Heather Latter As a First Responder at Fort Frances High School, a team of students, including Jerry Wu and Lyle Dolph, has been on the scene to assess everything from chemical burns and drug overdoses to lacerations, bone trauma, and seizures. But while they’ve been trained to deal with these […]
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Duane Hicks A local committee of stakeholders is recommending the old Rainy Lake Hotel be demolished and redeveloped as a “Mainstreet Market Square.” The preliminary plans were unveiled at a public meeting last Wednesday night at the Legion. The market square may contain a gateway paying homage to the former […]
Duane Hicks Canadian scientist and doctor, Sir Frederick Banting, and his assistant, Charles Best, are credited with the first successful treatment of diabetes with insulin 90 years ago. But even today, Canada ranks among the leaders in diabetes research and management. This was part of the message delivered by keynote […]
Lucas Punkari Sixteen years after he took part in the 100th anniversary of the Boston Marathon, local runner Lorne Ricard made the trek back down to Beantown last Monday to compete in this year’s edition. Even though it was his second time, the 57-year-old said this year’s event was a […]
Lucas Punkari With the opening games of the NorWOSSA regular season just two weeks away, the Muskie boys’ and girls’ soccer teams are getting a chance to show what they have in a number of pre-season exhibition matches. After hosting the Rainy River Owls yesterday afternoon, the boys will travel […]
Lucas Punkari The Muskie badminton season came to an end last Wednesday at the NWOSSAA playoffs in Thunder Bay. With a berth at this year’s all-Ontario championships on the line, the boys’ doubles team of Bryson Skirten and Andre Emond finished fourth in the six-team round-robin with a 2-3 record. […]
Heather Latter Jerry Wu, a Fort Frances High School student and Emergency Medical Responder (EMR), had a chance to practise chest compressions on “METIman” at La Verendrye Hospital last week while local paramedic John Beaton assisted. The $58,000 simulator mannequin, which provides a realistic educational and training opportunity, is one […]
Heather Latter Sydney Anderson, right, and Iva-Jo Andy, Grade 1 students in Carla Harris’ class at St. Michael’s School here, decorated brown paper bags on Monday in conjunction with “Earth Day” (April 22) that will be used by customers at Einar’s Foods.
Dave Loney, left, representing the late Maurice MacMillan, along with Chapple Reeve Peter Van Heyst, Linda Hamilton (Ontario Trillium Foundation), Emo Mayor Vince Sheppard, Chapple Coun. Rilla Race, La Vallee Coun. Freeda Carmody, and librarian Shirley Sheppard took part in the ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday in front of the newly-renovated Emo […]
Lucas Punkari Erika Moffitt worked on her volleying skills last Thursday afternoon as she and the rest of the Muskie girls’ soccer team continued practising for the upcoming NorWOSSA season, which gets underway here May 9.
Staff The OPP North West Regional Command, in partnership with the Fort Frances and Atikokan Police Services Boards, are pleased to announce that Insp. Steve Shouldice has been named as Rainy River District OPP detachment commander. “On behalf of the board, congratulations,” John McTaggart, chair of the Fort Frances Police […]
Duane Hicks Bell Mobility wants to rent space on the water tower here to install six wireless mobility antennae to its concrete foundation. Council approved, in principle, the rental at last night’s regular meeting. Bell Mobility now will go and work out the structural details on how the concrete foundation […]
