Heather Latter She’s been compared to the likes of Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald, but blues singer Sunday Wilde says she’s just a small-town girl working hard to share her music with the world. And she must be doing something right because the 42-year-old mom from […]
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Peggy Revell With voices raised in song to celebrate and give thanks to water, the “2011 Mother Earth Water Walk” was welcomed to this area last week. More than 50 people joined in for one small leg of this walk as a copper bucket filled with water drawn from the […]
Peggy Revell Rainy River District School Board voted 5-2 last night to rescind the changes made—behind closed doors—to severance packages of senior administration by the former board. While actual conditions of the contracts could not be reversed unilaterally, the motion was brought forward by trustee Ralph Hill so the public […]
Heather Latter To help address the need of providing safe, affordable housing to aboriginal people living off-reserve, Wahkaihganun Futures Corp. yesterday held the “ground-breaking” for a 10-unit apartment complex, which will be located at 237 Eighth St. W. “We have long recognized that the urban aboriginal population is growing,” noted […]
Zoey Duncan “My mom is going to die in Rainycrest. There’s no doubt about it.” June Caul is heartbroken when she speaks about her mother. At 87, Mary Caul lives at the local long-term care facility after a series of strokes prompted her family to move her there three years […]
Zoey Duncan After spending more than two years concerned about the level of contamination in their backyards, Couchiching residents who live on the site of the former J.A. Mathieu sawmill will move into new homes beginning this summer. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) had declared the land surrounding Harry’s […]
Lucas Punkari It’s been nearly four months since his last race, which was the ARCA season-opener at Daytona. But for Fort Frances native Steve Arpin, his long wait is about to come to an end as he’ll take to the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway in his #32 Mike’s Hard Lemonade-sponsored […]
Peggy Revell With prayers and thanks, participants in the annual “Mother Earth Water Walk” offered tobacco last Wednesday afternoon to the waters at the Ranier rapids, where Rainy Lake flows into the Rainy River. The walk—which has seen a copper pail filled with water from the Hudson Bay travelling by […]
Heather Latter Scott Jolicoeur tried out the pilot seat of Patrick Langevin’s Grumman Tiger four-seater plane Saturday during the 12th-annual “Fly-in, Drive-in BBQ” at the Fort Frances Airport. The event—designed to showcase the local airport by having private pilots fly in here for the day—featured a number of planes as […]
Jack Elliott This robin, which is largely white, was first sighted last year in Rainy River by Frank Books, who saw this bird, along with another partially-white robin, near his home. The birds then disappeared but regularly were spotted along the river a few blocks south. This bird apparently has […]
Lucas Punkari Christopher Leek lost control in turn #3 on Saturday evening while battling for the lead with Chuck Lambert during the WISSOTA Midwest Modified feature at the Emo Speedway. Leek fell out of the race a couple of laps later as a result of damage suffered in this incident […]
Peggy Revell Calls for co-operation to address the needs of an ever-growing senior population here were presented to town council last night as it heard input for the 2011 strategic planning process. “[The aging population] is a tsunami that is sweeping right across Canada,” Robert Schulz, co-chair of the local […]
