Those questioning the intensity of the young Sabres-Ice Dogs rivalry were silenced last night when an unprecedented nine fights broke out in the last minute of a 4-2 loss by the Fort Frances Jr. Sabres at the hands of the Dryden Ice Dogs. The single-game series—which made up the fourth […]
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< *c>Grade 4 girls 1. Morgan Haw (Sturgeon Creek) 2. Claire Hyatt (St. Francis) 3. Ashley Croswell (Sturgeon Creek) < *c>Grade 4 boys 1. Hunter Neilson (Sturgeon Creek) 2. Nicholas Veldhuisen (SCAP) 3. Aaron Short (Rainy River) < *c>Grade 5 girls 1. Jennifer Hammond (Nestor Falls) 2. Emmy Arsenault (Riverview-Dryden) […]
The Muskie senior court teams are reeling following a pair of convincing losses to the visiting Dryden Eagles yesterday. The senior boys’ volleyball team was swept for the third time in three tries this season, falling 25-13, 25-14, and 25-20. “Technically, we’ve got some things to work on,” Muskie head […]
There will be a planned power interruption to 3,762 Hydro One customers from the Fort Frances town boundary west to Rainy River this Sunday (Oct. 14) from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. This includes the communities of La Vallee, Devlin, Emo, Chapple, Barwick, Morley, Pinewood, Dawson, Sleeman, and Rainy River. This interruption […]
This year’s “Luncheon of Hope” is set for Saturday, Oct. 20 at La Place Rendez-Vous. Tickets cost $25 each, and are on sale now at Pharmasave, Shoppers Drug Mart, Emo Health Centre, Rainy River Health Centre, and La Verendrye Hospital. The Rainy River District Breast Health Network is pleased to […]
The Riverside Foundation for Health Care is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a district-wide shindig on Saturday, Nov. 3 at the Emo Legion starting at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $10 each, and include chili and dawgs, foot-stompin’ fun and games, and great entertainment. Foundation director Teresa Hazel commented on its […]
The OPP and Crime Stoppers need your extra attention to the following unsolved crime. Sometime between midnight and 3 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 28 of this year, someone illegally entered the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service detachment situated on the Fort Severn First Nation in the far remote north of our region. […]
Marion O’Connor and I (Erin Devlin) are in our third year of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing collaborative program in Fort Frances. We also currently are in our mental health placement at the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) in Fort Frances. This has been a great experience for us […]
The Muskie football team headed for Kenora on Friday morning hopeful but came back with the same old, same old after a 33-7 loss to the host Broncos. “We played three quarters of a game, so we are improving,” Muskie head coach Vince Gouin noted wryly. It was all Kenora […]
The local 908 Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron has begun a new year—and is looking for new recruits. And if anyone ever needed examples of what heights air cadets can soar to, they need not look further than flight sergeants Ryan Wood and Jordan Manty. At training camps over the […]
While Robert Moore School has been offering an instrumental music program for many years, parents and teachers at J.W. Walker School agreed it finally was time they extended the same opportunity to their students. Principal Bill Daley noted they felt it was important for the school to offer an instrumental […]
There’s no doubt the district deserves the title of a “Safe Community” after the Rainy River Valley Safety Coalition scored a perfect 20 out of 20 last week on the first National Report Card from Safe Communities Canada. “I think it’s wonderful. We’re just ecstatic,” RRVSC chair Grace Silander enthused […]
