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 […]
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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 […]
International Falls city council has approved placing three councillors on a committee to work with city and county arts and recreation organizations to locate sources of funding. Couns. Gail Rognerud, Terry Carrew, and Shawn Mason were appointed to the committee at last week’s city council meeting. City officials said the […]
A new and exciting event is coming to Clover Valley Farmers’ Market tomorrow (June 5)! For the first time, the market will be hosting an auction. Starting at 10 a.m., a consignment auction will be launched by Karl VanHeyst Auctions. Nearly 300 items are consigned, most by members of the […]
A timber company that harvested part of a provincial park has been ordered to restore the area, including planting 1,000-1,500 trees. Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. pleaded guilty to harvesting one hectare of Eagle Dogtooth Provincial Park, a new park east of Rushing River Provincial Park, about 25 km southeast of Kenora. Instead […]
