Press Release As part of a Northern Ontario grassroots initiative, pro-life speaker Jojo Ruba has been invited to discuss the value of human life and objective truth. He will present “Loving Our Unborn Neighbour” this Wednesday (March 23) from 7:30-8:30 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church on Colonization Road in Emo, […]
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Press Release Canada Safeway is warning the public about a current phone scam whereby either an automated or live caller poses as a representative of the company seeking personal credit card information under the pretext that the person has won a large prize. Canada Safeway does not make unsolicited phone […]
Press Release Northern Community Development Services (NCDS) has completed all the renovations! We would like to invite the people of Rainy River District to join us for an “open house” celebration this Thursday (March 24) from 3-7 p.m. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. “The hard work […]
Staff Savings from the uploading of the Ontario Drug Benefit Program only will be partially returned to municipalities after the Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board approved its 2011-12 budget last night. This year, DSSAB saw its budget fall from $20,479,372 to $15,463,816—a reduction of $5,015,556, or 24.49 percent. […]
Staff The Fort Frances Fire and Rescue Service responded to a residential fire late last night on the 1100 block of Colonization Road West. Firefighters were called to the scene at 11:30 p.m., the department reported this morning. They got a quick “knockdown” on the blaze, but the residence sustained […]
Staff Town council will have to give further thought as to what to do with the old Rainy Lake Hotel property after no one submitted a tender for it during a tax sale last month. According to a report from tax administrator Tara Redford, council can decide on any of […]
Staff Those wanting to attend next month’s presentation by Margaret Trudeau here should purchase their tickets as soon as possible since they are selling quickly. “We have about 60 left,” Tana Langtry, community liaison worker with the local branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association, said this morning. “They are […]
Press Release Programs for all divisions (Piano, Vocal, Drama, and Instrumental) of this year’s Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts are now available online at ff-festival.com Hard copies may be purchased at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre and Cloverleaf in Emo. The festival will run April […]
Staff Although the Rainy River Future Development Corp. has seen a dramatic decline in the use of its events tent in recent years, it will not sell the tent quite yet and instead hold on to it for two more years. “After carefully reviewing the comments we received from participating […]
In last week’s edition of the Times, a story concerning proposed changes to the Rainy River District School Board’s transportation policy included comments from a parent whose children actually attend school in the local Catholic system. The RRDSB wishes to clarify that any changes to its transportation policies only will […]
the NHU Since 2009, meningococcal conjugate quadrivalent vaccine has been publicly-funded to protect against four strains of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD), which includes meningitis or blood infections caused by types ACYW-135 Neisseria meningitidis bacteria. (This replaces the previously funded Men C, which provided protection against C strain only). The Northwestern […]
Staff AbitibiBowater in Thunder Bay will be providing more clean power and adding 56 permanent jobs thanks to help from the McGuinty government. But local MPP Howard Hampton is asking where the provincial aid for other Northwestern Ontario mills was? “I am happy for workers at the AbitibiBowater mill in […]
