From the OPP The OPP is supporting International Safer Internet Day and cyber safety awareness by encouraging young people and their families to T.H.I.N.K b4 U Send to ensure their safety in the online world. International Safer Internet Day is Feb. 9. It was created to promote safer and more […]
District News
From the OPP On Feb. 4 around at 12:50 p.m., Rainy River District OPP officers received a complaint of a possible impaired driver on Highway 11 east of Fort Frances. Officers located the motor vehicle within the Town of Fort Frances. The driver, a 31-year-old Thunder Bay man, was showing […]
Staff Voting is underway for the 20th-annual Rainy River District Business Awards. Visit www.fortfranceschamber.com to vote for the most deserving businesses and individuals from more than 35 nominees in nine different categories. The online voting process will run until this Sunday (Feb. 7) at 11:59 p.m., with awards to be […]
Heather Latter A project to build a new classroom wing at Donald Young School in Emo has been re-tendered. “We tendered an original package for the construction of the new classroom wing and when it closed the end of September, beginning of October, it came in over budget,” noted Travis […]
Heather Latter With the Northwest Catholic District School Board receiving an estimated $11.9 million for the construction of a new school to consolidate St. Michael’s and St. Francis Schools here, Grade 5 students at St. Francis had some ideas about what they’d like to see in it. They also had […]
Heather Latter The charitable dinner for the local Alzheimer Society on Saturday night at La Place Rendez-Vous was a success—bringing in almost $3,000 that will be used locally to help people affected by the disease and their families. “It was a really fun evening,” enthused executive director Rossana Tomashowski. She […]
Duane Hicks Rainy River First Nations is the most recent Grand Council Treaty #3 community to undertake “Project Green Light”—an initiative to prevent violence against women, men, children, elders, and co-workers. The community celebrated the project last Thursday with an event at the RRFN gymnasium, which was attended by community […]
Staff J.W. Walker School will receive the Rainy River District School Board’s “Recognition of Excellence” at its regular meeting tonight for a number of initiatives used to increase “student voice.” “Increasing ‘student voice,’ and ensuring the students recognize that not only are their voices heard but they are acted upon, […]
From the OPP The OPP has been receiving an increasing number of complaints from local bus drivers and concerned citizens regarding vehicles not stopping for school buses that are stopped with their overhead red signal-lights flashing. There also are complaints about drivers failing to wait until pedestrians fully cross at […]
From the OPP Shortly after 3 a.m. yesterday, Rainy River District OPP officers were notified of an motor vehicle in the ditch on Highway 11 about 20 km east of Atikokan. Officers later located the vehicle near Highway 11 and 11B in the Township of Atikokan. The driver, a 50-year-old […]
Heather Latter An array of performers took to the stage last Thursday evening during a fundraising talent show that kicked off the 2016 season of the Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts. “The talent show went very well,” enthused Festival committee chair David Schwartz. “I was very happy […]
Heather Latter With a deal unable to be reached by mediation between the Rainy River District School Board and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (District 5B) last week, the local teachers’ union is asking for more respect from the board. “They always make mention in their [press] releases about […]
