Sis Wilson of Barwick cried tears of joy when she was crowned the 2002 Emo Fair Queen at the Emo/La Vallee Community Centre on Thursday night. The standing-room only crowd clapped wildly when 2001 Fair Queen Kelly Neilson put the crown on Wilson’s head. Krista Kellar was named First Princess […]
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Kenora OPP is investigating an accident which killed four people around 7 a.m. today on the Trans-Canada Highway about five km east of the Highway 71 junction. A fifth person was taken to Lake of the Woods District Hospital in Kenora, police said. The accident involved a transport truck and […]
Forget bunkers and trees, the weather may be public enemy number-one for the field coming in the annual Kitchen Creek Classic men’s golf tournament this weekend. Forecasts of rain this weekend—which may interrupt play in the two-day, 36-hole tourney—are keeping organizers of the 25th-annual event wary. “There’s nothing we can […]
Quiet forest fire activity in Fort Frances District has allowed the local Ministry of Natural Resources office to deploy more FireRanger crews to fight blazes in southwest Oregon. “We’ll be sending two additional fire crews and one more technician to the ‘Sour Biscuit’ fire Saturday,” said Matt Myers, the MNR’s […]
In a second such incident this week, a local resident was charged with failing to install a smoke alarm after a small house fire Wednesday evening. The Fort Frances Fire Department responded to a report of smoke billowing from the front part of a house on the 600 block of […]
Tonight could spell the end of a six-year dynasty. The Bulldogs—six-time defending Rainy River District Fastball League champs—face elimination tonight in the double-knockout playoffs here tonight as they face Hyatt’s Contracting. Game time is 6:30 p.m. at the Couchiching diamond. Also tonight, Big Grassy (2-14), who had lost 8-0 to […]
With a few more participants ready to paddle down Rainy River for a good cause, the second-annual canoeing fundraiser for the local United Native Friendship Centre’s youth centre is set to go Monday. “We actually had people call about it [since the article in last Thursday’s Daily Bulletin],” said co-organizer […]
Town council received an update on the downtown parking dilemma at Monday night’s regular meeting and is certain to hear some proposals in the near future, according to a report from Planning and Development executive committee secretary Rick Hallam. Following a meeting July 22 at which town council looked at […]
The 10-day Music Camp held at the Emo Legion was deemed a huge success. It was operated by local musician Renee Martin, assisted by Chantelle Spuzak, owner/operator of Dancemakers & Beauty Essentials in Fort Frances, and drama and music teacher Erin Bree Pierce. Some 22 students registered for the 10 […]
Statuesque and secretive, she sat silently as her life was recounted to an eager crowd. The mysteries of the Rainy Lake mermaid were revealed last Thursday night during an art show in her honour at the Fort Frances Museum, where, among other things, listeners learned she wasn’t as old as […]
There’s relief locally that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service offered an extension to Canadian students last Friday that will allow them to cross the border to attend part-time classes in the United States. “I see it as encouraging,” said Carol Grim, director of Public Information and Development at Rainy […]
Christin Thomson will have to fit another driver in her suitcase next week. The local golfer, bound for the U.S. college links this fall, captured her third Kitchen Creek Ladies Open title in four years—and a $400 driver—with a round of one-under par 73 on Saturday. “I’m glad I got […]
