Irene Laing At the meeting of Legion Ladies Auxiliary Br. #29 on May 13, president Sylvia Gunderson initiated and warmly welcomed Sally Stewart as a new member. The re-installation of Edith Bodnar was approved, as was the membership for Rochelle Duchnicki. In other business, the auxiliary approved a donation to […]
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Press Release “You don’t know where to start. . . . You don’t know what to do to recover your dignity,” says a user of the local Salvation Army’s family services. “It’s hard to get out there. It’s a wheel because a lot of times people put on a stamp […]
Riverside May is National Physiotherapy Month and the Canadian Physiotherapy Association is putting the spotlight on four practice areas. Orthopaedic conditions like arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and degenerative disc disease can cause pain and limit your activities. Women’s health conditions like breast cancer, pelvic floor pain, and urinary incontinence can […]
Staff Nearly 60 young women from across the district will be spending this coming weekend participating in fun activities and valuable workshops as the Young Women’s Conference rolls around for another year. “The ultimate goal of the conference is that young women leave with a positive view for a hopeful […]
Press Release Thunder Bay-Rainy River riding is getting just under $280,000 in federal funding for summer jobs. MP John Rafferty said the Canada Summer Jobs funding will create 128 jobs for students at more than 90 different projects. “We worked in conjunction with Service Canada to ensure the jobs were […]
Elisabeth Heslop Students who have despaired in finding a summer job this year still could get provincial funding to help start their own company. The “Summer Company” program assists students aged 15-29 with launching and running their own company for the summer. The Ministry of Small Business and Consumer Service, […]
Riverside A group of community members with representation from the Rainy River hospital auxiliary and Riverside Foundation for Health Care has taken on the challenge to raise $50,000 to purchase an ultrasound machine for the emergency department at the Rainy River Health Centre. This ultrasound will be utilized for emergency […]
Peggy Revell Getting a kids’-eye view on improving pedestrian safety here is the goal of the recently-launched “Safe Routes” pilot project. Organized by community partners and Safe Kids Canada, the project will see a group of roughly three dozen Grade 5 and 6 students from J.W. Walker use cameras to […]
Peggy Revell Thousands from across the province applied, but St. Francis’ student Sydnee McLeod was chosen as one of 60 students to advise the education minister about issues within the provincial school system. The Grade 7 student recently was selected to sit on the Minister’s Student Advisory Council—made up of […]
Duane Hicks Residential taxpayers likely will be looking at a 1.1 percent tax increase after town council approves the 2009 budget at its June 8 meeting. During a regular budget meeting yesterday afternoon, council voted in favour of a long-term debt financing scenario outlining the following levy increases (shown here […]
Staff Family, friends, and well-wishers alike gathered for a ground-breaking ceremony yesterday afternoon to kick off construction of the Boston Pizza restaurant on King’s Highway just west of the Super 8 Motel here. Local franchisees Dale Fortes and Elizabeth Leishman-Fortes, along with their four-year-old daughter, Isabella, were on hand for […]
Duane Hicks With the Ontario government having a goal to install a “smart meter” in every Ontario home and small business by 2010, the Fort Frances Power Corp. will begin to roll out its installation program here starting Monday (May 25). FFPC CEO Joerg Ruppenstein said the meter exchange is […]
