The Rainy River Valley Safety Coalition wants to measure how safe people feel our community is for youth, and it’s turning to the public for input. The coalition’s Family and School Safety Committee is conducting a survey of what people perceive as safety issues or concerns for local youth. Committee […]
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It’s about that time of year again when Fort High students blitz the town for garbage, with their annual spring cleanup slated to start May 5. Co-ordinator Walter Horban said students and volunteers will take almost anything to the town’s landfill site. Exceptions will be shingles, and anything that is […]
Plans to build a peat plant here are, for the most part, progressing to the satisfaction of Normiska Corp. president and CEO David Graham. In a brief phone conversation from his Toronto office yesterday afternoon, Graham said ongoing activity at the company’s property along McIrvine Road is still centered around […]
Whether you call it a community service or an environmental crusade, those who participated in cleaning up several hundred feet of Biddeson Creek here last Saturday agreed it was the right thing to do. The Baha’i community of Fort Frances organized the clean-up project as part of Earth Day celebrations. […]
Whether you call it a community service or an environmental crusade, those who participated in cleaning up several hundred feet of Biddeson Creek here last Saturday agreed it was the right thing to do. The Baha’i community of Fort Frances organized the clean-up project as part of Earth Day celebrations. […]
Anyone who remembers the staircase leading to the downstairs portion of the old Stedman’s building here will get a vivid reminder of the past when they walk into Howarth’s Home Centre these days. Howarth’s is in the process of re-opening the lower level of the store, where plans to showcase […]
Gardens have always been a symbol of life. And now, a local group has come together to organize a “life garden” here as a tribute to organ donors and their families in Rainy River District. The Multiple Organ Retrieval and Exchange (MORE) life garden, which blooms in a Metro Toronto […]
Gardens have always been a symbol of life. And now, a local group has come together to organize a “life garden” here as a tribute to organ donors and their families in Rainy River District. The Multiple Organ Retrieval and Exchange (MORE) life garden, which blooms in a Metro Toronto […]
It’s a workshop for only the best in high school band across Northwestern Ontario–and it was the chance of a lifetime for five local students. Heather Keeler (baritone), Shaunna Cuthbertson (alto sax), Norma Kallstrom (trumpet), Kendra Ogden (trombone), and Jennifer Sinclair (French horn) left Monday morning for “Honour Band,” a […]
The Abitibi-Consolidated mill’s run of more than 6.3 million safe hours since a lost-time incident here came to an end last week after an employee who suffered an injury on the job was forced to be taken off work completely. The “hours worked without a lost time” clock was turned […]
Thirty hours without food. At first glance, it doesn’t seem like much. I mean, if a person sleeps for eight hours a day, that leaves only 22 waking hours to go hungry. Take a nap one day and sleep in, and that number drops below 20. So when Jordan Roy, […]
Young boaters have been targeted as Canada attempts to make its waters safer under a federal government licensing program, effective Jan. 1 of next year. Under the new regulations, everyone under the age of 16 will be required to obtain a licence to operate a motorboat on Canadian waters. The […]
