The provincial government has announced an increase in funding for child care in the hopes of creating 4,000 additional subsidized spaces across the province. The Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board learned earlier this week that it would be receiving an increase in annual funding, as well as some […]
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The family of the late Rick Pearson has worked to turn a sad event into a positive initiative, to help raise money for kidney disease. The second-annual Rick Pearson Memorial Golf Tournament will be taking place at Kitchen Creek Golf Course this Monday (Aug. 2). The idea for the golf […]
Having his team’s first day weight disqualified, felt like being slapped in the face and stabbed in the back, said Joe Prichett. Prichett and his partner Hiram Archibald, both of Sioux Narrows, had their 16.08 pound bag disqualified in the first day of the 10th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship […]
Nearly two dozen kids came out to the Fort Frances Public Library yesterday to participate in a day of chess playing, and every one of them went home a winner. John Rutherford, also known as “The Chess Guy,” came out to play simuls with the kids, and to find qualifiers […]
Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship volunteer Brian Hebert has an uncanny ability of guessing the weights of the angler’s baskets before they go up on stage. Frankly, it’s a little creepy. With a mere glance he makes the call—and 90 percent of the time he gets it within one or […]
Amos Brielmann is a gambler. Actually, he is a farmer, which, by definition, makes him a gambler. Like everyone in the beef industry, he is struggling to overcome the devastating fallout from the BSE crisis in Canada, but at the same time, he is looking ahead. Yesterday, the Rainy River […]
They kept on slipping. Like being in quicksand, they fell lower and lower in the standings. From 21st after the first day, to 29th after the second. Guy Johnston and Doug Wright, both of Fort Frances, couldn’t explain it. They had found the fish during their pre-fishing and now they […]
The night before the final day of the 10th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, in an overcrowded room at the Rainbow Motel, it was said and it was heard. The top two teams in John Guzej and Ted Stewner and James and Bill Lindner, were joined by the 10th place […]
Rainycrest Home for the Aged’s board of management is looking into options to reduce operational costs at the long-term care facility, including the possibility of privatization. “The basic problem is that our expenses continue to increase and we can’t continue to proceed in that direction,” said board chair Dennis Brown. […]
Daniel and Ron Lindner (Team #128) hadn’t even begun fishing on Day One of the tournament when they hit a rock going through a narrow pass. “We hit a rock that we knew was there, bent the whole propeller, broke half the skag off. Pretty much broke the lower unit,” […]
This is not a story, but rather a tale. A tale of four men who understand each other better than they know themselves. Four fishermen intertwined by a tournament that has brought triumph to few and tragedy to many. They are on polar ends of the spectrum—one group enjoying the […]
For their first time as partners in a tournament they did okay. In journalism circles, this is what we call an understatement. Kirk and Gene Boyer, who have fished non-competitively a countless number of times together since childhood and have been in numerous tournaments with other partners, had never competed […]
