the OPP On Tuesday around 7 p.m., Thunder Bay OPP responded to a report of two females who were lost on the cross-country ski trails in Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park. The females had gotten turned around on one of the trails and could not find their way out to the […]
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Staff Mike Badiuk is in the middle of a dogfight to see who will be Northern Ontario’s next king of curling. The Devlin native is playing third for Thunder Bay’s Dylan Johnston, who split his two games yesterday at the provincial men’s championship in Timmins to sit in a four-way […]
Heather Latter Early-learning students at Robert Moore School displayed their tall tower made of 100 cups—just one of the many activities the youngsters took part in while celebrating the 100th day of classes Monday.
Duane Hicks Curvy Chick owner Jennifer Horton-Chepil sampled one of Shelly Wepruk’s cupcakes during “An Evening of Wine & Chocolate” yesterday at the Super 8 Motel. The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce mix-and-mingle (sponsored by Super 8, Curvy Chick, and Fort Floral) featured treats by Wepruk, Doubly Delicious, and Fifth […]
Staff With just over a day left for new communities to be nominated, Fort Frances appears to be in good shape to advance to the next round of Kraft “Hockeyville” 2014. As of this morning, the home page for Fort Frances on the “Hockeyville” website (krafthockeyville.cbc.ca) showed 153 members having […]
Duane Hicks With the cold snap refusing to let up, the town continues to get more and more reports of residents’ water lines freezing. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown said that as of yesterday afternoon, Public Works had gotten calls about 48 frozen service lines. A total of 39 […]
Duane Hicks A regional obesity activist is elated by a recent campaign by a U.S. teen girl’s to get Disney to create a “plus-size” princess. Paul Murphy, founder of Obesity Thunder Bay (www.obesitythunderbay.ning.com), applauded the efforts of Jewel Moore, a high school junior from Farmville, Va., who last week started […]
Joey Payeur Eagles tend to feast on fish. But the Muskie junior girls’ volleyball team has shown the Dryden version of the winged predator that black-and-gold fish have some fight in them. The Muskies (5-1) continued their dominant play against the Eagles this season by sweeping the visitors 27-25, 25-21, […]
Devin Eldridge Kaylyn Levesque of the Border Skating Club soared through the air with the greatest of ease at the Sunset Country Interclub regional figure skating competition in this past weekend in Sioux Lookout. Levesque finished with one gold in the preliminary team event, as well as a silver, two […]
Duane Hicks Kayla Caul-Chartier, director of resident care at Rainycrest, admired a bulletin board decorated for Valentine’s Day with art made by residents there. The board is also where Rainycrest’s own monthly newsletter, written by resident David Fontana, is posted.
Heather Latter Three-year-old Robert Handberg put a sticker in his “passport” while stopping by the day care room during a tour of Robert Moore School yesterday. The youngster was registering for the early-learning program for the 2014-15 school year. While registration began this week at schools across the district, parents […]
the OPP The Rainy River District OPP welcomes the Snowmobile Trail Officer Patrol (S.T.O.P.) program to the district. This is a community-based enforcement program that uses the assistance of special constables, with the goals of increasing snowmobile safety awareness, compliance with snowmobile laws, and enforcement under the Motorized Snow Vehicle […]
