Local News from Across the Rainy River District
How can you help someone who is struggling with being trafficked? It’s a difficult question, Jessica Wilson at Binesiwag Center for Wellness (BCW) says. Everyone needs different things, and people really have to be ready to change for things to work. There are many factors that can alter what can […]
By Robin McCormick Devlin Correspondent Sylvia Beadle Will turn 90 this Friday, November 5. Notice I didn’t say 90 year old as old is the farthest thing you would use to describe Sylvia. Ninety years young is more appropriate. Sylvia was honoured with a nineteenth birthday party at the Devlin […]
Riverside Foundation for Health Care is excited to announce that the winner of the October Riverside 50/50 electronic raffle is Thomas Nachuk of Thunder Bay, ON with the winning ticket number M-7012799. Nachuk takes home $14,430, with the same amount going to the Foundation. The draw was made Friday, October […]
If you’ve checked your mail box lately, you may have noticed an envelope from Picture This. Riverside Foundation for Health Care and the Picture This cabinet committee launched the direct mailing campaign for Picture This in late September and it has been hitting residential and business mailboxes across the district […]
On October 26, Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung (Manitou Mounds) hosted a deer skinning workshop. Pictured is Haley Broadbent (Blue sweater) and Cheryl Morrison (Red jacket). Instructor Pat Hyatt says it is important to do these kinds workshops so that traditional indigenous ways of life can be remembered and stay in use. The deer […]
Following a successful first outing, the team at Lake of the Woods Brewery are at it again, sinking thousands of bottles of beer beneath Lake of the Woods to provide beer drinkers with another one-of-a-kind experience. In 2020 the Kenora-based brewery came up with their Deep 6 line of beer, […]
All the good little boils and ghouls were out and about on Halloween night, making the most of the chilly fall weather. Scores of trick-or-treaters descended upon the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre for the Trunk-or-Treat festivities that took place from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Individuals, businesses and […]
The Fort Frances Senior Centre is looking for a few volunteers to work on a casual basis covering for someone when they cannot come in. Please call Cindy at 807-271-2021. The Fort Frances Lakers are looking for billet families and a billet coordinator, to provide a home away from home […]
Police briefs (FORT FRANCES, ON) – Over the night of October 26, 2021 and into the early hours of October 27, 2021 in the areas of Victoria Avenue North and Christie Avenue North in Fort Frances, Ontario some person(s) entered multiple vehicles and stole multiple items. Of concern, the person(s) stole […]
We all like to grouse about taxes. “What are they blowing money on that for? Spend! Spend! Spend! What are they ripping up that road for? Didn’t they just fix that watermain last winter?” Sound familiar? Well take a look at this water pipe and consider. That is not a […]
An 83-year-old tragedy is still fresh in the minds of those fundraising to preserve a piece of history in the District. The town of Dance, about 30 km from Fort Frances, burned in a wildfire in 1938 and one of the few buildings rebuilt afterwards was the Dance Community Hall. […]
Grand Council Treaty #3 supported Naotkamegwanning Youth with a donation of skateboards in promotion of physical activity and empowering resilience in mental health. These new skateboards were directly provided to youth as part of the life promotion activities and on-going support that is currently underway – these youths can now […]
