Students at Donald Young School in Emo are beginning the start of the Christmas season by learning about giving and sharing with others less fortunate than themselves through two particular programs—filling Christmas shoeboxes and collecting money for World Vision. “I had done it a few years with different groups and […]
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Last week’s municipal elections resulted in new council members in many cases. As well, many agriculture organizations hold their annual meetings at this time of year. Here are five best practices for new board or committee members (the information is from Donald G. Evans, president of the board of the […]
The second-annual “Coffee, Tea, and Melody” event held at Knox United Church in Emo on Saturday evening was deemed a success by organizers. “We had an excellent turnout,” said Joyce Meyers. “There was an excellent donation of items and good music.” “People from across the district came out to support […]
Emo resident Carl Cates spent the last 44 years as a school bus driver here in Rainy River District. And while he decided it was time to retire, he noted he always enjoyed the job. “It’s been good over the years—I’m going to miss it,” he remarked. “I got to […]
FORT FRANCES—With the Ministry of Education having designated three of its schools as potentially “prohibitive to repair” (PTR), the Rainy River District School Board is moving forward with the PTR process and will be submitting a business case to the ministry proposing the consolidation of Robert Moore and F.H. Huffman […]
Voyageurs National Park’s Rainy Lake Visitor Center will be closed tomorrow (Nov. 23) for Thanksgiving Day. It will be open Friday, Nov. 24 through Sunday, Nov. 26 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Visitors are invited to come to the visitor center over the weekend to view exhibits, watch the park film, […]
FORT FRANCES—District residents now will have another option when it comes to preparations of a lost loved one with Rainy River Cremation Services being available at Green Larsen Mortuary over in International Falls, Mn. Previously, if cremation was selected as the final means of disposition, the body would be sent […]
The winners of Ontario’s fifth-annual Secondary School Business Plan Competition were announced Saturday during simultaneous ceremonies in North Bay, Cornwall, Burlington, and London. Brandon Olson of Emo was crowned the regional winner from Northern Ontario as well as the first runner-up in the provincial competition, earning $2,000. Olson’s proposed business […]
Premier Dalton McGuinty was in Thunder Bay on Monday to unveil an energy rebate plan for northern pulp and paper mills, but the response in the north has been lukewarm at best. “The solution that they announced today is much too little and much too late,” Ontario NDP leader and […]
Though heavily involved in volunteering with everything from the day hospital and chemotherapy unit at La Verendrye Hospital to St. John’s Anglican Church and the Canadian Cancer Society, June Keddie never expected to be named the 2006 “Citizen of the Year.” So when she got the phone call from the […]
The local Business Improvement Association will be holding the 49th-annual “Parade of Lights” this Saturday (Nov. 25) and this year’s holiday event is shaping up to be one of the best of late. “I think we’ll get a good turnout and it will be a lot of fun this year,” […]
The “Old Bags Lunch” originally scheduled for Sept. 30 now will be held in the spring. Joan Allison, with the special events committee for the Riverside Foundation for Health Care, noted a suitable date could not be secured before Christmas and therefore it would be held in the spring. Stay […]
