They needed volunteers and Emo Toy Library and Resource Centre got them for their fall carnival, which was held Saturday afternoon at the Emo Legion. ETL co-ordinators Jennifer Miedema and April Simmons were quite pleased with the attendance, especially the kiddies, who enjoyed every minute of the event. There was […]
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Sarah Dhillion may be missed by her family in Australia on her 16th birthday, but hopefully the excitement of celebrating Hallowe’en will lighten the load. Sarah has never celebrated Hallowe’en as it is not an occasion marked in her country. But this past Sunday evening, she joined her new friends […]
The Christian Farmers’ Federation of Ontario wants to see farm safety net programs designed to compensate for long-term price declines in international markets. “There is every indication that international prices, especially for grains, will continue to decline in the face of low-cost production in Brazil and massive production subsidies in […]
Fall suppers certainly have been the order of the day of late. Chapple and Stratton had successful ones earlier this month and then on Sunday (Oct. 26), the Our Lady of the Way parish supper drew a good crowd. Compliments to the cooks—the roast beef was excellent, along with a […]
About a 140 people attended a celebration banquet last Friday evening at the newly-revamped Calvary Baptist Church to give thanks for the completion of the building project. It was that much more delightful as the Northwestern Ontario Baptist Association held its fall meeting here at Calvary Baptist, with each of […]
Two heliports opened in Rainy River and Emo on Monday morning. The projects started to come to light after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks made customs clearance for ambulances and their passengers that much more difficult in Rainy River. Dan McCormick, with the Rainy River District Social Services Board, […]
With fright night, a.k.a. Hallowe’en, only five days away, the local Leo Club has cooked up its own way of collecting treats for the spooky holiday. “Sight Night” is a program, sponsored by Lions Club International and Lenscrafters, that will see the collection of prescription and nonprescription glasses for distribution […]
Some 1,800 mail-in votes for next month’s municipal election already have been received at the Civic Centre, town clerk Glenn Treftlin reported this morning. “As of yesterday, we’ve received 1,462. But this morning’s mail just came in and it looks like there’s between 300-400,” he noted. “Today is the largest […]
A request from the Northern Action Group (NAG) to tighten security around the mail-in ballots that have come in for the Nov. 10 municipal election was shot down last night. Clerk Glenn Treftlin said he’s been doing everything by the book. “I would like to set the issue straight as […]
A potentially-disastrous situation at the Abitibi-Consolidated mill here Saturday afternoon was kept in check by some quick-thinking employees who teamed up to contain a fire that had broken out in the basement under the No. 7 paper machine. Acting Fire Chief Hugh McKinnon said the call came into the Fort […]
With the municipal election coming up Nov. 10, the Northern Action Group (NAG) is asking town council to take security measures for the mail-in ballots. In a letter to council, the local group has requested that all mailed-in ballots be held for security purposes either at the post office, the […]
Though the process has been less than speedy, high-speed Internet finally is coming to this area. The federal government announced Friday that Pwi-di-goozing Ne-yaa-zhing Advisory Services’ application for broadband infrastructure funding has been approved, along with 32 other projects across the country, including another three in Ontario. The local group […]
