016 in Santa Rosa, Calif. She was born in Fort Frances, Ont. in 1925, a daughter of Howard and Mabel Wees. She grew up in Fort Frances, spending her summers at the family cabin on Rainy Lake, fishing and swimming, and […]
Albert Hogue, 103, passed away Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016 at his home at Rainycrest Long-Term Care in Fort Frances, Ont. Albert was born on June 30, 1913 in Bluff Creek, Man. He left the family farm in Silver Ridge, Man. to work in Ontario, where he met and married Aline […]
Eila Ellen Martin (nee Sammalisto) passed away peacefully on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016 at the Riverside health care facility in Emo, Ont. Eila was born in Tarmola, Ont., near Thunder Bay, on May 4, 1924. There she attended the SS #3 Gorham School. In later years, her family moved to […]
Carl Joseph Perreault, 82, of St. Helens, Ore., passed away Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016 in his home in St. Helens. He was born June 7, 1934 in Fort Frances, Ont. to Amos and Laura Perreault. His wife, Jane, whom he was with for 57 years, passed away in June, 2015. […]
