When Pvt. Ray Martin of the Royal Canadian Legion Br. #29 stood in front of the cenotaph on Remembrance Day last year and, despite failing health, proudly saluted the war dead on behalf of the Korean Veterans’ Association, the emotion on his face was enough to make me cry. It […]
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Three delegates from Namibia, Africa will be arriving in Fort Frances tomorrow to get a firsthand look at Canadian municipal politics–not to mention a good portion of Rainy River District. Boniface Mutumba, Lukas Muhepa, and Ria Dippenaar of the Namibian Town Clerks Forum (NTCF) will be the town’s guests Nov. […]
In addition to dropping its NAFTA trade challenge over the border waters fishing dispute, Minnesota has agreed to reduce its catch limit for walleye/sauger on the Lake of the Woods. But limits on Minnesota’s side of Rainy Lake will remain the same. Dennis Stouffer, with the Minnesota Department of Natural […]
More than 40 people interested in starting up a small business, or getting advice on running the one they have, may have learned a thing or two after attending a seminar last Wednesday at La Place Rendez-Vous. Coinciding with Small Business Week (Oct. 26-30), the seminar was a joint effort […]
District teachers spent Monday learning to adjust to the new math curriculum in innovative ways during a workshop at La Place Rendez-Vous. In response to Ministry of Education-dictated changes in the math curriculum at the start of the school year, the Rainy River District School Board brought in Ruth Dawson–a […]
If Mary Martinson had to prick her finger one more time for a blood test, it probably would bring tears to her eyes. That’s because three times a day for seven straight days, she had been doing just that as part of her participation in the “Celebrity Challenge” organized by […]
Sixth Street and North Star Community School will be the first two facilities the Rainy River District School Board reviews as it begins to assess how to best spend its school renewal funding next year, it was revealed at last night’s meeting. Other schools to be reviewed down the road […]
District grade three students are right on course in their reading, writing, and math according to testing results revealed at last night’s Rainy River District School Board meeting. The results, which were released by the Ministry of Education on Friday afternoon, indicate an improvement over testing done in 1997/1998–a change […]
Rainycrest’s effort to get 32 beds for a special needs unit will now be a matter of waiting, as administration waits to be interviewed, along with three other competitors, by the Ministry of Health later this month. During a public session last Thursday afternoon at the Travelodge in Kenora, Rainycrest […]
While Ontario announced last Friday its decision to drop the rule requiring non-resident anglers to stay overnight in the province in order to keep walleye and sauger, some members of the Border Waters Coalition say the next step will be equally important. “It’s time for our federal people to start […]
The “RiverWatch” program is off to a good start, organizer Jennifer Mercer noted yesterday, after completing several field trips with elementary schools on both sides of the border. Students in grades five-seven at Robert Moore, J.W. Walker, Donald Young, Riverview, and Indus schools headed down to the Rainy River to […]
As if a fee increase for hunting and angling licences isn’t bad enough, what’s most irking some locals is that non-residents won’t face a similar jump. “I’m not happy with [the increased fees],” noted local hunter Murray DeGagne. “Why are residents being targeted and not non-residents?” Shawn O’Donnell, president of […]
