Rainy Lake water levels have exceeded those from last year—and are still rising. “The lake level is still rising but the rate of rise is slower,” Rick Walden, engineering advisor for the International Rainy Lake Board of Control, noted Monday morning. “It is six cm higher than the peak from […]
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Despite the fact there’s no fires currently burning in the Fort Frances District, Ministry of Natural Resources FireRanger crews have had a hectic schedule over the past few weeks. “After last week’s storms, we’ve been very busy,” said Matt Myers, the MNR’s fire management supervisor here. He noted FireRanger crews […]
Four more gates in the Rainy Lake dam were opened yesterday—two in the early afternoon and the other two in the late afternoon, the International Rainy Lake Board of Control announced. The two gates already had been opened earlier Thursday. The IRLBC authorized the opening of the four other gates […]
With July 1 only a little over two weeks away, “Fun in the Sun” organizers are looking to make this year’s Canada Day parade better than ever. “We’re always trying to make the parade bigger,” parade co-ordinator Dawn Booth said this morning. “We want to encourage businesses and service clubs […]
It didn’t take long for Shane Bliss to find himself behind a bench again. Bliss agreed to join the coaching staff of the Muskie boys’ hockey team for next season, it was announced Wednesday. “I’m very happy to be part of the Muskie program,” Bliss, 31, said Friday morning. “I’ve […]
All main highways will be opened soon, Rainy River and other communities have been downgraded from a state of emergency, and flood waters are receding as communities get back to normal. As reported in Thursday’s Daily Bulletin, Highway 71 to Kenora is now open to daytime traffic, with a detour […]
The Town of Rainy River lifted its state of emergency declaration Friday morning. Despite almost all the flood gates now open at the dam at Fort Frances, the water levels in have dropped by several inches since Wednesday. “Since 10:30 p.m. Thursday to 8:30 a.m. [Friday], the river has dropped […]
Municipal Affairs and Housing minister Chris Hodgson on Friday declared the entire Rainy River District a disaster area, making it eligible for funding under the Ontario Disaster Relief Assistance Program. The declaration covers the 10 municipalities and unorganized areas in the district, including Fort Frances, as well as the Township […]
Fort Frances Youth Soccer’s annual wind-up will go ahead as planned this Saturday, organizers said today. “There’s some deep wet spots on Fields 3 and 4 [the mini-fields by St. Francis School] but most of it looks good,” said FFYS vice-president John Pierce. He added there also were plenty of […]
Flood waters receded several feet overnight Wednesday on land at the base of the Town of Rainy River. Still, with word at least two more floodgates were to be opened today at the dam at Fort Frances, the town opted to mobilize hundreds of volunteers to fill and deploy sandbags. […]
The Northwestern Health Unit is advising all people not on municipal water to boil drinking water until their wells are tested. “We’ve been in touch with the Ministry of the Environment and all municipal water supplies are fine,” municipal and environmental health consultant Bill Limerick said Thursday morning. But Limerick […]
The Township of La Vallee followed Emo in asking the province to declare it a disaster area in response to two days of torrential rain that hammered the district earlier this week. Highways connecting the area to Dryden and Atikokan still were closed as of press time Thursday while Rainy […]
