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 […]
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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 […]
Local aviation artist Cher Hogan is heading south this week to accept one of three top art awards in the “Horizons of Flight Competition”–the largest aviation art contest in North America. Hogan will be presented with the “American Women in Aviation Maintenance” award for her painting entitled, “Personal Touch.” It […]
With “Gate Night” and Hallowe’en coming up this weekend, police officers and volunteers will be hitting the town streets for “Operation Pumpkin”–the annual patrol aimed at preventing vandalism. Now in its seventh year, the program has worked well to curb mischievous acts in the past and police expect this year’s […]
Jeremy Asselin is glad he has a cousin like Tyson Grinsell. Some quick thinking by Grinsell, a fourth-grader at Robert Moore School, ensured an ambulance was dispatched immediately after seeing his eight-year-old cousin get struck by a pick-up truck just before noon last Wednesday at the corner of Second Street […]
About 20 people got to talk “face to face” to four video conferencing experts from Toronto, Boston, and Calgary last Friday–all from the comfort of one conference room at the Red Dog Inn here. Just one of its seven video conferencing centres across Northwestern Ontario, Thunder Vision Inc. and Bell […]
