The Emo Family Resource Program currently is selling tickets on a child’s art desk. It is on display at Gillons’ Insurance office on Front Street in Emo. Tickets cost $2 each or three for $5, which are available at the centre during regular operating hours. • • • The Township of Emo […]
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The fifth-annual Summer Science Camp held at Manitou Rapids once again has lived up to its billing, according to event organizers. The four-day program allows kids from Rainy River First Nations to get an up close and personal look at how science works—and how it affects our daily lives. About […]
They’ve met only once, but the recently-formed “Border Sister Cities Task Force” is wasting no time tackling a big issue. By virtue of an invitation from International Falls Mayor Shawn Mason, Fort Frances Mayor Dan Onichuk will be part of a group meeting with Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman this coming […]
“We care.” That’s the message the City of Dryden is hoping to send with its ongoing campaign to bring attention to the plight of Northern Ontario’s forestry sector. Two weeks ago, city officials organized a town hall-style meeting to address growing concerns about the health of the industry, and have […]
A mere 48 hours after Abitibi-Consolidated announced plans to halt operations at its mill in Kenora in October, Mayor David Canfield had a simple message for his counterparts across Northwestern Ontario. “Give us some support, that’s what we need,” the mayor said from his office Friday morning. After all, the […]
Although it has been a fixture on their summer schedule since 2000, no United Native Friendship Centre youth group will be paddling from Fort Frances to Rainy River this year as they usually do in mid-August. But Ryan McMahon, the program co-ordinator for the UNFC’s Urban Multipurpose Multicultural Youth Centre […]
There is a new trend in agriculture sweeping across Ontario—and Rainy River District soon will be part of it. At the Emo agricultural research station’s annual open house last Wednesday evening and the farm tour the following day, the theme was organic farming. And judging by results in other parts […]
Ever since he was named head coach for the newest American Hockey League team in the form of the Des Moines Stars a few months ago, every day has felt like Christmas for Dave Allison. “Well, it’s been like Boxing Day this past week, but this is Christmas,” said Allison. […]
By the time you read this, Alex Parent already will have arrived in Toronto, where he will spend a couple of days practising with Team Ontario before the Canada Games get underway Saturday in Regina, Sask. “I’m really looking forward to it,” said Parent, 16. “Pretty excited, but not really […]
They can thank Hiroshi Yamauchi and Bill Gates for their consistent placings at the Emo Speedway. Those two big wigs essentially are the inventors of obesity, as Yamauchi is the maker of Nintendo while Gates came up with the XBox, but video games only have inflated the minds of Kendal […]
Like all hockey players growing up, Greg Beller dreamed of playing in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final and racing end-to-end to notch the game-winning goal. “I’ve always dreamed of that,” he said. On Saturday, that dream got one step closer to becoming a reality for the 18-year-old Rainy […]
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