More than two weeks after torrential rains hit the district, the impact is still being felt. Couchiching First Nation ordered 6,000 sandbags from the Ministry of Transportation to deal with rising levels on Rainy Lake. Several homes there are in danger of flooding, with summer students having been enlisted to […]
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The Rainy River District School Board is expected to pass its budget for the 2002-03 school year at a special meeting Wednesday night. But to keep the budget balanced, trustees will withdraw almost $200,000 from reserve funds. Laura Mills, chief financial officer for the board, said expenditures for salaries, benefits, […]
After Wednesday, town residents can put away their “Blue Boxes” for the next two months or so as the contract with the Northwest Ontario Recycling Association expires June 30—and no carrier has been found to take over the service. “We’re trying to find an agreement with another carrier. The latest […]
The Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing’s disaster relief office won’t be open here until Wednesday, but claim forms are now available on-line. These forms, provided so local residents can apply for financial aid under the Ontario Disaster Relief Assistance Program (ODRAP), can be found at www.mah.gov.on.ca/forms/odrap-e.pdf You are eligible […]
The water level on Rainy Lake is inching higher by the day as heavy rains continue to fall. “It’s still going up,” Abitibi-Consolidated spokesman Gary Rogozinski said Monday morning. The lake was measured at 338.469 m (1,110.55 ft) as of 6 a.m. Monday, an increase of two cm (8/10ths of […]
Council will vote whether to authorize a special levy and collection of taxes from Business Improvement Area members at Monday night’s regular meeting here. During their budget process, the BIA board determined about $45,000 is required for BIA activity to continue this year, said BIA chair Ted DeBenetti. “We’ve been […]
The second-annual “Relay for Life” did it again—raising $73,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society. Last year’s inaugural event raised $75,000 for cancer research and treatment programs, and the more than 400 volunteers on 34 teams demonstrated Friday night how local residents continually rally to the cause. “I’m really happy. We […]
Anyone who may have lost a canoe on Rainy Lake during last week’s storms can contact Couchiching First Nation police as two have been recovered in the past week. “While on marine patrol, we found some people fishing that had found a canoe in the Five-Mile dock area,” Sgt. Ernie […]
The Fort Frances Archers Club is pointing in the right direction for this weekend’s eighth-annual 3-D spring competition at the local sportsmen’s club’s property at Frog Creek. “It’s a pretty popular event,” said co-organizer Ben Wiersema, who expects upwards of 40 archers from here, Kenora, Dryden, Thunder Bay, and International […]
A new face will be heading up the local campus of Confederation College as current manager Don Lovisa is re-locating to Thunder Bay. Lovisa has accepted the position of director of the School of Access and Literacy at Confederation College, and is expected to move there in August. His new […]
Following the declaration of Rainy River District as a disaster area last Friday, the Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs rep is setting up a claims office in Fort Frances, which should be open by next Wednesday. “We’ll be getting further information out to the public as soon as possible,” […]
Storms still are playing havoc with work crews scrambling to re-open Highway 11 to Atikokan, which has been closed for the past 10 days due to a washout at Price Creek. “As a result of the severe lightning storm that entered the Price Creek area early [Wednesday] evening, all work […]
