When Jackie Champagne said she wanted to open a gas bar and convenience store in Barwick, she said a lot of people laughed at her and told her it wouldn’t survive. But after one year of operation, Champagne and the “Roseberry Runway” are still around–and any critics have stopped laughing. […]
District News
District farmers will get a chance to offer their insights into Canada/U.S. relations to 30 students of the Advanced Agricultural Leadership Program who will be stopping here July 8-9. The visit is part of the program’s two-week North American study tour. Rainy River District became a stop partially due to […]
The Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board will hold its first official meeting in Fort Frances next Monday after legislation was passed giving it the power to administer child care, social housing, and “Ontario Works.” Mayor Glenn Witherspoon, who is president of the Rainy River District Municipal Association, noted […]
It was a day to renew friendships and catch up on old times. At least, that was how Grace Van Drunen described the Burriss centennial celebrations held Saturday. For Van Drunen, it’s not just history. It’s her life. She was born in a Burriss farmhouse 93 years ago this September […]
“Sharathon” preparations are beginning around KBHW, station manager Bruce Christopherson said, although they are still more than two months from their annual support event. First, KBHW will have to do a budget forecast for the next fiscal year and with that its “Sharathon” goal. “Although I know the goal will […]
Assabaska Ojibway Heritage Park/Lake of the Woods Provincial Park will undergo some significant changes in the next year as new ownership has been altering the way it looks and operates. A park was given to the Onegaming and Big Grassy First Nations as part of the settlement of the Assabaska […]
When Ed Tompkins first opened his store in Emo in 1898, he probably wasn’t thinking if it would still be standing 100 years later. But not only has Tompkins’ Hardware stayed in business for the past century, it’s grown over the decades to become a cornerstone in the Emo retail […]
“This is a site for our children, our children’s children, and their grandchildren . . . a place where they can learn and enjoy themselves,” said Big Island elder Joe Big George. And with those words, a ground-breaking ceremony for the new school at Big Grassy began last Thursday morning. […]
Marshal Jourdain won’t be alone in court in August when he faces a charge of keeping a common gaming house–he’s going in with the full support of Couchiching’s chief and council. Jourdain, 50, manager of the former Couchiching Bingo Palace, was charged last Wednesday following a joint investigation by the […]
Congratulations to the 23 graduates of Donald Young School in Emo, which held its graduation exercises last Friday (June 12) in the gymnasium. The graduating class included Vernon Allan, Erin Anderson, Nicole Daw, Kris Esselink, Anna-Lise DeGroot, Jessica Dyson, Katie Galusha, Melinda Hawkins, Jenna Kaemingh, Donald Kellar, Jonathon Kinnear, Tara […]
Principal Brian Love made an unusual dare with his Mine Centre students–and they made him face the music (or, rather, a minnow) last Wednesday. Love ate a live minnow more than six inches long last Wednesday after the grades one-six shared reading group there achieved its goal of reading 2,500 […]
After seven years of operating a Christian-oriented primary school in Fort Frances, the Emanuel Christian Academy is planning to offer a high school program starting in September, Pastor Steve Laing said. The school is based out of the Calvary Tabernacle at 308 Butler Ave., where 12 students presently are enrolled […]
