Peggy Revell Construction is well underway at Manitou Rapids on new pow-wow grounds for the Rainy River First Nations. Located at the junction of Highways 11 and 71, the project began last spring and is slated for completion by this summer. The grounds will be able to hold just under […]
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Duane Hicks FORT FRANCES—With spring getting closer all the time, plans already are coming together for the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s 21st-annual home and leisure show here May 1-2. Chamber manager Dawn Booth said exhibitor packages were sent out last month, and businesses already have started to sign up. […]
Staff A presentation of the Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board’s draft budget is planned for tonight’s monthly meeting. Currently in the process of preparing their own annual budgets, municipalities across the district are waiting for the DSSAB budget to be finalized so they know how much of their […]
Duane Hicks Fort Frances OPP Community Services officer Cst. Anne McCoy explained the benefits of being an OPP officer to a group of about 20 men and women at the Civic Centre last night during a recruitment session. With more and more “baby-boomers” retiring, the OPP is looking for new […]
Mitch Calvert The Muskie boys’ hockey team clinched first place in the NorWOSSA standings with a 5-2 win over the Dryden Eagles here Tuesday night. The black-and-gold jumped out to a 3-0 lead on goals by Donovan Cousineau, Devin Ball, and Matt Goldamer. The Eagles made a game of it […]
Staff All four Muskie court sports teams wrapped up the regular season with wins over the Kenora Broncos here Tuesday. The junior girls’ volleyball team outlasted a scrappy Broncos’ squad for a five-set victory by scores of 23-25, 25-14, 25-22, 23-25, and 15-11. The juniors improved to 6-2 with the […]
Dave Ogilvie Donald Young School’s annual musical is set to go! The cast and crew of “Seussical the Musical” will be staging three performances for the general public starting next Wednesday-Friday (Feb. 25-27) at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $6 for adults and $3 for children. The students, under the direction […]
the MNR A Manitoba resident has been convicted of failing to properly dispose of household garbage and construction material. Jeffrey Allan, 47, of Ile des Chenes, was fined $750 and ordered to clean up the site on Crown land where he had dumped his trash. Court heard that on Nov. […]
Press Release Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. will be conducting on-site surveys at each of its facilities during the week of Feb. 23 through March 1. The goal of the survey is to determine the level of satisfaction with regard to Riverside’s services and facilities. “We want to know if […]
Duane Hicks Area businesses that want to know how good their customer service is, and how they could improve, have until this Friday (Feb. 20) to sign up for the Rainy River Future Development Corp.’s sixth-annual customer service challenge. RRFDC officer manager Cynde Milette said that as of noon yesterday, […]
Mitch Calvert Despite the fact a local team missed out on an opportunity to represent the town at the NOCA men’s provincial curling playdowns here last week, several players with connections to Rainy River District took to the ice at the Fort Frances Curling Club. Rob Sinclair Jr., second for […]
Staff The Novice/Atom portion of the 11th-annual Fort Frances girls’ hockey tournament was held over the weekend, with eight Atom squads representing Fort Frances, International Falls, Dryden, and Thunder Bay attending. Between them, the Fort Frances Rolling Lake Lightning and Fort Frances Esso took to the ice 10 times, with […]
