The “Summer Sleuth” reading program at the Emo Public Library is running through to Aug. 16 and co-ordinator Christine Schulzki said 60 children are registered. Children received free posters, stickers, and activity books to help put the fun of reading into their summer. For Schulzki, it also involves creating a […]
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New research is showing a product used to control cattle bloat in Australia and New Zealand for more than 20 years could allow safe grazing of alfalfa in North America. That would allow gains from grazing almost equal to feedlot levels. According to a Lethbridge Research Station release, in recent […]
Sincere sympathy is extended to Don McTavish and his children as they go through the extreme hardship of losing their wife and mother, Shannon. Shannon suffered a long bout of illness before her passing last week. I’ll always remember Shannon for the wonderful sewing. I remember her children always had […]
A canoe race open to all entrants and old-style hay threshing are among the many activities scheduled for the third-annual “Chapple Days” in Barwick on Aug. 10-11. “I think there’s probably something for every age there,” noted organizer Rilla Race. “We try to gear it to families.” The events will […]
Starting in August, the Rainy River District School Board no longer will have bus drivers as board employees, instead employing strictly contract drivers. Darlene Ferniuk, the board’s communications and transportation co-ordinator, said Tuesday the decision was made due to the high cost of maintaining the buses, or in her words, […]
Beavers which had built a dam flooding a trail in Caliper Lake Provincial Park near Nestor Falls have been successfully “baffled” by members of the Fort Frances Sportsmen’s Club’s junior conservationists. On Saturday morning, the groups, their guides, and a park employee hiked 1.5 km into the bush with their […]
Richard Bellamy, who is the first to admit he enjoys doing “oddball things,” is gaining a reputation as one of Rainy River District’s more colourful characters. Inside his trailer, workshop, and dotting his yard along Highway 11/71 just west of Devlin are a number of machines and inventions he spends […]
The Barwick and Morley Park beaches remain closed due to high levels of bacteria after being declared “unsafe for swimming” last Thursday. “The second set of samples came back bad,” said Bill Limerick, environmental health team leader with the Northwestern Health Unit. The beaches will remain closed until two consecutive […]
With one final antic–a tree-planter putting in his last 20 trees in the nude–another season of tree-planting has ended for Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. Altogether this year, Abitibi has had roughly 5.5 million trees planted in the district’s forests by hand, and as much as double that by aerial seeding. As required […]
A new $500,000 abattoir hopefully will draw even stronger support after the Rainy River Future Development Corp. promotes it at a booth during the Emo Fair next month. The decision was made during a meeting Monday evening in Stratton, where the RRFDC and district cattlemen further discussed the project. “We […]
In this remote community that has been called the suicide capital of the world, another young person has fallen prey to the “devil of suicide.” Family, friends, and community members buried 15-year-old Cynthia Keeper yesterday in the backyard of her family home, as is the custom here, a simple wooden […]
A tournament in honour of Kitchen Creek Golf and Country Club’s 75th-anniversary attracted 132 members for a humid afternoon of fun and prizes Thursday. Club pro Steve Wood outlined the tourney with the “modified Stablesford point system,” where points are awarded according to each team member’s result at a hole. […]
