The Northwestern Health Unit may end up taking legal action later this year as few district municipalities have responded to Dr. Pete Sarsfield’s request to implement bylaws banning smoking in enclosed public places before the end of May. “The response has been from across the spectrum. There’s only been one, […]
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Emo council is hosting a meeting on the issue of smoking in public places tomorrow (May 23) at 7 p.m. at the Emo-La Vallee Community Centre. Geoff Gillon, economic development officer for the Rainy River Future Development Corp.’s, will chair the meeting. For those who can’t make the meeting, signed […]
Like the recent Crozier Hall burn, Rainy River First Nations had quite a wait for the prescribed burn to take place at the Manitou Mounds. It finally went ahead last Tuesday (May 14). “We had to wait for the winds to die down,” said Martin Nantel, co-ordinator of the Rainy […]
Alberton Coun. Wayne McKay submitted his resignation, effective May 31, at a special meeting last Friday. Council accepted his resignation and will look for a replacement immediately. At the meeting, McKay indicated he’d been thinking about resigning for a long time, said Alberton Reeve John Milling. “He wanted to see […]
While they’ll be a little later than usual due to the late spring, forest tent caterpillars should be on the march here by the end of the month, Mark Breon, forest health technician with the Ministry of Natural Resources, warned Tuesday. But whether the infestation will be as bad as […]
The opening of walleye/sauger season in Ontario is this Saturday (May 18) but the action may be slow this year thanks to the lingering cold weather and subsequent delayed spawn. “Ice-out” on Rainy Lake occurred May 8, one week later than last year, and some local anglers and guides say […]
“I’m the arsonist.” That’s probably not the greeting one expects from an 82-year-old but former longtime Alberton resident Bud Cyr was joking and waxed nostalgia about the old hall which he was about to torch. “My first-ever memory at the hall was a Christmas concert, I was five or six […]
I could hear the happiness in Joe Bodnar’s voice as I talked to him Monday evening regarding the Mother’s Day fish fry that was held Sunday at the Devlin Hall. Almost 300 fish dinners were served during this event, which was a fundraiser for the Crossroads community rink project. Perhaps […]
Perhaps it was the sunny weather, an ideal location, or a combination of both, but Household Hazardous Waste Day 2002 already had yielded more returns than last year in just the first three hours here Saturday. “It went really well. We’re always a bit nervous, with the expense and wondering […]
A major portion of last Friday afternoon’s meeting of the Rainy River District Area Services Board working group was taken up with semantics—namely, does a vote for stage one of the proposal mean the working group has, in theory, agreed to form an ASB? Michael Lewis, the eastern region’s unincorporated […]
More than 100 delegates, volunteers, and residents attended sessions and a luncheon last Wednesday afternoon at the Emo/La Vallee Arena as part of the World Health Organization’s 11th International and 5th National Conference on Safe Communities. The arena was decorated with safety-themed posters by students from Donald Young School, toy […]
Sioux Lookout OPP, with assistance from the Canadian military, have disposed of a live hand grenade unearthed in the backyard of a Queen Street residence there Tuesday afternoon. Police originally were notified around 3 p.m. after the homeowner discovered the device in his backyard while rototilling his property. Police cordoned […]
