Local News from Across the Rainy River District
The Emo Devlin Barwick Minor Hockey Association (EDBMHA) held its year end banquet Saturday April 1. A huge thank you was expressed to all players, coaches, volunteers and everyone involved with making for another successful hockey season. This years awards were presented as follows: U9 (teams white, green and black) […]
Tonight, FFGWHA celebrated our athletes, coaches, team managers, board members, bingo volunteers and all other volunteers who helped make the 2022 – 2023 hockey season a success! Thank you to everyone who supported our program this year! Below is a list of our award winners for this past season. Congratulations […]
The best and brightest Lakers were honoured last week, at the club’s annual awards banquet. The following are this year’s award recipients. – Allan Bradbury photos Other awards presented: Fan Favourite Award-Brenden Stroble Presented by Josephine Tibbs PITA (Pain in the A–) Award- Trever Sanderson Presented by Angie Korzinski Leadership […]
St. Mary’s church saw eighty good souls help out with walleye dinners during the six week Lenten season. That number included about fifty bakers who provided homemade goodies. At least 125 meals were served every Friday night ( and there was always a list started for the following week. Fish […]
Recently the number of people diagnosed with hypertension has been on the rise. Hypertension Canada says that about 1 in 5 Canadians live with this chronic disease. The term hypertension is a medical term used to describe when someone’s blood pressure is consistently above the normal level. According to the […]
The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) has expressed frustration over the federal government’s recently released Budget 2023. The group claims it, “failed to address critical issues facing Indigenous women, girls, and gender-diverse people: particularly addressing MMIWG and economic opportunity.” “A budget is about priorities – and Budget 2023 has […]
TOWN OF FORT FRANCES ‐ Mayor and Council of the Town of Fort Frances are pleased to announce the appointment of Travis Rob as Interim Chief Administrative Officer. Interim Chief Rob started his employment with the Town of Fort Frances in 2011 and became Manager of Operations in 2016. Rob […]
The Town of Fort Frances Operations and Facilities Division, through winter weather monitoring activities, is following a system that could bring a winter weather storm to the Town of Fort Frances that could pose a risk to the users of the roadways and sidewalks within the Town of Fort Frances. […]
The association representing all 36 stand-alone First Nations police services in Canada is backing a human rights complaint alleging Ottawa’s “deliberate” underfunding of policing in their communities amounts to discrimination. Jerel Swamp, who leads the First Nations Chiefs of Police Association, says after discussing the complaint launched by the Indigenous […]
A tribal council that represents five First Nations in northwestern Ontario says the first batch of local emergency medical responders from a new training program has graduated and will serve Pikangikum First Nation. The Independent First Nations Alliance says it created its own training program for emergency responders to help […]
A man making a film based on his experiences living in Northern Canada in the early 1970s has found an unusual way to work on his project while travelling in the region. Johnathan Zoesman converted a Tesla into a travelling film studio and drove the electric vehicle from his home […]
NEW YORK (AP) – An extraordinary moment in U.S. history will unfold in a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday: Former President Donald Trump, who faces multiple election-related investigations, will surrender and be arraigned on criminal charges stemming from 2016 hush money payments. The booking and appearance before Judge Juan Merchan should […]
