District News

Canadian Tenor Ken Lavigne has hit the road with a new show. “Three Knights with a Tenor,” an admittedly cheeky title, features the music of Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lavigne has returned to northern Ontario with six shows. He opened in Kirkland Lake […]

Farm Credit Canada is hosting its annual “Drive Away Hunger” campaign in the district tomorrow (Oct. 4) to assist the one million Canadians who rely on food banks each month. Those looking to donate are asked to bring food or cash to Cloverleaf in Emo where BDO Fort Frances staff […]

The dates have been set for the performances of this year’s Christmas choraliers. Choir director Diane Maxey announced last week that the choir, which traditionally has sung a Christmas cantata, would instead be performing a collection of Christmas anthems this year. Now, Maxey has nailed down when each of the […]

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) announced yesterday that they would begin a full withdrawal of service–strike action–across the province on Monday (Oct. 7), unless progress is made at the central bargaining table. At this time, the Rainy River District School Board (RRDSB) is confirming details of the strike […]

Kenora will be the future home of a brand new kind of justice. Kenora-Rainy River MPP Greg Rickford was joined by Ontario attorney general Doug Downey in Kenora on Thursday, where they announced a Kenora Justice Centre that is meant to address the over-representation of Indigenous people in the local […]

Times’ feature writer Rick Neilson recently attended the 50th birthday celebration held for Kim Jo Bliss. Part of Rick’s article appeared in the Focus on Farming piece published last week as space allowed. What follows is a series of additional comments made by and about Kim Jo by many of […]

The Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre (FFPLTC) continues to be a busy, interactive, ever-changing community hub. This past summer saw a change in our staff as people moved on in new directions in their lives. As a result, we are pleased to welcome and introduce our new staff members. […]

With the upcoming closure of the Fort Frances Daycare Centre, the Fort Frances Senior Centre board of management is exploring the possibility of relocating to that facility. At the Senior Fair on June 6, we took the opportunity to survey the participants. A total of 78 people responded. We asked […]

Bill and Peggy Johnson, Richard Byrnes, George Glowasky and Tanis Williamson of Fort Frances were among the Rainy River District Mutual Aid Association cash calendar draw for the week of Sept. 22-28. Also winning $30 for that week were Rob Armstrong (Pinewood), Ted Menzie (Thunder Bay), and Roger Tremblay (Schreiber). […]

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is asking area residents to be aware of bears in the Fort Frances area and to take the necessary steps to avoid attracting bears into local neighbourhoods. In the past few weeks, people in the Idylwild Drive, Reef Point Road and Rocky Inlet […]

If you looked out your window or were our for a walk in Emo on the evening of Sept. 17, you would of seen that front street was filled with flashing lights, multiple fire trucks and many firefighters running around. There was a scheduled live training exercise involving the volunteer […]

A fire destroyed two roofed in pens at the Stratton sales barn on Monday afternoon but the sale is still set to run this Saturday (Sept. 28). “We’re still proceeding at this point we just have to scale it back,” said longtime sales barn volunteer and Rainy River Cattlemen’s Association […]