With the annual Terry Fox “Marathon of Hope” coming up here Sunday (Sept. 19), lead organizer Vanessa Hebert is hoping the event raises $15,000 for cancer research this time around. “We raised just over $10,000 last year. It would be nice to beat that,” noted the executive director of the […]
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For the 10th year in a row, giant pumpkins, along with a flock of cultivateurs and spectators, will terminate their annual migration at the big tent on Rainy River’s waterfront this Saturday (Sept. 18). Although this year’s cool growing conditions have not been conducive to production of the monsters the […]
Around 9:45 p.m. last Friday (Sept. 10), a man walked into an establishment on Atwood Avenue in Rainy River, carrying a knife and demanding to see the manager. The man was subdued by patrons and turned over to Rainy River OPP. The 34-year-old Rainy River resident was arrested and charged […]
While the number of head sold was up by more than 25 percent over last year, the prices farmers received for their yearlings Saturday at the Stratton sales barn were, for the most part, below their costs. Some 1,040 head were sold, with good yearlings fetching between 85-87¢/pounds and poor […]
Sons of Norway Vinland Lodge 1-193 will host a social-cultural meeting at Nylan Huset on Rainy Lake this Sunday (Sept. 19) at 2 p.m. Iron World storyteller Gloria Anderson Hegg will provide entertainment, and the lodge will be celebrating the heritage of Danes in our community with displays of artifacts […]
In the municipalities of Alberton and La Vallee, local school children and members of the “Get Outdoors” club have constructed and put out 34 “bluebird lines” over the last 11 years. Each line has 15-24 bird boxes, with club members monitoring them every summer and cleaning them out in the […]
Something has been smelling fishy lately in the North Arm of Rainy Lake and it’s not going to go away just yet. Over the past week, reports have been coming in about the absence of seagulls around Mine Centre while, at the same time, there has been a huge influx […]
The much-beleaguered cattle farmers in Rainy River District will have a friend and advocate in Ottawa, Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP Ken Boshcoff pledged Monday night in Alberton. Boshcoff, who is touring this end of the new riding until tomorrow, sat down with members of the Rainy River Cattlemen’s Association on […]
As the leaves change colour and summer turns to fall, now is the time of year when the Ministry of Natural Resources is showing a renewed concern over the possibility of human-caused fires in the bush. Recreational campfires often are left unattended and become forest fires when campers and hunters […]
The Township of Alberton has a big decision to make next week that will have consequences far beyond the term of the current council. Cory Jewell, chief of Alberton’s volunteer fire department, made a detailed pitch for a replacement for the township’s aging fire truck at Wednesday night’s council meeting. […]
A trophy deer illegally killed in the Dryden area last November will be available for public display after it has been mounted and officially scored. The first display opportunity will be given to the Dryden museum. Other agencies and institutions that can provide an appropriate setting also will get a […]
The Ontario government honoured 135 citizens in the Kenora-Rainy River Districts yesterday at the Ontario Volunteer Service Awards ceremony in Dryden. Among the volunteers honoured were 13 from Fort Frances, including: •Georges Blanc (Ontario Trillium Foundation—Northwestern Grant Review Team)—five years; •John Cousineau (Fort Frances Museum and Cultural Centre)—five years; •Delsie […]
