Melanie Mathieson of Fort Frances is in isolation for the next four-six weeks on the Acute Leukemic and Bone Marrow Transplant ward at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, counting on the people back home. She’s counting on area residents lining up to donate blood to the Canadian Blood Services, […]
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When hurricanes Charley, Frances, and Ivan roared through the Sunshine State over the past month, they left a path of destruction and death in their wakes. But they also left something else—opportunity. While millions of Americans abandoned the vulnerable coastlines and sought refuge inland, thousands of others tried to ride […]
As the pre-first ministers’ meeting on health began with aboriginal leaders for the first time being at the table, Prime Minister Paul Martin offered $700 million over the next five years towards aboriginal health issues. Treaty #3 Ogichidaa Arnold Gardner also is pleased to see there was consensus reached to […]
Once again, the students and staff of Crossroads School in Devlin will be ditching the books and donning their sneakers for the annual Terry Fox Run. Although most groups and organizations around the world will hold the annual fundraiser this Sunday (Sept. 19), Crossroads will be out on the road […]
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 […]
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 […]
