Fifty teams left the Lake Despair shore bright and early last Saturday and Sunday in hopes of catching the “big one” (or rather, several big ones) as they competed in the first-annual “Castin’ for Cash” bass tournament hosted by Nell and Bill Godin of Lake Despair Lodge. And from all […]
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Now that the efforts of the Chamber of Commerce town beautification project can be seen from Central Avenue to the Fort Frances Cemetery, the committee is looking for the public’s support to keep its momentum going. The community will a chance to do that when a barbecue is held at […]
When you’re driving down Front Street by the Sorting Gap Marina later this week, you might have to look twice. A large 12’x16’ sign featuring a map of Rainy Lake will be standing next to the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship sign the bass committee erected last July. “The first […]
The fifth meeting of “The United Beef Club” was held at Anthony and Erica Boersma’s house on Monday, June 11 at 7 p.m. Club president Matt Neilson called the meeting to order and we recited the 4-H pledge. Then all the members said roll call, which was, “Name the breed […]
The Rainy River 4-H exchange club held a meeting July 3 at 8:30 a.m. at the Devlin municipal building. We had a great turnout for the meeting as we were finalizing arrangements for our departure on an exchange visit to La Belle Province. We were slated to land at Dorval […]
Despite the persistently feeble Canadian dollar, the number of U.S visitors flocking to this area for shopping and vacation bargains has dropped compared with this time last year, according to some local business owners. “I’m finding there’s a lot fewer tourists this summer,” Tom Pearson, owner of Camp Narrows Lodge […]
Bill Godin, owner of Lake Despair Lodge, said he had the pleasure of fishing with Mark Hopkins the day before his fatal boating accident last month on Footprint Lake. And as the inaugural “Castin’ for Cash” bass derby wrapped up on the grounds of the lodge Sunday evening, Godin said […]
Rebecca Dodd is hoping to get a good response for the Rainy River First Nation Watershed Program’s annual “Adopt-A-River.” “Basically, this program was designed to promote awareness and involvement of different groups in the maintenance of our watershed,” Dodd said Monday. “Surprisingly, there is a great deal of waste that […]
The Northwest Catholic District School Board will review its special education programming with a special report at its special meeting tonight at 7 p.m. at the board office (next to St. Francis School). “We’re requested by the Ministry of Education to list all the special education guidelines and services we […]
Construction will be hectic in Fort Frances later this summer after the Ministry of Transportation approved $747,000 in funding, including $213,000 for more improvements to King’s Highway here. Included in the information package received during last night’s regular council meeting was a letter to town clerk Glen Treftlin from Transportation […]
The Northwestern Health Unit posted Morley Beach as “unsafe for swimming” on Friday due to high bacterial counts found during routine sampling. “We sampled today [Monday] and the earliest we’ll know anything will be Wednesday,” said Bill Limerick, environmental health team leader with the health unit. “We’ll have a good […]
Cory Calder and David Woodgate of Fort Frances weighed in a 10-fish total of 21.03 pounds to capture the $5,000 first prize Sunday in the inaugral “Castin’ for Cash” live release bass derby on Lake Despair. Denis Barnard, defending champ of the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship finished in second […]
