Peggy Revell While the younger generation has been raised to know the importance of recycling, recently-released data from Waste Diversion Ontario (WDO) shows municipalities across Northern Ontario are nowhere near the provincial average for waste diversion. From data collected for 2007, Ontario residents, on average, generated more than a kilogram […]
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Peggy Revell The Rainy River District Community Legal Clinic and Kenora Community Legal Clinic will be amalgamated to form the Northwest Community Legal Clinic effective April 1. “The clients shouldn’t see any change in service,” noted Trudy McCormick, executive director of the Rainy River District clinic and who will be […]
Dave Ogilvie The Emo Legion welcomed spring on Friday (March 20) with the largest “jam” yet, which saw 20 musicians and several dozen people singing and dancing until late into the night. The musicians who came in from the farthest away were Louis Hawkness from Dryden, Vern Silver and Lawrence Bellamy from Atikokan, and […]
Peggy Revell Rainy River resident Lee Dillman explained to Gail Beyak the process he goes through to carve and create life-like models of fish during a demonstration Saturday at the Fort Frances Museum. Dillman, who creates the fish using items easily found around the house, donated a number of his […]
Joey Payeur Ignorance may be bliss, but at the Northwest Bay ice track on Saturday, Bliss was just another word for victorious. Dave Bliss had no equal when it came to chalking up the wins during the radar run event, hosted at the ice oval north of Devlin for the […]
Mitch Calvert Talk about pulling it all together. Fort Frances native Carly Holt and her Lethbridge junior girls’ hockey squad struggled all season to get enough numbers out to practices and games, but then rose above the rest when it mattered most with a 3-0 whitewash of the Irma Junior […]
Peggy Revell Austin Melnick looked to make a big splash during the free swim last Wednesday afternoon at the Memorial Sports Centre pool in conjunction with March Break. Courtesy of the Women’s Health Symposium, a free skate also was offered Friday afternoon.
Staff Local hockey players born between 1992 and 1994 will get a chance to strut their stuff next month as they look to move up the ladder. The Kenora Midget ‘AAA’ Thistles will hold an identification camp April 11-12 in Vermilion Bay in preparation for the 2009-10 season. The Thistles, […]
Staff The annual Fort Frances men’s bonpiel goes this weekend and organizers are looking for a couple more teams to round out a 32-rink field. Those interested are asked to sign up with Rick at the Fort Frances Curling Club (274-6667). The opening draw is set for Friday at 4 […]
Joey Payeur With the Major League Baseball season opening in less than two weeks, those who enjoy the delights of the diamond soon will have their hunger for the grand old game satisfied. The same can be said for those of the younger generation here in the Rainy River district. […]
Joey Payeur Teams that want to participate in the seventh-annual Emo Walleye Classic in May may be left standing on the dock if they don’t get their money on the table in short order. The registration deadline for the EWC is this Monday (March 30), with all teams needing to […]
Jeff Gustafson While ice conditions throughout Sunset Country have deteriorated rapidly, it’s still possible to catch a late-season crappie like this one from area lakes.
