The Wieringa family inaugurated their new riding shed with a horse clinic Saturday and Sunday that attracted 16 horses and about 60 people who gathered for the opportunity to learn from a pro. Peter Frost, a world-renowned show horse trainer, left his Minnesota home to spend the weekend at the […]
District News
The Fairway Store in Emo is closed for the time being to undergo renovations before it reopens under the Shop Easy franchise banner. Fairway, which was owned by Emo Reeve Brian Reid, officially was sold to the Loney family, owners of Cloverleaf Shop Easy Foods on Front Street, with the […]
The organizing committee of the sixth-annual Rainy River Valley Giant Pumpkin Festival, Northwestern Ontario’s pre-eminent pumpkin festival, is now planning the 2000 weigh-off. The festival again proved to be very popular in 1999, attracting many people from as far away as Thunder Bay to Hannam Park in Rainy River, where […]
Last Thursday evening (May 4), the Sturgeon Creek Alternative Program presented an Easter concert, entitled “Amazing Grace,” to help raise money for their building. The target is June 30 to make the final payment. Mark Mast spoke on the progress SCAP has made in raising the necessary funds through various […]
Donald Young School students and staff held their annual Spring Tea and Concert in the school gym, performing before an enthused audience of friends and relatives. With spring in the air and an array of music presented, Jocelyn Matheson and Robert Galloway introduced each item on the program, which included […]
Residents in the new Corporation of the Municipality of Sioux Narrows Nestor Falls have little choice but to work with the changes implemented on their community. When Sioux Narrows council requested a provincial commission to resolve a restructuring stalemate, even it was surprised by the size of the area included […]
To the applause of many, the Rainy River District School Board approved an employee assistance program to help deal with workplace stress during its regular meeting here Tuesday night. The service, provided through the Behavioural Sciences Centre of St. Joseph’s Care Group in Thunder Bay, will be implemented in September, […]
“I’m concerned about the watershed. I’m concerned about the creatures that live in it and the people who use it. I guess I see it as a living being–it’s all interconnected, interrelated.” The sentiments of Terry Kawulia, a local man who attended the inaugural ManOMin conference here last Friday and […]
Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc. is still waiting approval of its plans for renovations at the Emo hospital submitted in early April. “We’re hoping to get the letter from the ministry [of Long-Term Care] this week,” CEO Wayne Woods noted Tuesday. “Then we’ll be going out for tender as soon […]
Mentoring for teachers, use of math exemplars, and summer school are all strategies the Rainy River District School Board plans to use to improve math performance in grade 3/6 testing, assistant superintendent Betty Ann LaRocque told trustees at last night’s regular meeting here. After seeing grade six students score four […]
A special celebration was held last Wednesday and Thursday at Big Grassy First Nation to mark the long-awaited land claim settlement involving the bridge over the Big Grassy River. Festivities included a hoop dancer, a drum ceremony, outdoor activities, a fish fry, and fireworks. Community members also were honoured with […]
Students from the Sturgeon Creek Alternative Program in Stratton flagged down vehicles passing by Canadian Tire here Saturday for a fundraising car wash. Students from grades 10-12 raised more then $1,100 washing vehicles and selling baked goods to fund a week-long trip to Minneapolis. “We’re hoping to do some stuff […]
