The Dryden and District branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society is getting ready for its annual “Feast of Famine” fundraiser, which will be held in Fort Frances, Kenora, and Dryden next month. In Fort Frances and Kenora, “Feast or Famine” will take place from noon on Thursday, March 2 […]
District News
At its regular meeting last Tuesday night, Emo council highlighted and discussed the new handi-van, which was partially funded by the township as well as the municipalities of La Vallee, Chapple, and Morley. Three dollars per capita was provided by the four municipalities totalling $10,578, with a $45,000 grant from […]
With the goal to start construction in 2010, the library building committee is working hard on revising plans for a new Fort Frances Public Library. Library board chair Joyce Cunningham, who returned last week from the Ontario Library Association conference in Toronto along with head librarian Margaret Sedgwick, has been […]
Members of four local unions participated in an information picket in front of La Verendrye Hospital here Tuesday to protest the creation of Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) in Ontario. “We see them as an opening for privatization and competitive bidding,” said Danny Scheibli, a CUPE national rep for Northwestern […]
Kids once again will have something to play on at Pither’s Point Park after town council approved the purchase of new playground equipment there under the 2006 budget. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown noted in a report that the Operations and Facilities executive committee recommended one adult swing, one […]
Talks between local secondary school occasional teachers and the public school board broke off when they rejected the board’s latest contract offer of wage parity with their elementary counterparts. Union members provide qualified teachers to replace absent teachers on both a daily and long-term occasional basis in Fort Frances High […]
The OPP has suspended the search for 41-year-old Ear Falls resident Geoff McClain at the site where his truck was first located on Saturday. Since that time, an air, ground, and vessel search of the English River area, 13 km southwest of Ear Falls, has turned up nothing. OPP divers […]
“I was thinking a big purple llama would stand out on the highway,” chuckled Carol Inkster of Emo, referring to a possible sign for her new store, The Purple Llama, which is scheduled to open there March 1. But she isn’t going to purchase the purple llama sign until her […]
The Northwest Catholic District School Board should receive test results Wednesday (Feb. 8) that indicate whether a recently-detected “bug” in the water system at Our Lady of the Way School in Stratton has been eliminated. The “bug”—a bacterial species named pseudomonas aeruginosa—was growing in the water pipes downstream and hiding […]
Tying into the Academy Awards the following night, “Come As You or Come As A Star” is the theme of the Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s ninth-annual fundraising event coming up Saturday, March 4 at La Place Rendez-Vous. And the pre-Oscar party is shaping up to be an evening of […]
Don Anness spends nearly every morning at the Emo Speedway, but he doesn’t race stock cars. Rather, he’s into harness racing—and they practise even in the winter. “We hardly miss any time at all, unless it’s really cold,” Anness noted last Friday afternoon after a good training session that morning. […]
