“I like to try to have something different. If you have more of a variety for people, they’re better off, and you’re better off.” That’s the policy Vanessa Hebert has held since she opened “Weeza’s Gifts Etc.” in Emo on Jan. 2., offering everything from candles to figurines to miniature […]
District News
Rainy River regained its snowmobile bylaw when town council held a special meeting Monday morning to pass a revamped one. The new bylaw (#1381-01) prohibits the driving of motorized snow vehicles (snowmobiles) on sidewalks or pathways specifically designated for pedestrians. It also changes the areas in Rainy River that snowmobiles […]
Ken Haw officially has been sworn in as the fourth council member for Morley Township–and a fifth and final member also has indicated he will sign on. “Somebody had to do it and I thought I’d be an asset,” said Haw, a cattle farmer who has lived in Rainy River […]
Alberton Reeve John Milling is struggling to govern a municipality in an identity crisis. “That’s all an area that I don’t really understand,” Reeve Milling admitted. “I get a sense from citizens who say that they absolutely don’t want to be a part of Fort Frances but, at the same […]
With its members here working without a contract since September, the local Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario and Rainy River District School Board will begin negotiations early next month. Local ETFO president Gary Gamsby said last week a proposal has been prepared but noted it won’t be submitted to the […]
With the hugely successful “Care Close to Home” fundraising campaign set to wrap up next month, the Riverside Foundation for Health Care is determined to keep the momentum going in 2001. “Riverside is excited about our future,” Foundation chair Jim Krag said during a press conference here Monday to officially […]
Lakehead University student Tracie McIntosh is looking forward to beginning her two-year study into researching the effects of relocation on the Cameron Lake elk this spring. “I have already been up to the job site to check things out,” McIntosh said Friday from Thunder Bay. “Everything looks really good and […]
With the ice-fishing season running full tilt, communities literally have popped up on area lakes–including the annual influx on Gordie’s Road at Sabaskong Bay (Lake of the Woods). “Crappie fishing has been good for the guys that fish. Of course, last week we had the cold spell and they weren’t […]
The Emo Toy Lending and Resource Centre is going to make January look like “Winter in Wonderland” with various crafts planned for the children all month. Fun in the Kitchen is planned Wednesday, Jan. 17 from 4-5 p.m. Meanwhile, a sliding party is planned Thursday, Jan. 18 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. […]
After almost six weeks of not being able to drink well water, students and staff at the Sturgeon Creek Annex in Stratton soon should be able to do so again. But this time, the problem wasn’t bacteria. “They pumped the well dry while flooding the rink. And things get agitated […]
The following is an interesting article I came across by Betsy Freese, livestock editor for “Successful Farming.” What will a farmer look like in the year 2020? Hans-Wilhelm Windhorst gives us this portrait. Windhorst is an economist and professor of rural development at the University of Vechta in Germany. He […]
As many people know, Mine Centre School has a shared reading program, in which students in grades one through six read to one another for half-an-hour every Friday. They have become known not just for reading books but for challenging principals and bus drivers to both fun–and gross–things. This year, […]
