Duane Hicks With Christmas only a little over a month away, the deadline to return shoebox gift packages as part of “Operation Christmas Child” is next week (Nov. 24-29). Volunteer Evelyn Rawn, who has been spreading word of the campaign along with Linda Weir at local churches and schools to […]
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Paige Desmond With the goal of developing a stronger north, the first of 10 roundtable discussions was held Nov. 7 in Thunder Bay to address the topic of health care-related development. The roundtables are a result of Ontario’s “Places to Grow Act”—legislation enacted in 2005 with the goal of developing […]
Press Release The Rainy River Future Development Corp. and TBayTel are proud to announce the Highway 11/71 corridor and Rainy River District soon will be benefiting from the addition of five new broadband and cellular towers, as well as upgrades to the 10 existing ones. Twelve towers will be receiving […]
Paige Desmond After a combined total of 36,110.5 km, participants in the Northwestern Health Unit’s “Workplace Wellness Challenge” have completed their task. Rainycrest won the challenge with each of its participants achieving an average of more than 10,000 steps per day (as measured by the pedometers distributed to participants for […]
Duane Hicks The local Community Control Group (CCG) sprang into action this morning as part of Emergency Management Ontario’s “Trillium Response 2008” after a simulated “ice storm” declared by Environment Canada earlier this week escalated into a critical situation. The CCG, including members of police, fire, and ambulance services, town […]
Peggy Revell Fort Frances will be one of two sites in Canada where a pilot project that links aboriginal high school students with mentorships in accounting firms will be launched. “The thrust of it is that, hopefully, more of aboriginal students will decide that they want to go into the […]
Duane Hicks With the goal still being to put the project out to tender in January, with construction to start in April, the building committee turned over its final report on the new Fort Frances Public Library and Technology Centre to the library board on Friday. Board chair Joyce Cunningham […]
Peggy Revell “Flimsy” and “absurd” are some of the words local resident David Kircher is using to describe the Rainy River District School Board’s answers following his presentation to the board earlier this month over the hundreds of thousands of dollars that went missing from Fort Frances High School over […]
Peggy Revell District residents once again can help make the holidays a brighter time for children in need as the “Adopt an Angel” campaign is underway for another year. “This is our sixth year running the ‘Adopt an Angel’ program,” noted Jacquee Loerzel of Family & Children’s Services in Fort […]
Paige Desmond Shift work is a necessary part of business. Health care, resource industries, policing, and other services require a 24-hour schedule. According to Statistics Canada, in 2005 roughly 28 percent, or 4.1 million of the 14.6 million Canadians employed, worked something other than a typical day shift of 9 […]
Peggy Revell There’s been a big turnout for the Northwestern Health Unit’s public ’flu shot clinics so far. Of the three walk-in clinics held by the health unit in Fort Frances, more than 300 people attended the one at Robert Moore School while close to 300 were at the one […]
Paige Desmond It’s the time of year when everyone feels a little bit more generous—and a little more concerned about others. And thanks to the Gideon Bible Society Auxiliary, women staying at the Atikokan Crisis Centre will have a little something extra come Christmas. Last week, Thea Kaemingh of Devlin […]
