With the annual Terry Fox Run coming up here Sept. 15, Pharmasave staff for a second year in a row are challenging any other business or organization to a fundraising showdown. Sabrina “Lightning” Stoessinger, Pharmasave employee and organizer of the “challenge campaign,” said Friday that staff there “would like to […]
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Pither’s Point, which had been declared “unsafe for swimming” Aug. 9 due to a high bacterial count in the water, was reopened over the weekend after two consecutive test results came back “clean” to the Northwestern Health Unit. Further samples taken from Sand Bay last Tuesday and Wednesday were sent […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Borderland Thunder acquired another big defenceman Thursday, shipping forward Cole Hayward and an undisclosed amount of cash to the Selkirk Steelers of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League for Chris Schaen. “It’s a deal that’s been in the works,” Thunder head coach Dave Allison said. “We’ve been concerned with David […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
While the opening of the driving range at the new Heron Landing golf course at Couchiching has been delayed until early fall, its project manager is optimistic the course itself will open according to plan. “[The June flooding] affected everybody. We’re just currently starting to do seeding here,” said Shane […]
