Kim Jo BlissSubmitted by The first cattle sale of the season for the Rainy River Cattlemen’s Association was very successful on Saturday. We sold 1,338 head (and one horse) for $1,616,042.45 at the sales barn in Stratton. This included cull cows (cows that no longer are producing), cull bulls, yearlings […]
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Joey Payeur A motion recently was carried by the Township of La Vallee council that helped put young ball players back in motion. “Without council, this wouldn’t have happened,” township administrative assistant Leeann Galusha said about the revival of a junior T-ball and softball program in Devlin, which is set […]
Look for light snow at times tonight, with an overnight low dropping to minus-seven C (19 F). Tomorrow will see another one-three cm (about an inch) of snow, with a high of just minus-one (30) and low around minus-six (21). The snowfall then is expected to intensify into a storm […]
Nicholas Donaldson Emo businesses welcomed spring with their annual “Spring Fever Days” celebration last week. Running Thursday to Saturday, the event drew crowds to Emo for sales, activities, fundraisers, raffles, food, and fun. Local businesses were on display all weekend, with the Nestor Falls Marine boat show in the Emo […]
Kiera KowalskiSummer reporter After more than 70 years of providing quality entertainment from across the globe in Borderland, the Border Concert Association is pulling the plug. The Scott Woods Band will grace the stage in the last performance of the series next Friday (May 5) at the Backus Auditorium in […]
Vocal Division (Wednesday, April 19) •Vocal Chorus and Vocal Ensembles, Own choice, Open–1. Fort Frances Youth Ensemble (First Class Honours) •Classroom Choruses, Own Choice, Grade 1 (English)–1. Robert Moore School Early Learning Class, Director: Mrs. Burns, Accompanist: Mrs. Cain (Honours) •Massed School Choir, Own Choice, All Grades (English)–1. Robert Moore […]
From the OPP Yesterday at 2:30 a.m., the Rainy River District OPP received a complaint about a motor vehicle in Fort Frances. Officers then conducted a traffic stop on the 900 block of King’s Highway. The driver, a 24-year-old Fort Frances man, was arrested and taken to OPP detachment for […]
Vocal Division (Tuesday, April 18) •Solo, Secular, 6 years and under–1. Cassandra Armstrong (First Class Honours) •Solo, Secular, 10 years and under–1. Piper Lidkea (Honours) •Solo, Secular, 12 years and under–1. Joelle Bruyere (Honours) •Solo, Canadian Composer, 10 years and under–1. Piper Lidkea (First Class Honours) 2. Taryn Oster (Honours) […]
Nicholas Donaldson “Canada’s Greatest Explorer” is gearing up for another adventure. Fort Frances native Josh Henry will be travelling with a group to northern Thailand, near the Burmese border, from May 28-June 10 as part of his “GiveBack GiveAway” project. The group will be helping an under-developed school by building […]
Press Release The Citizens for Backus/AB are honoured to accept a grant of $4,800 from the Northland Foundation of Duluth, Mn. The funding will be used towards programs at Backus that provide food access to International Falls and surrounding communities. The two programs receiving the funding are the Community Café […]
Nicholas Donaldson The Fort Frances Lions Club recently got an equipment upgrade from Shaw Cable to improve its weekly TV Bingo broadcast. Club member Bonnie Penney said they called with some problems and Shaw came within two weeks to do the upgrade. “They worked the entire day,” she noted. Lions’ […]
