the MNRF At the time of this report yesterday, six new fires had been confirmed in the Northwest Region. These fires—located in the far north of the Nipigon and Sioux Lookout districts—range in size from 0.1 to 60 hectares. Nineteen new fires were reported on Saturday, including eight in Sioux […]
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the MNRF One new fire was confirmed in Kenora District as of yesterday, although more fire reports were being investigated. Kenora Fire #31 is located in the Maynard Lake area, about 85 km northeast of Kenora. It currently is listed as “being held” at 0.2 hectares in size. FireRangers are […]
Staff Couchiching’s 22nd-annual traditional pow-wow, scheduled for this weekend, has been postponed. “It is going to be rescheduled because we have had another death in the community,” a spokesperson at the band office noted. It was the second death there this week. “As much as we wanted to continue on […]
Emily Gedde By this time next year, guests may be settling into rooms at a new hotel located along Rainy River. Shawn Mason, International Falls Economic Development Authority director, announced Monday that BriMark Builders LLC will begin the public process of working with local zoning and planning commissions to develop […]
the MNRF Three new fires were confirmed by yesterday afternoon in the Northwest Region—and more reports were coming in. The new fires were in Woodland Caribou Park in Red Lake District. There currently are 16 active fires in the region. Most of these are “being monitored,” and those fires with […]
Staff About 600 Fort Frances Power Corp. customers in the east end of town experienced a brief power interruption yesterday afternoon when a switch failed on a pole near Rose Manor. The outage occurred at 3:55 p.m. and lasted for less than 10 minutes for most customers. The exception were […]
Heather Latter Robert Moore School students will be involved—in a small way—in the upcoming Pan Am Games (July 10-26) and Parapan Am Game (Aug. 7-15) being held in Toronto. Some 100 students, including some Grade 1, 3, 4, 6, and 7 classes, were able to send their well wishes to […]
Cameron Penney When Fort Frances High School’s Class of 2015 heads off to pursue their post-secondary education this fall, many of those students won’t be far apart. Several have chosen to attend institutions close to home, such as Confederation College in Thunder Bay or the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. […]
Lindsay Campbell Forty-four students graduated from Confederation College’s Rainy River District campus last Wednesday, including many who have overcome struggles. “This [graduation] represents a significant crossroad for our students,” said college president Jim Madder. He noted the graduating class at the local campus is unique in that a number of […]
Lindsay Campbell The Boundary Waters Dragon Boat Club is gearing up for its fourth-annual festival here on Saturday, June 27. Club president Jennifer Greenhalgh said the turnout of paddlers has picked up since the first practice, but she still is hoping for more entries. “We’ve been practising since the second […]
Heather Latter A member of Rainy River First Nations is seeing success with his company’s patented special bed sheets. Adrian Campbell said he and his wife invented “Rip n Go” because of the hassle of changing the sheets in their baby daughter’s crib every time her diaper leaked. “I remember […]
the OPP Kenora OPP received a report of a motor-vehicle collision involving a westbound tractor-trailer unit and an eastbound mini-van on Highway 17 in Bridges Township just before 5:30 p.m. on Sunday. Krysten Norris, 25, of Dryden, the driver of the mini-van, was pronounced dead at the scene. The female […]
