Many people were shocked and saddened by an incident last Tuesday when seven puppies were found abandoned in a dumpster behind the 364 Store here. But the local “Friends of Animals” group sees the act as not only a tragedy but a wake-up call for people to start taking the […]
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First-grader Josh Wilson was the guest of the honour at last night’s Rainy River District School Board meeting to show off his much improved reading skills. A student in Charleen Gustafson’s class at Donald Young School in Emo, Wilson was the first graduate from the “Reading Recovery” program started in […]
Construction of the “multi-use” facility at Westfort here is continuing at a steady pace, with Rainy River District superintendent Murray Quinn saying it should be ready to move into before students break for summer vacation. Taking a quick tour of the site last Wednesday, Quinn noted several rooms on the […]
As the Jan. 31 deadline for small businesses in the district to join the Safe Communities Incentive Program looms, several SCIP members took the time to laud the benefits of the safety program. “One of the incentives for me was to make for a safer workplace, and be able to […]
While registrations for activities during the Little Amik Winter Carnival are trickling in, organizers are gearing up for the onslaught of participants and onlookers expected at the seventh-annual celebration running Feb. 4-7. First on the event schedule is the popular “Candlelight Ski,” which will be held next Thursday evening on […]
On a recent trip to attend meetings at the American Academy of Optometry in San Francisco, Drs. Robert and Bruce Lidkea of Lidkea, Elliott, and Lidkea Optometrists here purchased a new piece of equipment that will assist in the testing of children as young as six months.
Final results of a 15-day stint of hyberbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for six-year-old Brett Jewell of Fort Frances won’t be fully known for a couple of weeks but indications are the innovative treatment has diminished some of the side effects of his cerebral palsy. The youngster and his mother, Kathy, […]
Mark Faragher is calling it a dream pulled into reality. The Fort Frances entrepreneur received $90,000 from the Transitional Jobs Fund during a grand-opening ceremony here yesterday to help his new company–Fibre Works Canada–get off the ground. Fibre Works is the sole producer for “Top-Up” products, a company based in […]
Local MP Robert Nault was on hand yesterday to present NorFab Building Components a cheque for $355,000 at the grand-opening ceremony of its new utility shed plant–a $1-million expansion for the local company. Several dozen people were on hand as NorFab owner Mel DeGagne, together with Nault, Alberton Coun. John […]
Local resident Harold “Bo” Armstrong is in Minneapolis today in hopes of bringing the state of Minnesota on his side in the fight over boundary waters. Armstrong, along with Rainer resident Carl Brown, were charged in the summer of 1996 for taking a group of people on a scheduled boat […]
As the fourth and final part of a two-day telecommunications workshop here last week, the director of information technology for Contact North gave participants a peek at the future of distance education.
Fort High students saw their charity work pay off big time when the “Hurricane Mitch” fundraiser dinner Sunday night helped them break the $2,000 mark in donations earned. The dinner, which featured Central American-style cuisine, attracted more than 60 people who raised over $600. But more than the money, FFHS […]
