Jack Elliott The Rainy River Cattlemen’s Association held its final sale of the season on Saturday (Oct. 24). Just over 680 head went through the ring, made up of 83 cull cows, 30-40 bred cows, nine bulls, and 334 calves, with the balance being yearling feeders. “The market particularly for […]
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Staff The OPP is looking for information following an act of vandalism at the Cranberry Peatlands Interpretive Trail in Alberton. Sometime between Oct. 18 and 20, a park bench the Rainy River Valley Field Naturalists had installed earlier this month was demolished and thrown into the pond. The bench—which has […]
Staff The Muskie junior girls’ basketball team continued their fine play this season with a second-place showing at their home tournament, which wrapped up Saturday. The black-and-gold won their opening two games—30-19 over St. Patrick’s and then a 45-5 romp versus Superior—but then fell 22-19 to Hammarskjold in the final. […]
the MNR Ministry of Natural Resources conservation officers, including the canine unit, conducted an eight-hour joint enforcement road check on Oct. 16 with Ministry of Transportation and OPP officers. Officers checked 1,518 residents, most from southern Ontario travelling on Highway 11/17 in Nipigon District, for compliance with the Fish and […]
Staff Fort High sent a contingent to the Northwestern Ontario Cross-Country Running Championship last Wednesday at the Kamview Nordic Centre in Thunder Bay. Hailey Clendenning had the school’s best finish, placing 14th out of a field of 51 runners in the Midget girls’ division. The Hammarskjold Vikings captured the overall […]
Staff The Fort Frances ‘AA’ Midget Canadians made a statement in their season-opener Saturday—thrashing the Mitchell Mohawks of Mitchell, Man. by a 9-2 score. Ryan Lundy led the way with a hat trick while Brett Bodnarchuk added two goals. Chipping in with singles were Chris Bobczynski, Dylan Grinsell, Cody Bodnar, […]
Staff Junior pair compete in Winnipeg Two junior players from the Fort Frances Badminton Club participated in the Winnipeg Under-14 Badminton Open at the Wildewood Club over the weekend. Anika Alexander won her first match in the girls’ singles event against E. Gillespie (Wildewood Club) by scores of 21-9 and […]
Duane Hicks With daily headlines about viruses and vaccines pushing the possibility of a pandemic to the forefront of the public consciousness, the local Community Control Group has plans in place to keep essential services running just in case there ever is an outbreak. “Obviously, the H1N1 [’flu] has been […]
Peggy Revell Toronto will be getting a big taste of Rainy River District for 10 days next month as local agri-businesses gear up to send their products down east for the 87th-annual Royal Agricultural Winter Fair. “We’re taking the region to the Royal Winter Fair,” said Jeanette Cawston, rural ag […]
Mitch Calvert The Fort Frances Lakers achieved a minor victory of sorts last Thursday with a 6-3 pounding of the K&A Wolverines in Thunder Bay, but still were looking to get their first home-ice win of the season when they welcomed the Dryden Ice Dogs to the Ice For Kids […]
Duane Hicks While some members of the public have expressed concern over “cracks” in the reconstructed underpass, Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown told council Monday night that those are concrete construction joints and do not have to be repaired. “We’ve got these concrete construction joints that are within the […]
Heather Latter The H1N1 adjuvanted vaccine has arrived at the Northwestern Health Unit and immunization clinics are now underway. After kicking off yesterday in Rainy River, the clinics began today in Fort Frances while the first H1N1 vaccinations will be administered in Emo tomorrow starting at 9 a.m. The clinics, […]
