Heather Latter Educators with the Rainy River District School Board and from Seven Generations Education Institute continued with their second day of mental health first aid training today at the school board office in an effort to prepare themselves to help students who may be developing a mental health problem. […]
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Heather Latter The top performers from this year’s Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts took to the stage Sunday afternoon at the Townshend Theatre to showcase their talents during the annual highlights concert. And the most prestigious awards—the coveted Rose Bowls—were presented to Lorianne Dueck (piano) and Taylor […]
Sarah Pruys The Robert Moore School gym may have been hot and heavily-perfumed, but that didn’t stop the “Mamma Needs to Redecorate” fundraiser from being a great success. Held Sunday afternoon, the event raised just over $9,000 for the Riverside Foundation for Health Care—$600 more than last year. All 160 […]
Heather Latter More than 20 residents will be heading to “jail” this Saturday (May 11) as the local Voyageur Lions Club hosts its “Jail or Bail” fundraiser at Canadian Tire from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. “People have been quite positive about it and have agreed to go into jail,” noted club […]
Heather Latter Anthony Leek, the Liberal candidate for Kenora-Rainy River, hailed last week’s provincial budget as “balanced” but local NDP MPP Sarah Campbell and PC candidate Randy Nickle weren’t as enthusiastic. “There are some good parts and there are some bad parts,” Campbell remarked. “For me, one of the fundamental […]
Lucas Punkari After a couple of years of seeing their summer bookings improved, regional tourist outfitters are expecting another good year in 2013. “I think it’s going to be a pretty good season overall,” said Lucas Adams, owner of Gateway North Outfitters on Off Lake north of Emo, who was […]
Duane Hicks Northern communities that have been the victims of mill closures and similar economic hardships increasingly are looking to tourism to reinvent themselves. But are small businesses open to this shift in focus. And if so, how ready are they? Nicholina Youroukos, who recently completed her Masters in Environmental […]
Lucas Punkari Even though he played his last match of the season Saturday, Muskie Taylor Whitehead still is trying to come down from the emotional high of earning a fourth-place result and the antique bronze medal in the boys’ ‘C’ flight at the OFSAA badminton championships. “I still have the […]
Lucas Punkari Dale Gill of the Fort Frances Fire Department worked at extinguishing a grass fire near the train tracks off Frenette Avenue that occured shortly after 8 p.m. on Monday. The exact cause of the blaze remains unknown but it’s clear the fire hazard is on the rise now […]
The most prestigious awards—the coveted Rose Bowls—were presented to Lorianne Dueck (piano), left, and Taylor Shouldice (vocal). Ericka Tymkin was the recipient of the third Rose Bowl (for drama) but was unable to attend the highlights concert to accept the award.
Addison Hyatt, five, took aim at the centre of a deer cut-out and sent her foam dart flying at the sixth-annual Gun and Hobby Show on Saturday at the Fort Frances Curling Club. The show, which featured a variety of products, saw a record 760 people attend from 10 a.m.-4 […]
Lucas Punkari Auctioneer Telford Advent tried to convince Steve Barnard to bid on a chrome bar table while his wife, Anne, watched on during the live auction at the annual Ducks Unlimited banquet here Friday night.
