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 […]
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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 […]
After putting out a call in early September and only getting three responses so far, the Town of Fort Frances needs more homeowners to participate in testing their water for lead. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown said at last night’s council meeting that under new provincial water regulations, the […]
The first-annual Rainy River District “Harvest Dinner” is set to go this Saturday (Oct. 13) at the Kitchen Creek Golf Club and tickets are still available for the extravagant feast, which will showcase local foods. “It’s going to be a really exciting evening,” enthused rural agriculture co-ordinator Jeannette Cawston. “And […]
The Rainy River Cattlemen’s Association saw more than 1,300 head of cattle move through its new and improved sales barn Saturday in Stratton. It was their annual fall calf sale and sales manager Clayton Teeple was really pleased with the final results. “I spoke to a number of buyers and […]
Local producers gathered at the Devlin Hall last Tuesday (Oct. 2) to participate in the “Quality Starts Here” workshop and “Vision for the Ontario Beef Industry” meeting put on by the Ontario Cattlemen’s Association. Ken McKinnon, president of the Rainy River Cattlemen’s Association, noted the session was both informative and […]
