Chances are, the paper on which you are reading this was once a tree in Northwestern Ontario. That may not be surprising, but that tree didn’t just happen to be there. This year, forestry giant Abitibi-Consolidated is in the process of planting four million trees in an area between Atikokan […]
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Our Lady of the Way School was as busy as a bee-hive last Wednesday. OPP Cst. Greg Johnson was listening to essays written by students in the Grade 5/6 class as part of the Drug Awareness and Resistance Education (D.AR.E.) program. Several students made presentations that Cst. Johnson thought were […]
Sixteen seniors on hand for the weekly Wheels to Meals program last Thursday at the Emo Legion enjoyed some heart-warming musical entertainment. The trio included Chapple Reeve Bill Clink (electric bass guitar), Glen Hart (banjo), and Ramona Smith (accordion). Good music is sweet music to the ear, keeping the mind, […]
Carole Mackintosh of Fort Frances was the lucky winner of $100 a week for a year in the draw held by the Friends of the Emo/La Vallee Community Centre. Sandie Drennan presented the money on Friday afternoon in the council chambers at the Emo municipal office. Proceeds from this fundraiser […]
According to principal Lucinda Meyers, everything went without a hitch at Donald Young School’s clean-up day. Special thanks go out to Patty and Paige McNally, Frances, Casey, and Ian Grant, Elaine and Jimmy Mack, John Laplante, Stephen and Sarah Hillier, Natasha and Chad VanWallenghem, Harold McQuaker, Sherri and Kyle Hay, […]
When Alberton Central School first opened its doors in 1961, its first principal was an extraordinary women whose influence eventually would extend far beyond the little country school she administered. Shirley Wickstrom (then Stewart) proved to be not only an able administrator, she also broke new ground in the curriculum […]
The Nature Conservancies of Canada and Minnesota have teamed up with the Rainy Lake Conservancy to make sure nobody tries to pave our paradise and put up a parking lot. The first Nature Conservancy of Canada Northwestern Ontario field office is set to open on Scott Street here sometime in […]
Voyageur Panel, the oriented strandboard (OSB) manufacturing plant in Barwick, is now known as Ainsworth Barwick. As well, there has been a change of management at the mill. “We’ll have a new manager coming in shortly and we have an interim manager, whose name is Mark Cunningham,” Catherine Ainsworth, COO […]
Thanks to the recent rains, and cooler than normal temperatures, the fire hazard currently is “low” in every district of the West Fire Region, the Ministry of Natural Resources reported yesterday. “It isn’t so much we’ve received copious amounts of rain. There’s just been a cycle of weather that’s really […]
While the federal election campaign has heated up between the three main party leaders, the local candidates are managing to remain calm and civil—even in debate. Last Wednesday’s all-candidates’ debate at the Civic Centre here drew a crowd of only about 20 people, most of them involved with the campaign […]
They came from far and wide, from past and present—students, teachers, principals, and parents. Like salmon drawn inexorably to ancestral rivers to spawn, more than 200 people came back one last time to a place that for many is full of special memories. Last Thursday, Alberton Central School in Crozier […]
For the second time in less than a week, Canada apparently has won another round in the longstanding softwood lumber trade dispute with the United States. A North American Free Trade Agreement panel ruled yesterday that the U.S. Commerce Department must review its subsidy calculations on Canadian lumber imports, which […]
