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. […]
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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 […]
“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 […]
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, […]
