Couchiching First Nation Chief Brian Perrault, standing, spoke following Kenora-Rainy River MPP Greg Rickford’s announcement of more than $152,000 in funding to the Rainy Lake Tribal Area Business and Financial Services Corporation to help and strengthen the organization’s support to Indigenous businesses and entrepreneurs. The funding is part of an […]
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Rainy River Future Development Corporation (RRFDC) chair Gordon Armstrong thanked Kenora-Rainy River MPP Greg Rickford for providing the RRFDC with $18,000 to explore the feasibility of a modular home manufacturing facility in the district, following his announcement at council chambers last Thursday. -Sam Odrowski photo
Kenora-Rainy River MPP Greg Rickford announced $2.25-million through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corportation for Seven Generations Education Institute’s “Connected Classroom” project during a stop at their Fort Frances campus on Friday afternoon. The new project will see several rooms in SGEI campuses across the region outfitted with hightech and […]
Ken Kellar CMHA geriatric mental health worker Sarah-Lynn Klassen, left, handed off some of the Seniors Companion Project’s new promotional material to Riverside Community Sports Services and Assisted Living supervisor Nicole Egan during a stakeholder meeting for the project at the Fort Frances Library yesterday morning. The promotional pamphlets and […]
Owner of Ink Spotz Apparel, Scott Kreinke-Turvey, gave a short presentation to council on why he objects to the single-use plastics bylaw that the town unanimously approved at Monday night’s council meeting. His primary concerns are the environmental impacts of reusable bags, that the bylaw will hurt tourism, and negatively […]
Submitted Kenora Rainy River MPP Greg Rickford and Seven Generations Education Institute CEO Brent Tookenay posed for a photo with a number of the district First Nation chiefs and executives who helped to secure the $2.25-million in funding for the “Connected Classrooms” project through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation […]
Ken Kellar Kenora-Rainy River MPP Greg Rickford stopped by the Fort Frances Senior Centre on Friday for a quick lunch and to announce more than $68,000 in funding that will be going towards seniors in Fort Frances. More than $52,000 for upkeep and programming will be going to the Senior […]
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Creating a path forward for tourism development and marketing in Fort Frances has been the focus of the town’s Municipal Accommodation Tax Committee as of late. Rynic Consulting was recently hired by the town to assist in the development of these plans and spent a few days last week working […]
Sam Odrowski
Improving La Vallee’s core infrastructure is one of the top priorities for its council in 2020. “Our roads and bridge infrastructure is one of the few things that the municipality does have control over but a big thing is to secure capital funding to make improvements,” said La Vallee’s reeve, […]
Dave Ogilvie
Emo correspondent
Emo correspondent
The “Country Jams” for Emo will be on Jan. 17, Feb. 21 and March 13, 2020 at the Emo Legion. For a great evening of old time favourites with family and friends please mark these dates on your calendar. The musicians will start playing sometime around 7 p.m. and will […]
Staff The Fort Frances PeeWee ‘AA’ Canadians were unable to advance to the championship game of their annual home tournament and the Warroad Warriors took full advantage of it. Damon Skappel and Devin McCormick both netted hat tricks to pace the Warriors to a 9-1 rout of the International Falls […]
Jamie Mountain It was a great weekend for the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team as they finished with a silver medal at the annual Falcon Invitational Tournament held in Thunder Bay on Friday and Saturday. The black-and-gold opened play on Friday with a 57-47 win over the Hammarskjold Vikings. The […]
