The decorations and photographs were up at the Emo Legion last Friday evening for the Centennial Country Sweetheart Dance. The Norlund Funtimers, featuring Elmer and Teresa Norlund and Evelyn Whalen, along with guest players Vince Sheppard and Romeo Duguay, provided the music that kept the dance floor busy all night. […]
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Librarian Shirley Sheppard, in her year-end report, said “another busy and hectic year has come and gone” at the Emo Public Library, including flooding, feasting, and famine. The famine was with government cutbacks while the flood last spring brought activities there, and at the toy library, to a standstill. This […]
It’s wasn’t a full dressing down but local 4-H leaders had their egos taken down a bit during the Rainy River District 4-H Association’s awards banquet Friday night in Emo. Leader Kim Jo Calder said there was “a lot of bickering” going on among some of the leaders–bickering she found […]
The reason why the Emo Centennial committee chose a steamship for its 100th anniversary logo is based very much on the history of the Rainy River District.
How would you portray what “home” is? The town or city where you grew up might come to mind, or perhaps the familiar dwelling you will head to after work today. No matter what images you drum up, the Heritage Canada Foundation wants us to rethink how closely our “homes” […]
The 20 contenders are set to take to the stage upstairs at Memorial Arena on Friday night to compete in the fifth-annual “Quest for the Best.” Seven singers–Alyson Booth, Heather Mihichuk, Debbie Connon, Garry Matthewson, Graham Matheson, Tara Hakala, and Marc Desforges–will be returning to the contest this year while […]
With tickets for Friday night’s “Quest for the Best” selling out literally within minutes of going on sale Monday morning, complaints started rolling in almost as quickly. In response to the outcry, “Quest” co-ordinator Pearl Pidlubny announced yesterday afternoon that Videon (Channel 9) would be broadcasting the event live from […]
Many people were shocked and saddened by an incident last Tuesday when seven puppies were found abandoned in a dumpster behind the 364 Store here. But the local “Friends of Animals” group sees the act as not only a tragedy but a wake-up call for people to start taking the […]
First-grader Josh Wilson was the guest of the honour at last night’s Rainy River District School Board meeting to show off his much improved reading skills. A student in Charleen Gustafson’s class at Donald Young School in Emo, Wilson was the first graduate from the “Reading Recovery” program started in […]
The Muskie hockey team, fresh off an impressive showing at a tournament in Winnipeg last weekend, are now gearing up for a stretch drive they hope will lead to an all-Ontario berth. Sitting atop NorWOSSA with a league-leading 11-2 record, the black-and-gold will face a tough test this Friday when […]
With Minor Hockey Week in full stride at Memorial Arena this week, the local association’s board of directors is enthusiastic that an already stable program here is only going to get better. Thanks, in large part, to the new indoor ice surface which should be under construction next door this […]
After cruising through the round-robin with a perfect 5-0 record and then downing Jeff McDonald (Port Arthur) 7-3 in the semi-finals, Tyler Bell’s Fort Frances rink needed just one more win to earn a berth to the Bantam mixed provincial playdowns in Mississauga. But it wasn’t to be. Instead, it […]
