Rainy River Community College has announced it will host “The Ultimate Road Trip: Campus2Career,” a free success presentation for first-year college students, next Monday (Aug. 28) at 10:45 a.m. at the RRCC Theater. The presentation will be delivered on campuses across the U.S. this fall to more than 350,000 students. […]
District News
Three men have been fined a total of $1,100 after pleading guilty to starting fires in separate incidents. They must also pay the Ministry of Natural Resources a total of $4,500—the cost of putting the fires out. Members of the public reported all three fires to either the MNR fire […]
Meet professional photographer Raymond Klass for an interactive evening program this Friday (Aug. 25) at Voyageurs National Park. Ray was selected as one of two artists in residence at Voyageurs National Park this year. Join us to see beautiful images taken in the park—and bring your camera for a little […]
FORT FRANCES—The local Catholic school board is facing a smaller deficit than originally expected for the 2006/07 school year, and will transfer funds from its reserves to cover the difference. Back in July, the board had predicted a $1.9 million shortfall due to declining enrolment and cuts to provincial grants. […]
Reigning Emo Fair queen Kayla Lauzon will pass along her crown tomorrow night to one of this year’s contestants—Brittany Galusha, Ashley Jewett, Samantha Loveday, or Alyssa Vanderaa. The crowning will follow the entertainment portion of the pageant, which gets underway at 7 p.m. upstairs at the Emo-La Vallee Community Centre. […]
BARWICK—After more than three months of research and fact-finding by the board of directors of the Rainy River District Regional Abattoir, the results were presented to members last Thursday night at the Barwick Community Centre. And with 34 votes cast, there was a unanimous decision to continue with the next […]
BARWICK—With many farmers on hand for the Rainy River District Regional Abattoir meeting in Barwick last week, the presidents of two local agriculture associations took the opportunity to speak to the group about the dry season. “We are looking for support to deem this an area of disaster based on […]
EMO—After an impressive showing at last year’s loggers’ competition, Gaston Godbout, at the age of 76, had hoped to return to the annual event at the Rainy River Valley Agricultural Society’s fall fair in Emo this year. But while he won’t be there in person, his spirit will live on […]
DRYDEN, Ont.—Three people have died in a traffic accident on the Trans-Canada Highway just east of Dryden—the second fatal crash in less than a week in the same area. The OPP said an eastbound car entered the westbound lane and struck two vehicles just before 11 a.m. yesterday. Two people […]
Cooler weather and some recent rainfall has enabled the forest fire management program in Northwestern Ontario to make excellent progress on extinguishing existing forest fires across the region. There currently are 46 active forest fires in Northwestern Ontario, covering 15,643 hectares, and firefighters are continuing with their work—hunting for hotspots […]
The forest fire management program in the northwest region is taking advantage of some cooler weather and rainfall to get more fires put out, as well as to give days off to some firefighters who have been working full out during the recent escalated fire situation. Services personnel remain busy […]
A Duluth teenager vacationing on Rainy Lake last week found more than fish on his line. Matt Gunderson, 18, caught an invasive species known as the spiny waterflea (Bythotrephes longimanus). More than a dozen collected on his fishing line on July 18 while he was trolling for walleyes off Blueberry […]
