A trio of Fort Frances track and field athletes turned in stellar performances at the Special Olympics Ontario Provincial Summer Games in Niagara Falls over the weekend. Despite a gruelling trip that took them to Toronto’s Pearson Airport via Winnipeg, the local athletes brought home an impressive total of 10 […]
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Who says learning can’t be fun? Certainly not the kids who turned up for a bike rodeo at Couchiching on Tuesday. About 70 youngsters—some as young as four—turned out for the one-day skills and safety seminar conducted by the Treaty #3 Police on the outdoor hockey rink. In addition to […]
Fresh produce will be piled high on vendor tables at this Clover Valley Farmers’ Market. New potatoes, beans, carrots, beets, lettuces, and onions will be picked this Friday for the trip to the market early Saturday morning. The highlight at the market last Saturday was the scores of pails of […]
There is new exotic fish species running rampant these days and it has Ontario fish managers vexed and concerned. It is a troubling pest called the round goby. And it is now so abundant in some waters, particularly the Great Lakes, that natural resource agencies on both sides of the […]
The Ministry of Natural Resources reminds anglers and the baitfish industry it is illegal to use the round goby as bait in Ontario waters because of the significant negative impact they have. Gobies are voracious eaters of young fish and reproduce often, which can lead to a sharp drop in […]
Queen’s Park may be in recess for the summer, but that doesn’t mean everything has ground to a halt. Last Thursday, Culture minister Madeleine Meilleur made her first-ever trip to Northwestern Ontario, including Rainy River District, and she did not come empty-handed. After making a stop in Atikokan, where she […]
Last week it was Kenora. But if Queen’s Park does not move to ensure the long-term health of the province’s sagging forestry sector, other pulp and paper mills in the region could be next to shut their doors, warned Kenora-Rainy River MPP and NDP leader Howard Hampton. “Frankly, it’s not […]
The 2005 Emo Fall Fair later this month promises to be full of new events, plus all of our favourites. This year there will be a tractor pull, tractor race, and tractor balance following the parade on the Saturday. Perhaps you saw this three-part tractor contest at the thresher’s day […]
Elaine Niemi of Thunder Bay was the winner of the NASCAR/Busch tickets to Bristol, Tenn., as well as accommodations and $1,000 (U.S.) in spending money, in the Fun in the Sun raffle drawn last Thursday at La Place Rendez-Vous. Judy Perrault of Fort Frances won the second prize (an XM […]
The pressure was high on the race track as the WISSOTA Modifieds desperately tried to get their feature race in before the rain started Saturday night at the Emo Speedway. There were more cars on the track this past week, too, so starting up was a bit of an issue. […]
In a move Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP Ken Boshcoff billed as a “Northwest solution for Northwesterners,” the federal government last week pledged more than $1 million to the Township of Atikokan to help spur economic development there. Both Boshcoff and Andy Mitchell, the minister of state for FedNor, were in […]
Although attendance was down a bit and there were no special activities, the sixth-annual Chapple Day festivities last weekend proved to be a great time for those who attended. Since it’s inception in 1999, Chapple Days has become a regular mid-summer feature in Barwick and beyond. Rilla Race, who chairs […]
