The Stratton recreation grounds may look more like a forest in several years if Moe and Joyce Henry have anything to say about it. Come spring, the couple will be looking to plant up to nine varieties of trees there as part of a “memorial tree” project, in which Stratton […]
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With his trick-roping, horseback-riding, target-shooting, and guitar-strumming, Eric Brandrick could well be the closest Rainy River District has to a cowboy. “Yeah, he’s our old cowboy. He sings and plays guitar and everything,” said Joyce Young, owner of Trail’s End Riding Stable north of Devlin. Living on a piece of […]
The province’s proposal to merge Nestor Falls and Sioux Narrows is a sign the government’s amalgamation picture is a big one, increasing the pressure on other municipalities to find a local solution. “The way I feel about it is that it’s a different situation. They don’t have any organization to […]
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 […]
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 […]
