During a stop in Fort Frances yesterday, Thunder Bay MP Joe Comuzzi, minister of state (FedNor), announced FedNor has given $80,000 to the Rainy River Future Development Corp. to create future business and job opportunities as identified in the organization’s strategic plan. Serving the Fort Frances and Rainy River area, […]
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Rainy River District will lose an important figure in education this summer when John Madigan, the director of education for the Northwest Catholic District School Board, retires. Madigan came to the board three years ago from the Ottawa Valley, along with his wife, Fran. “We were in a position where […]
A local social housing program has become a bone of contention between the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and the Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board. The board received a letter from the ministry in early February, informing them they would be assuming administrative responsibility for the Fort Frances Native […]
For the first time ever, residents of Rainy River District will have the chance to vote Green in the next federal election. Mike Kemper, an aerial photographer and bush pilot who divides his time between his small farm in Miscampbell and a home in Remscheid, Germany, has announced he will […]
The last time Patricia Thompson saw her little sister, they were playing tea together with their mother at the little girl’s foster home in Fort Frances. Thompson didn’t know at the time that would be the last time she saw her youngest sibling, but she is determined to find her […]
A combination of creative teaching and federal funding has given a group of local students an opportunity to try their hands at engineering. The Grade 7-8 classes at J.W. Walker School (housed at Sixth Street School during renovations at their own school) last week unveiled their science projects, which turned […]
A new user fee schedule presented to the committee of the whole during a special meeting Monday afternoon will see a $200,000 increase in revenues to the 2004 budget shortfall of $2.8-million, treasurer Peggy Dupuis said afterwards. But as to what the revised fees—and any new ones—may mean to the […]
It sometimes seems to people in Borderland that we are ignored by the population and power centres down south. That can be as true in Minnesota as it is here in Ontario, but for one day last week, others were paying attention. Tremendous Entertainment, a production company based in Minneapolis, […]
Superintendent of Education Terry Ellwood will report on the Aboriginal Achievement Pilot Project during the Rainy River District School Board’s regular meeting tonight, which is being held in Atikokan. The Northern Ontario Education Leaders (N.O.E.L.)—made up of eight school boards in Northwestern Ontario—has secured funding from the Ministry of Education […]
The Kiwanis skate park project may be another step closer to becoming a reality this year after council agreed yesterday afternoon to forward an application for funding to the Trillium Foundation. Steve Maki, chair of the skate park committee, met with council and town management at a special committee of […]
Having just tallied up the funds late this morning, the Riverside Foundation for Health Care cleared more than $20,000 at its “chair”- ity auction and casino events here Saturday, making it more successful than last year’s fundraiser. “It was fun. We had a great time,” said Teresa Hazel, director for […]
Negotiations between Ontario community colleges and their teachers continue today as both sides work to avoid a strike, which is scheduled to begin at midnight tomorrow if a settlement isn’t reached. Some 8,600 teachers, counsellors, and librarians at all 24 community colleges across the province, including faculty at the Fort […]
