“It was a tremendous way to kick off SummerActive 2001.” That was Elaine Caron’s reaction when recalling the large turnout on hand early Friday morning to take part in the Family Fun Walk at Robert Moore School here. “We had over 170 students and parents participate in the walk,” said […]
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“Warp 9” is going full speed ahead for a mid-summer opening. Funding has been assembled, plans drawn up, and construction is in full tilt for the new night club in the old Royal Theatre on Scott Street. “I saw the building and it sparked my curiosity. Really the building picked […]
The site of a fatal tanker-truck crash on Highway 502 at the Crowrock bridge last Wednesday afternoon is now clear after crews cleaned up the spilled tall oil cargo and removed the vehicle. John Barr, supervisor for the Ministry of the Environment in Kenora, said workers finished cleaning up the […]
Rainy Lake is still inching closer to “emergency” levels as defined by the International Joint Commission but there is little reason at this point for anyone to be concerned about flooding or damage. The lake level Wednesday morning was measured at 337.7 m (1,107.94 ft.)–a mere five cm (two inches) […]
While some district patients travel three times a week to Thunder Bay for hemodialysis treatments, others instead have had to leave family and friends to move to the city to live. One such patient, Ronald Jewett, got a first-hand look Monday at his opportunity to move back to Fort Frances […]
Rainy River First Nation is still assessing potential damage this week after a leak of untreated wastewater from the Abitibi-Consolidated kraft mill here early last week reached sturgeon spawning grounds downstream. In a press release issued last Wednesday (May 9), the band said the spawning grounds, which are used for […]
While student enrolment is projected to drop here next year, the Rainy River District School Board will not have to cut any teachers like the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board in Kenora may have to do. “We’re looking at an enrolment drop of 100 elementary students and 35 secondary students,” Warren […]
Ministry of Natural Resources firefighters only have had to respond to a pair of grass fires in the Fort Frances District since the fire season officially began April 1. “Well, so far things have been very quiet,” said Larry Brant, sector response leader at the Fort Frances fire headquarters. “It […]
Town administration has added its voice to those seeking faster, more reliable Internet service here. Darryl Allan, the town’s manager of administration and finance, echoed complaints of Internet service providers (ISPs) and the local business community that Internet access–through Bell Canada–is too slow and unreliable. “The concerns businesses have in […]
Grade three and six students across the district once again are being tested on their math, reading, and writing skills this week and next. While last year’s results saw some local scores both above and below provincial averages, the Rainy River District School Board has made a diverse effort to […]
With many OPP officers retiring in the next three to five years, recruiting officer Sgt. Darryl Wilson is hoping to generate some interest here when he holds two information sessions Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. “Almost every detachment in the region has a vacancy or two ongoing,” he said Monday […]
According to a local lawyer, purchasing the international bridge here is the best way to prevent increasing tolls and other problems. “I hear through the grapevine that the new Customs facility may be bogged down for a period of time in federal bureaucracy,” Lawrence G. Phillips wrote in a letter […]
