Things are not healthy in Rainy River District and they’re not getting any better, Alberton council learned last Wednesday. Emo Reeve Russ Fortier, the district’s municipal rep on the Northwestern Health Unit’s board, briefed councillors on the health unit’s regular monthly meeting held May 19. He said the general state […]
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When Rachel Ravwerda and Andrea Dykhoorn signed up to plant trees for eight weeks in Northwestern Ontario, little did they know what they were getting themselves into. The pair hail from Chatham, Ont.—the breadbasket of southern Ontario. Both have worked on farms before and thought they were prepared for what […]
The people of Iraq may be on the brink of reclaiming power in their country, but the role of the United States military is not yet over. In just a few months, Fort Frances native Rebecca Beck (nee McEvoy) and her American husband, Sean, will be leaving to do their […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is advising travellers entering the United States at the border here to consider crossing elsewhere for the next few weeks due to delays caused by construction. In a press release issued late Tuesday, the agency reported that from “now until mid-July, construction crews will force […]
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 […]
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 […]
