The newly-developed Emo Health Centre is truly a centre for health care services, and the public is invited to come out and see it firsthand at its grand opening next Wednesday (June 27) from 2-4 p.m. Wayne Woods, CEO of Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc., will be the master of […]
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Some district students will be spending part of their vacation in the classroom now that the Rainy River District School Board has confirmed summer school will be session here for a third-consecutive year. “We’ve got over 50 kids from across the system,” Superintendent of Education Terry Ellwood said Tuesday. “We […]
Following their native tradition of respecting the environment and hoping to help an endangered species, the Rainy River First Nation hatchery released about 800,000 sturgeon into the river after a brief traditional ceremony Friday.
National Aboriginal Day, and the signing of Treaty #3, will be remembered and celebrated at the Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung Historical Centre, just west of Barwick, on Thursday evening. “What we’re doing is from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. [on] Thursday. We’re having traditional dancing and drumming, and we’re gong to have some […]
The Town of Fort Frances, with the help of Emo and area First Nations, is still fighting to keep the jail here open. Mayor Glenn Witherspoon and Emo Reeve Russ Fortier are collaborating to put together a proposal for a new jail in Fort Frances after meeting with the minister […]
Jam21.Net owner Dave Ashworth said he’s in negotiations as he pursues high-speed Internet access for Fort Frances. “We’re definitely implementing it in August,” said Ashworth. “We’ve been having meetings over the last two or three weeks.” After negotiating a lease agreement with the Town of Fort Frances to install antennae […]
Thanks to parents and student organizers, there’s a safe alternative to celebrating high school graduation when the “chem-free” grad party goes Wednesday night at the Memorial Sports Centre. Slated to run from 10 p.m.-4 a.m., about 120 students are expected to fill the “52 Canadians Arena,” co-organizer Diane Noonan said […]
“Tickets are still for sale for the Joel Fafard concert tonight at 7:30 p.m.,” said tour de Fort spokesperson Wanda Botsford. “They are selling for $10, and can be picked up at la Place Rendez-Vous or the Fort Frances Public Library,” she added. The concert is being held at the […]
After two-and-a-half days spent cold and wet in the Northern Ontario bush, Dr. Michael Monture said it was the suffering and desperation he saw in the remote reserve of Pikangikum that prompted him to set out on a spiritual quest for help. While his motives were personal, the physician unwittingly […]
Our Tuesday Community Sail Night will start tomorrow (June 19) provided the weather and water levels co-operate. Anyone is welcome to come out sailing with us. Just show up at either the Rendez-Vous dock in Fort Frances or the dock in Ranier. Hopefully, there will be fair winds. In other […]
Rainy Lake has dropped by three cm since Friday to sit at 338.19 m (1,109.55 ft.) this morning. But the lake level still remains 50 cm (19.7 inches) above the International Joint Commission’s maximum rule curve for this date. With little precipitation over the weekend, Namakan also continues to drop, […]
After extending the deadline for entries until last Friday, “Quest for the Best” is now raring to go with a line-up of 19 acts vying for prizes under the big tent at the Sorting Gap Marina on July 25. “Everything’s going really well,” organizer Dawn Booth of the Fort Frances […]
