With the closure deadline looming, the head of the Thunder Bay agriculture research station is still hoping for a last-minute reprieve that will keep the doors open after Thursday. “Nothing has been changed,” said Gordon Scheifele, research co-ordinator for Northwestern Ontario and crop technology advisor at the Thunder Bay research […]
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Another boil-water advisory has been posted for Our Lady of the Way School in Stratton, and the local Catholic board is investigating where its new water quality system failed. “We’re still trying to get to the bottom of this,” Chris Howarth, superintendent of business for the Northwest Catholic District School […]
Members of the Rainy River OPP, in tandem with the Ministry of Natural Resources, inspected more than 50 vessels on the lower Rainy River on Oct. 12, resulting in charges against boaters, police announced this morning. The marine enforcement initiative saw vessels inspected from Stratton to Lake of the Woods, […]
How do rural communities meet their health care needs? A community rural health forum is slated to help answer this question tomorrow from 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. at La Place Rendez-Vous. The forum is one in a series of six rural health forums planned across the province to address specific issues […]
With a little more than a week before the Thunder Bay research station is slated for closure, the region’s agricultural community still is struggling to find a way to keep it open. “I’m still hopeful,” said Gordon Scheifele, research co-ordinator for Northwestern Ontario and crop technology advisor at the Thunder […]
The future of the French Immersion program here was weighed again at the Northwest Catholic District School Board’s regular monthly meeting Saturday in Sioux Lookout. “There was really no decision made on it. We actually intend to come back to the board with a full report on projections for the […]
With a little more than a week before the Thunder Bay research station is slated for closure, the region’s agricultural community still is struggling to find a way to keep it open. “I’m still hopeful,” said Gordon Scheifele, research co-ordinator for Northwestern Ontario and crop technology advisor at the Thunder […]
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, […]
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 […]
