The 200 and 300 blocks of Scott Street were lined with haystacks Saturday as many merchants there took their wares to the sidewalks and children bobbed for apples during the BIA’s inaugural “Harvest Festival.” While most businesses went all out, standing scarecrows on the sidewalk or offering games for kids, […]
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Donald Young School in Emo held its annual book display and sale last Thursday and Friday in the gymnasium. DYS librarian Marie-Ann DeGroot co-ordinated the program, which saw students browsing through all elements of the book display. Books are magic–they can ignite the imagination of children, especially in the lower […]
To the relief of many, the provincial government has decided several district communities that suffered varying degrees of damage and loss because of severe weather July 31 will receive disaster relief funding. As first reported in last Friday’s Daily Bulletin, Northern Development and Mines minister Dan Newman announced that eight […]
The Rainy River Cattlemen’s Association was holding a working bee Wednesday at the Stratton cattle barn in preparation for this Saturday’s calf sale. “It’s the cattlemen’s annual feeder sale,” noted RRCA president Tom Morrish. “It’ll be mostly calves, this spring’s calves,” he noted. “An educated guess would be around 1,200 […]
Last Thursday (Sept. 27), grade seven and eight students (and some in grade six) from Crossroads School, along with four adults, experienced firsthand what it’s like to be in a house when it’s full of smoke–and the smoke increases second by second. Devlin/La Vallee Fire Chief Leo Pruys arranged for […]
District farmers will have the chance to share their concerns for the future as the Agricultural Odyssey Group seeks grassroots input this Friday night in Stratton. The Odyssey–a coalition of Ontario’s major farm organizations and commodity groups–is sweeping across the province to examine issues in the agriculture industry here and […]
The Ministry of Natural Resources was scheduled to ignite an 800-hectare prescribed burn in the North Basswood Lake area of Quetico Park today. The fire aims to burn off heavy blowdown timber that remains in the park from a severe windstorm that passed through that area in 1999, the MNR […]
After 124 days on the picket lines, staff at the Fort Frances and District Association for Community Living will be back at work this week. ACL staff, all members of CUPE Local #65, voted 98 percent on Friday in favour of accepting a new contract. The deal, hammered out after […]
Dryden OPP have concluded their investigation into a fatal single-vehicle accident which occurred yesterday afternoon on Chaval Road in Sandford Township. John Brtko, 71, of Dryden, was the sole occupant of a Chevrolet pickup truck when his vehicle entered the south ditch and struck a tree, police said. A post-mortem […]
Two men were arrested and charged Thursday in Pinewood after the Tri-Force Drug Unit searched property there and found drugs. Police seized 18 mature marijuana plants, half-a-pound of dried marijuana, seven long guns, a crossbow, and a switchblade, as well as a quantity of cash. The potential street value of […]
After more than four months on the picket line, CUPE Local #65 workers at the Fort Frances and District Association for Community Living are optimistic their strike soon may be over. After negotiating with ACL administration behind closed doors at La Place Rendez-Vous for more than 15 hours from Tuesday […]
A 10-year hobby is beginning to put district duck carver Alan Anderson among the best in the country. Anderson, a life-long resident of Devlin, gradually is collecting ribbons for his carvings of decorative ducks and decoys. He’s been entering them in carving competitions across Canada and the U.S., with more […]
