Ontario’s government is helping increase broadband access and affordability for more than 600 residents living in the Mishkeegogamang Ojibway Nation community in Northwestern Ontario. Yesterday, Greg Rickford, Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines and Minister of Indigenous Affairs, announced Keewaytinook Okimakanak is receiving $179,040 through the Northern Ontario Heritage […]
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From the OPP
The local OPP wants a few good men and women to join its local ranks. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) will offer an Information Session for the positions of Constable, Auxiliary Member and Experienced Officer. Guest speakers will be on hand to share knowledge, insight and helpful advice relating to […]
From the OPP
Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) continue to seek resolution of two unsolved homicides that occurred in Pikangikum more than a decade ago. James Strang and Judy Quill’s Killers Still at Large. At a recent news conference, OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique and Detective-Inspector Randy Heida – Major Case Manager […]
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Ontario farms are increasingly being threatened by trespassers and activists who are illegally entering property, barns and buildings, seizing private property and threatening the health and safety of the farm, employees, livestock and crops. But a local agriculture group is pushing back on the issue. Rainy River Federation of Agriculture […]
Ken Kellar Rainy River District Trapper Council president Brian Love worked on his otter skin during the trapper workshop put on by the council at the Métis Hall on Saturday. Visitors to the workshop were able to learn more about trapping as a trade, watch experienced trappers at work, or […]
Above, community partners and supporters kicked off the Coldest Day of the Year awareness walk put on by the Fort Frances Homeless Committee and Northwest Community Legal Clinic on Thursday afternoon. Below, Fort Frances mayor June Caul did the work for two people as she pulled along her grandson in […]
Participants in the Coldest Day of the Year awareness walk were invited to watch a screening of “US & Them,” a Canadian documentary on homelessness, after lunch was finished at the Out of the Cold Warming Centre on Thursday. The documentary follows filmmaker Krista Loughton as she develops friendships with, […]
St. Patrick School principal Jessica Veenbaas, left, Rainy River District EMS paramedic Kirt Pfeifer and North Star Community school vice-principal Carly Skrenski showed off some of the warm toques that have been donated to the schools in Atikokan as part of an initiative undertaken by Safe Communities Rainy River District. […]
Ken Kellar Aidan Smith, left, and his dad Joe of International Falls watched as local trapper Trevor Mills did some delicate work around a weasel scent gland during the trappers workshop put on by the Rainy River District Trappers Council at the Metis Hall on Saturday. Visitors to the event […]
Ken Kellar Jim Rognerud, 78, of International Falls demonstrated his skill, honed by years of experience, as he took a beaver from whole animal, left photo, to nearly finished skin during the workshop put on by the Rainy River District Trapper Council on Saturday. Rognerud has been trapping for 60 […]
Tonight will be clear and cold with a low of -32 C (-25 F), -38 (-36) with the wind chill. Tomorrow will be mainly sunny and frigid throughout the day and overnight with a high of -19 (two below) and a low of -28 (-18). Friday will be sunny but […]
Jack Elliott Members of the Rainy River Fix It Club (l to r) Len Ricci, Rebecca Wood, and Len Moen, stand behind the Club’s latest project. It is all disassembled, and awaiting restoration. Do you know what it is? Come to rainy this summer at see it at RailRoad Daze.
