FORT FRANCES—With ongoing efforts to raise community awareness about local drug- and alcohol-related issues, members of Parents Against Illicit Narcotics (PAIN) have sought support from health professionals in the area. Local pharmacists, counsellors, and medical doctors joined in the group’s most recent monthly meeting last week to discuss treatments for […]
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FORT FRANCES—Youth from the Northern zone (Kenora, Dryden, Thunder Bay, Sioux Lookout, Atikokan, and Fort Frances) gathered here Monday to participate in the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies Youth Communication Advocacy Network conference. As just the second conference held in the area since YouthCAN’s establishment last year, the one-day […]
A Christmas Eve candlelight service is scheduled to be held at various cemeteries in the Devlin and Emo areas. “For us it’s a way of raising funds to do little things for the cemetery that normally wouldn’t be done,” noted Maxine Hayes, a member of the cemetery committee in La […]
Despite the cold and blowing snow Saturday afternoon (Dec. 1), people gathered at the Knox United Church hall in Emo for a candle-lighting service, “Remembering Those We Miss,” sponsored by the Rainy River District Palliative Care Volunteers. It was a way to acknowledge that though the sounds of celebration are […]
Emo’s annual “Holly Daze” celebration opened to a cold but happy crowd sipping hot chocolate and eating cookies on Friday while awaiting the start of the Christmas parade, which officially opened this year’s event. This year’s parade featured more than a dozen floats, including “The First Noel” from the St. […]
About 40 people gathered Monday evening at the Emo Legion to talk about the future of Emo and present ideas to improve the community. Prior to the meeting, the Township of Emo and Rainy River Future Development Corporation (RRFDC) sent out a survey asking the following questions of its residents: […]
FORT FRANCES—The Sunset Country Snowmobile Club is merging with other clubs from throughout the Rainy River District to better manage the resources available in the area. “We’re going to amalgamate,” said SCSC director Dave Hyatt. “It’s been passed, and Rainy River, Emo, Fort Frances, Mine Centre will all be under […]
On Friday around 9:13 a.m., a South Port, Man. resident received the district’s first seven-day administrative driver’s licence suspension. Rainy River OPP officers stopped a 200 Chevrolet Cavalier travelling at 150 km/h in a posted 90-km/h zone along Highway #11 in Chapple Township. As a result of legislation introduced earlier […]
At a ceremony Nov. 11 during the Canadian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion conference, Paul Kells, president and founder of Safe Communities Canada, presented the 2007 Safe Communities Canada Award of Excellence for Community Leadership to the Rainy River Valley Safety Coalition. Accepting the award was RRVSC chair Grace Silander. […]
At last night’s meeting of the Northwest Catholic District School Board, Our Lady of the Way School principal Brendan Hyatt and teacher Kevin Knutsen briefly discussed the Daily Physical Education program there, which recently earned them national recognition. Knutsen applied for the Recognition Award Program through the Canadian Association for […]
Canada Border Services Agency officers at the Pigeon River border crossing, south of Thunder Bay, seized almost six kilograms of marijuana during a vehicle inspection there Friday (Nov. 16). The drugs are valued at $119,934. Border Services officers discovered small quantities of hashish and marijuana during a vehicle search after […]
FORT FRANCES—Carissa Copenace is continuing to live up to her Anishinaabe name, “Nigaan-niga-bawik,” which means female leader, after being crowned Miss Manito Ahbee last week during “A Festival for All Nations” international competition pow-wow in Winnipeg. Months ago, the Fort Frances High School student and member of Rainy River First […]
