The Emo Beef Club had its first meeting Wednesday, May 9 at the research station in Emo. It was attended by 11 kids–some new to the beef club and some veterans. An election of officers took place and then we discussed options on how to go about this year’s club. […]
District News
Rainy Lake is still rising and Monday at 338.09 m (1,109.21 ft.), it’s now likely to pass the 1996 high of 338.1 m (1,109.25 ft.). Monday morning’s lake level is an increase of 3.5 cm (1.4 in.) since yesterday, with in-flows to the lake still very high from the weekend’s […]
NDP leader and local MPP Howard Hampton is asking the minister of Northern Development and Mines to become actively involved in finding a positive and successful resolution to the problems at the Abitibi-Consolidated paper mill in Kenora. Hampton had met with Dan Newman a week ago to raise the issues […]
Recently I wrote about the importance of strategic planning for northern municipalities and DSSABs (the new governance bodies for unorganized areas). Unless we make plans locally, higher levels of government will make them for us. They are farther away, and will impose general solutions that often don’t suite diverse situations. […]
Between 700-800 hungry mouths lined up for a free meal at the annual Rainy River First Nation’s fish fry Friday at the Manitou Mounds. More than 400 pounds of walleye and sturgeon were cooked by volunteers and served under the big tent, along with pasta salads, bannock, potatoes, and other […]
Stewart and Alice Kellar celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary at the Emo Legion recently with relatives, friends, and neighbours on hand to wish the couple the best of health and many more years of happy life together. Both were pinned with white rose boutonnieres and seated. The centre of their […]
The research station just west of Emo is in full swing these days. Seeding has been going on for a number of weeks, with Kim-Jo Bliss heading the staff of three employed there. Bliss also wishes to remind people of the 2001 Rainy River Valley beautification competition. “This competition is […]
This past week, Leslie Barr-Kellar, behaviour co-ordinator for the Rainy River District School Board, presented a bullying workshop at Donald Young School for parents and other community members. Topics covered included the board’s “Safe School” policy, violence prevention curriculum instruction, strategies for students being promoted at the school level. This […]
They say Canadians spend hours talking about our weather conditions–it is any wonder? Where else can you pick lilacs, cut rhubarb, and be slapped in the face with snow while you’re doing it! • • • The first week of Devlin slo-pitch schedule has been played and here are the results: Monday […]
At the Wheels to Meals gathering at the Emo Legion last Thursday, Emo councillors were on hand to challenge the seniors to carpet bowling. It was a humorous contest the first time around, Reeve Russ Fortier said. “We had a field day,” he noted, adding the seniors let them win […]
Coffee Break, the ladies’ Bible group at the Christian Reformed Church in Emo, held their season wind-up with a Day of Joy gathering for women at the church sanctuary and fellowship hall. Guest speaker for the occasion was Ellen Pukalo, a city gal married to a farmer near Beausejour, Man. […]
Heidi Friesen (Sturgeon Creek Alternative Program) and Matt McQuaker (Sturgeon Creek) have left Kingston after representing Northwestern Ontario in a national science fair there. The two district students joined two others from Dryden at the science fair, which featured hundreds of projects from coast to coast. While neither came away […]
