If Ontario is open for business, Greg Rickford, our member of Provincial Parliament, must impress upon Doug Ford and his colleagues at Queen’s Park that the Ontario government cannot stand idly by while a Quebec company monopolizes Northwestern Ontario’s forests and makes it impossible to restart the Fort Frances mill […]
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Members of the Rainy Lake Conservancy (RLC) group met for their annual general meeting and heard a presentation from Kim Embretson, right, at La Place Rendez-Vous on Sunday. Embretson’s presentation was centred around improving the RLC members’ photography skills. The conservancy group is dedicated to protecting Rainy Lake and its […]
Sam Odrowski
A group of local women took to the streets last Thursday to empower nursing mothers and help them feel confident breastfeeding whenever their babies are hungry. More than a dozen ladies marched from the Fort Frances Public Library to the Rainy Lake Square while holding up a “World Breastfeeding Week” […]
Sam Odrowski
The Town of Fort Frances is calling on the province to revoke Resolute Forest Product’s Sustainable Forest License for the Crossroute Forest after discovering a document that prevents the local mill’s restart. “With multiple serious parties having expressed interest in reopening this mill and creating jobs for our community, we […]
Summer reporter
Marc Stuempfle
Marc Stuempfle
There are only a few weeks left of summer which mean “Backpacks for Kids” organizers are collecting school supplies to help local children get ready before they head back to school. “Backpacks for Kids” is a local non-profit group of volunteers which help families within the Rainy River District accommodate […]
Ken Kellar
Members of the Rainy Lake Conservancy held their annual general meeting this past weekend at La Place Rendez-Vous. While the group had to deal with several business matters that arose since their last AGM, they were also treated to a pair of presentations about conservancy and the beauty of our […]
Submitted Sisters Zaila and Phoenix Rose generously donated four backpacks last month, joining the many individuals and businesses on board with this year’s “Backpacks for Kids” campaign. Organizers are aiming to get at least 250 backpacks full of school supplies this year.
Sam Odrowski A group of women joined together at the Rainy Lake Square for a “latch mob” following their march from the Fort Frances Public Library on Thursday in an effort to advocate for public breastfeeding during “World Breastfeeding Week.” The group hopes to build confidence in mothers and help […]
Sam Odrowski Dairy Queen employee Nancy Armstrong showed off one of the many Blizzards that got sent out to local businesses last Thursday for Miracle Treat Day. DQ sold 838 Blizzards locally, raising a total of $4,950. All of the money from Blizzard sales that day will go to the […]
Ken Kellar Award-winning blues musician Suzie Vinnick wowed the crowd with her powerful vocals and deft guitar playing at Cornell Farms last Wednesday evening. Vinnick is a 10-time winner of the Maple Blues award, and has been nominated for a JUNO award three times. The next barn concert will feature […]
Sam Odrowski A group of mothers strolled their babies along Scott Street on Thursday during a co-ordinated march for “World Breastfeeding Week.” The event was meant to raise awareness around the importance of breastfeeding and that mothers shouldn’t feel ashamed to feed their baby publicly.
Ken Kellar The students of Seven Generations Education Institute’s hairstyling program watched as Tyrone Choken, right, demonstrated how to trim a fade on model Braeden Beazley at the hairstyling classroom on King’s Highway on Monday. Choken is a barber at SAINT in Winnipeg. He began cutting hair following a workplace […]
