Staff Rainy River District OPP reported that Kristen Bruce-Morrison was safely located in Fort Frances shortly after 10 p.m. on Saturday. Police first reported her missing Friday morning. At that time, she had been last seen late Wednesday morning at the United Native Friendship Centre (school) on Portage Avenue in […]
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the OPP Fort Frances OPP is investigating the report of a missing female youth from Watten Township. An investigation revealed that Kristen Bruce-Morrison, 15, was last seen on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. at the United Native Friendship Centre (school) on Portage Avenue in Fort Frances. Bruce-Morrison has not attended her […]
Robin McCormick Congratulations to Lois Shine, who was honoured as Senior of the Year during the annual Devlin/La Vallee Christmas dinner on Sunday (Dec. 12). Although I don’t have all the details of the many things Lois does for both the Devlin community centre and Emo Legion, I do know […]
Dave Ogilvie
The Emo chapter of the first-annual “Stuff a Cruiser” campaign in Rainy River District, an event created to help area charities and food banks meet the needs of the less-fortunate during the holiday season, was deemed extremely successful. On Saturday (Dec. 11), shoppers and visitors to Emo stuffed the cruiser […]
Peggy Revell The Rainy Lake Tribal Development Corp. hit what it hopes will be one of many milestones as it was presented with its very first dividend cheque Friday. “Today we’re here to accept a dividend cheque that’s coming from Rainy Lake Tribal Contracting, one of our first economic development […]
Peggy Revell Ontario’s Education Quality and Accountability Office has given a nod to Sturgeon Creek School and the Sturgeon Creek Alternative Program by presenting them with the Dr. Bette Stephenson Recognition of Achievement. “It was a pleasant surprise because I know how hard our teachers work, and how our school […]
There’s a 20 percent chance of snow tonight, with an overnight low of minus-24 C (11 below zero F) that will feel more like minus-28 to minus-34 (20-30 below) with the wind chill. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy and cold, with a high of just minus-16 (three) and low around […]
Staff Gold exploration in the district marked another milestone this morning as the Fort Frances Chiefs Secretariat, Lac Des Mille Lacs First Nation, and Osisko Hammond Reef Gold Ltd. signed a resource-sharing agreement at a ceremony at La Place Rendez-Vous here. “This is an important and significant next step in […]
Dave Ogilvie The first-annual ‘Stuff a Cruiser” campaign locally, an event created to help area charities and food banks meet the needs of the less fortunate during the holiday season, will be collecting items in Emo this week. There’s going to be a police vehicle parked at Cloverleaf Grocery this […]
Dave Ogilvie In these days of corporate collapses and bank failures, it is the small home-grown businesses that successfully are finding their niche in the local economy of many Canadian towns. Such is the case for “Injunuity,” a family-run business that made a big impact during Emo’s annual “Holly Daze” […]
Robin McCormick The Emo Ministerial Association presents “A Simple Christmas”—a time to hear the Christmas story and sing some favourite carols—this Sunday at 3 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church. A free-will offering will be collected, with the funds to be split between Tyler Romyn and Mathew Beacham. • • • […]
Dan Falloon It isn’t much, but Rainy River District is home to the province’s first stretch of open snowmobile trails for the 2010-11 season. A five-mile stretch from Emo to the Highway 11/71 junction opened Monday. “It’s finished and groomed and open right now,” said Borderland Snowmobile Club president Dave […]
