While still short on volunteers, organizers of the Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts say they may have just enough support to keep it going for another year. “At this point, the festival probably will go ahead,” John Jankiewicz, president of the Rainy River District Music Festival Association, […]
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Gordon Burnell lived in Finland for the last 32 years of his life and his sister thought what better way to remember him than by making a sign for the local cemetery. “It was in memory of my brother who passed away five years ago in September,” Fran Faragher said […]
If you think public libraries are only about books, you can file that thought under fiction. They’re at the forefront of the digital communications age. That’s what Ontario Public Library Week 2002 is all about, said Shirley Sheppard, head librarian at the Emo Public Library, adding public libraries are committed […]
Operators of the Thunder Bay research station had hoped for good news this Thanksgiving, but it appears it still will close at the end of the month as previously announced. Gord Scheifele, research co-ordinator for Northwestern Ontario and crop technology advisor at the Thunder Bay research station, said yesterday that […]
The arts community may lose its biggest showcase with organizers warning the annual Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts may not go ahead this year. “There is a serious chance the festival won’t go next year if we don’t get more help,” stressed John Jankiewicz, president of the […]
A former Devlin resident made her royal debut last week when she accompanied a champion race horse to meet the Queen in Toronto. Sherry McLean, now the assistant farm manager at Gardiner Farms near Toronto, escorted 1995 Queen’s Plate winner “Regal Discovery” to the Festival of Ontario last Wednesday night. […]
Numerous traffic accidents, most caused by icy road conditions, closed the Trans-Canada Highway between Highway 71 and Vermilion Bay on Sunday, Kenora OPP reported. Some 20 tractor-trailer units jackknifed and blocked the highway completely, police said, with tow trucks and cranes attending the scene. None of these accidents resulted in […]
Local MP Robert Nault is hosting a tourist information forum in Dryden tomorrow (Oct. 16) at 7 p.m. at the Best Western Hotel. On hand to participate will be federal Citizenship and Immigration minister Denis Coderre, who will be speaking as well as answering questions related to immigration and its […]
Ministry of Public Safety and Security officials will be in the area next week in another step to determine whether Couchiching First Nation will land a youth jail down the road. “It’s very encouraging they’re coming to look at the site that’s been chosen for the facility,” Fort Frances Mayor […]
The Emo Toy Library and Resource Centre welcomed its new co-ordinator, Jennifer (Jen) Miedema, replacing Josette Vargas, who has secured employment elsewhere. April Siemens is her assistant. “October means Hallowe’en,” said Miedema, adding they will be having parties for all of the children. The Playgroup party will be held Oct. […]
“We had a lovely surprise anniversary party arranged by our children,” said Shirley Brown of Barwick. A come-and-go tea was held at the Chapple Community Hall to mark their 35th anniversary, and the couple wants to say thanks to all their family and friends for the wonderful cards received and […]
Test results for a second horse in the district thought to have succumbed to the West Nile virus came back positive late Friday. “I wanted to know there was nothing I could have done. I wanted to know for sure,” said Faye Flatt, the owner of the Arabian horse which […]
