As part of a final push to raise money for the “Community Chest” as its charity for the year, local Safeway employees are holding a fundraiser walk this coming Sunday (Aug. 25). While all the details are in place, organizers still are working hard to drum up interest in […]
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With the annual Terry Fox Run coming up here Sept. 15, Pharmasave staff for a second year in a row are challenging any other business or organization to a fundraising showdown. Sabrina “Lightning” Stoessinger, Pharmasave employee and organizer of the “challenge campaign,” said Friday that staff there “would like to […]
Pither’s Point, which had been declared “unsafe for swimming” Aug. 9 due to a high bacterial count in the water, was reopened over the weekend after two consecutive test results came back “clean” to the Northwestern Health Unit. Further samples taken from Sand Bay last Tuesday and Wednesday were sent […]
Kenora OPP is investigating an accident which killed four people around 7 a.m. today on the Trans-Canada Highway about five km east of the Highway 71 junction. A fifth person was taken to Lake of the Woods District Hospital in Kenora, police said. The accident involved a transport truck and […]
Quiet forest fire activity in Fort Frances District has allowed the local Ministry of Natural Resources office to deploy more FireRanger crews to fight blazes in southwest Oregon. “We’ll be sending two additional fire crews and one more technician to the ‘Sour Biscuit’ fire Saturday,” said Matt Myers, the MNR’s […]
In a second such incident this week, a local resident was charged with failing to install a smoke alarm after a small house fire Wednesday evening. The Fort Frances Fire Department responded to a report of smoke billowing from the front part of a house on the 600 block of […]
With a few more participants ready to paddle down Rainy River for a good cause, the second-annual canoeing fundraiser for the local United Native Friendship Centre’s youth centre is set to go Monday. “We actually had people call about it [since the article in last Thursday’s Daily Bulletin],” said co-organizer […]
Town council received an update on the downtown parking dilemma at Monday night’s regular meeting and is certain to hear some proposals in the near future, according to a report from Planning and Development executive committee secretary Rick Hallam. Following a meeting July 22 at which town council looked at […]
Statuesque and secretive, she sat silently as her life was recounted to an eager crowd. The mysteries of the Rainy Lake mermaid were revealed last Thursday night during an art show in her honour at the Fort Frances Museum, where, among other things, listeners learned she wasn’t as old as […]
There’s relief locally that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service offered an extension to Canadian students last Friday that will allow them to cross the border to attend part-time classes in the United States. “I see it as encouraging,” said Carol Grim, director of Public Information and Development at Rainy […]
Area native groups will gather in Kenora this coming Monday at 1 p.m. for a rally and march to “speak out against the federal government’s Governance Act.” ”It’s a collection of the Grand Council Treaty #3 and Nishnawbe Aski Nation to speak out,” noted facilitator Joanne Bruyere. “They say there’s […]
Summer is not just a time for boating, fishing, and sun tanning. For some in the community, it is a time of need. “This summer has been typically low,” said Capt. Eric Alcock of the local Salvation Army. “We don’t get a lot of donations in the summer months.” The […]
