It doesn’t appear likely Nestor Falls’ request to merge with Chapple rather than Sioux NarrowsResidents in Nestor Falls and Sioux Narrows were presented with the first draft from a provincially-appointed commission last Thursday that still had them merging into one municipality. Nestor Falls residents had proposed the commission, headed by […]
District News
Emo Public Library has sailed into the new millennium with a new look and focus on its activities, Librarian/CEO Shirley Sheppard remarked. “We now have available Internet computers and computers available for letters, resumes, and much more ready for the public,” she noted. The library also has been successful in […]
Cellular phone service between Fort Frances and Atikokan should be up and running as early as June after provincial funding finally came through. And service could be extended all the way to Thunder Bay by the end of the year. After being granted $1.75 million by the Northern Ontario Heritage […]
Some 64 students at Donald Young School in Emo took part in a poster contest with the message, “Raise Values Above Violence.” “We had a very good response,” noted Brigette Schulzki, adding the three judges from St. Patrick’s CWL had a hard time choosing the winners. “I wish we could […]
For 14 years, Doug Pearson has had five days off a week. He lives in a house he built himself, with a basement he dug by hand. He grounds his own wheat, and travels everywhere by bike. “It’s kind of like the back to the earth movement from the ’50s […]
Science isn’t something that interests me a great deal but when I walked into the first Crossroads science fair last Wednesday afternoon, I was absolutely amazed at the projects. Students in grades four-eight had entered the science fair, which meant about 125 projects that had to be viewed and judged. […]
By Beth Caldwell
Staff writer
Staff writer
When William John McLean travelled from Aberfoyle, Ont. in the mid-1890s to homestead 160 acres south of Devlin, his father, James, wrote to him doubting a life of farming would prove itself here. “From reading about the Rainy River District, I understand that a portion of the Rainy River Valley […]
The annual meeting of Zone ‘A’ of the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, hosted by the Ear Falls Hunters and Anglers club, attracted delegates from Fort Frances, Atikokan, Ignace, Dryden, Balmertown, Ear Falls, and two clubs from Kenora. The OFAH update noted that work is being done on: •how […]
The CEO of Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc. thoroughly outlined its plan for renovations at Emo hospital at a two-hour meeting last night that attracted about 135 residents. “I think it went over reasonably well,” said Wayne Woods. “People were looking for a meaning behind the renovations, and that’s what […]
The Northwestern Health Unit will look into setting up a needle exchange program for intravenous drug users here following a meeting with various local partners this week. While team leader Ken Allan stressed the proposal is “very early on in the process,” it was agreed the health unit should look […]
In the wake of learning they may be amalgamated with Sioux Narrows, Nestor Falls residents called an emergency meeting last night and passed a motion to propose a merger with Chapple instead. Earlier this month, the province had appointed a commission to study–and decide–what the best restructuring plan would be […]
The Northwestern Health Unit is still short of funds despite passing its budget Friday that called for a $1.37 per capita increase from area municipalities. The hike raises the cost per capita to $33 from $31.73 in 1999, which translates to $10,556 for Fort Frances–and about $70,000 across the Kenora/Rainy […]
