Ken Kellar Mike Tkachyk, left, Troy Parks, Richard Ottertail, Karen Erwin and Joe Galbraith stand with some of the projects that the group worked on over the summer at Front Street Manor. Galbraith oversaw the group and lent his experience to helping residents plan their projects, as well as doing […]
News
Ken Kellar Rainy River Giant Pumpkin Festival organizer Val Moor noted the weight of the final pumpkin to be weighed as a crowd gathered around it during the festival on Saturday. The pumpkin, grown by Jim Mills, weighed in at 714 pounds, making it the grand-prize winner for the festival […]
Local author Jack Hedman spoke to district students yesterday morning about “Dire Needs-Dire Straits,” the book he wrote on residential school survivors, following the Orange Shirt Day Awareness Walk. Students cycled through eight workshops where they learned about different aspects of residential school and indigenous culture. -Sam Odrowski photo
Ken Kellar
Kenora will be the future home of a brand new kind of justice. Kenora-Rainy River MPP Greg Rickford was joined by Ontario attorney general Doug Downey in Kenora on Thursday, where they announced a Kenora Justice Centre that is meant to address the over-representation of Indigenous people in the local […]
Rick Neilson
Special to the Times
Special to the Times
Times’ feature writer Rick Neilson recently attended the 50th birthday celebration held for Kim Jo Bliss. Part of Rick’s article appeared in the Focus on Farming piece published last week as space allowed. What follows is a series of additional comments made by and about Kim Jo by many of […]
Press Release
The 2018-2019 Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) results have been released.School and system leaders of the Rainy River District School Board have met to analyze and interpret the results. These results, along with other assessments, help the school board to develop and refine strategies for achievement in all areas […]
Ken Kellar
A group of residents at Front Street Manor have turned their hands to carpentry to add another personal touch to their living spaces. The residents have been working under the guidance of Joe Galbraith, who helped to organize the project. “I just kind of put something up on the board […]
Sam Odrowski
In light of concerns surrounding wood allocations being disrupted by a restarted mill in Fort Frances, proponents have assured the public wood supply wouldn’t be an issue. “I have never said, nor advised any of my clients, that one mill or one town should be favoured at the expense of […]
Ken Kellar
During a stop in Fort Frances last week, Kenora-Rainy River MPP Greg Rickford gave an update on the progress of talks surrounding the mill property in town, as well as dispelled some rumours surrounding the level of involvement of the provincial government. “We have been actively involved at every turn […]
Sam Odrowski
The history of Indian Residential School (IRS) and the effect they had on indigenous people was recently illustrated to over 300 of the district’s students. Five elementary schools across the district came to Rainy River First Nations’ (RRFN) Orange Shirt Day Awareness Walk on Oct. 1. They marched from the […]
Ken Kellar
The local law association had one of its major concerns heard during a talk with the visiting attorney general last week. Members of the Rainy River Law Association had the opportunity to sit down with Attorney General of Ontario Doug Downey during his visit to Fort Frances on Friday. Downey […]
Sam Odrowski Around 300 students from five district schools joined together in a march from the Indian Residential School Monument off Hwy. 11 on Rainy River First Nations (RRFN) to the pow-wow grounds up the Trans-Canada Highway yesterday morning during an Orange Shirt Day Awareness Walk. Students held up signs […]
