It is with great sorrow that the family of Ronald Arthur Olson announces his passing, with family at his side, in the early morning of Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015. Ron was born on May 22, 1938 in Rainy River, Ont. to Arthur and Thelma. As a young man, he worked […]
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With great sadness and sorrow, the family of Donna Hurd (nee Morgan) announces her passing on Thursday, Sept. 3 2015 at Riverside Health Care in Fort Frances Ont. With a soft and gentle whisper, her Lord called her name and she was welcomed into the loving arms of Jesus. With […]
The 11th-annual International Falls Bass Championship took place this past weekend and it was the father-son team of Travis and Jace Peterson who bested the full 60-team field after two days of fishing on the Rainy River and the U.S. side of Rainy Lake. Since the second year of this […]
The last sunset of August hovers on the horizon as I write this. If you really want to know how fast time flies, watch the sun set. In the time it takes to realize how beautiful the purple-hued light is, reach for the camera, and turn back to the beauty, […]
Wow! Last day of August—where did our summer go? My students were finished at EARS on Friday and I find that such a sad time. I spend more time with my students that anyone else and I as much as I am happy for them to return to school and […]
We have grown older. Our children have married beautiful women who do not appreciate the rustic cabin life, and now we are creating an indoor washroom at the cottage. It probably has been long-imagined and began when my father purchased a Sun-Mar composting toilet in the early 1990s which he […]
From the Stewardship Youth Rangers
Our eighth and final week as Stewardship Youth Rangers in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry summer program was a whirlwind of activity! We spent another day with Brian Love of the Rainy River District Trappers Association in Mine Centre building 18 pine marten nesting boxes. We learned more […]
Have you tuned in to a relatively new program on CBC Radio One hosted by Lisa Charleyboy? It is called New Fire and it is an excellent program that is intended to bring you “to the surprising heart of the conversations important to Aboriginal youth.” Catch it on Tuesday morning […]
Canada was in a technical recession for the first six months of this year. However, in the month of June, the economy grew, beginning to pull the Canadian economy out of recession. It was the government, under the Conservatives, which passed legislation that said two consecutive quarters of negative growth […]
Brenda McPhersonLana Smith Dear Mr. Editor, Please allow the opportunity to acknowledge Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day across the Rainy River District and surrounding area. International FASD Awareness Day is observed annually on the ninth day of the ninth month to remember that during the nine months of […]
