“It was a perfect sale!” That was the best way Rainy River Cattlemen’s Association president Tom Morrish could describe the calf sale last weekend in Stratton. Some 1,070 head moved through the sales barn and left for new homes as far away as South Dakota. “Prices were very good,” said […]
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The Thunder Bay research station is slated to close at the end of the month but the Northwestern Ontario Associated Chambers of Commerce is committed to working with the province to keep it open and also preserve the one in Emo. Delegates passed a resolution in support of the Thunder […]
A second dead horse in Rainy River District is being tested for the West Nile virus, Dr. Chris Cannon of the Nor-West Animal Clinic here confirmed Tuesday night. “We got the results back [Tuesday] and it’s not rabies, so we’ll have to test for the West Nile virus now,” he […]
Just hours after the Northwestern Health Unit here said there’s been no more cases of the West Nile virus in the area, another crow was confirmed to have the disease late Thursday afternoon. The bird was collected by environmental staff in Dryden and submitted for laboratory analysis on Sept. 12. […]
The organizer of the eighth-annual Rainy River Valley Giant Pumpkin Festival is predicting great things during the weigh-in this Saturday at Hannam Park. “With the flooding, [pumpkin growing] got off to a slow start,” noted Eltjo Wiersema. “Some got washed out in the flooding and they had to restart them, […]
The province has announced $32.5 million in additional funding to improve ambulance response times, with the local Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board to get more than $500,000 of those funds. While welcomed, the additional funding won’t solve all issues with providing ambulance services in this area. “It was […]
Emo’s proposed biomass site has received support from most of its neighbouring municipalities, as well as funding from FedNor. Emo Reeve Russ Fortier met Andy Mitchell, secretary of state for rural development and FedNor, during the recent Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference in Toronto to discuss the project and […]
Canadian Blood Services returns to Fort Frances this week with a two-day mobile blood donor clinic at Fort Frances High School. Slated tomorrow (Sept. 25) from 4:30-8:30 p.m. and again Thursday (Sept. 26) from noon-3 p.m. and 5-8:30 p.m., CBS expects more than 435 donors will attend. “We’re very excited […]
Five youths reported missing from the Young Star House near Emo on Monday all were located by police before sundown, the OPP reported today. “Everybody’s back under control and safe,” said Fort Frances OPP S/Sgt. Hugh Dennis. The five youths—all female—were reported missing from the group home around noon Monday, […]
Water worries at Our Lady of the Way School in Stratton, and possible changes to the education funding formula, were debated at the regular monthly meeting of the Northwest Catholic District School Board on Saturday. “The board is doing everything they possibly can and this week [coming] the work will […]
FORT FRANCES—The Riverside Foundation for Health Care board of directors won’t see any new faces on it in the next year as no election has been slated for its annual meeting this coming Tuesday. “Our board is staying the same,” Foundation director Teresa Hazel said. “We have four members whose […]
The eighth-annual Rainy River Valley Giant Pumpkin Festival is set for Saturday, Sept. 28 at Hannam Park in Rainy River. Who will go home with the coveted “most attractive pumpkin” prize? Certainly not Alberton reeve and pumpkin aficionado John Milling. “Mine just developed a crack in it,” he said, with […]
