The Fort Frances Aquanauts were led by some of their younger swimmers last weekend at the annual Kenora Invitational, with Meghan Hebert and Karli McKinnon both achieving best times in seven out of their eight races. Head coach Debbie Murray noted several other Aquanauts also nailed down personal bests at […]
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Heading into last night’s home opener against the Kenora Broncos, the Muskies wanted to send a message to the rest of the league. It was a message well received. The black-and-gold outplayed the Broncos in nearly every aspect of the game en route to a 10-3 romp before an appreciative […]
Submitting a grid drawing to their local fire department of a home escape plan in the event of a fire has paid off big time for two Barwick youths. Josh Whalen, 13, and Josh Zimmerman, six, were among 12 children from across the province who recently had their names picked […]
With just over five weeks left in the year, the fundraising drive for the new Rainy River Hospital has raised $144,500–nearly half of the $300,000 local share. As of Monday, 289 of the 595 bricks in the “Buy a brick, build it quick” campaign have been pledged at $500 each. […]
It will be a big kick-off for the Emo hospital fundraising campaign this Friday night at the Legion there, with all 200 tickets for the dinner sold out. Gerd O’Sullivan, chair of the fundraising committee, said Monday support for the event has been excellent so far. “Not just by buying […]
Atikokan may have landed the new Community Care Access Centre’s 310-INFO call centre but that, in turn, may help Fort Frances in its bid for a cell phone project for Northwestern Ontario. As first reported in last Thursday’s Daily Bulletin, Atikokan will became the base of operation for the 310-INFO […]
Bringing back an annual hereford sale in the district was just one objective outlined by the Rainy River Hereford Association’s new executive during its annual meeting Friday night at the Devlin Hall. Kim Jo Calder heads up the association as president, with Archie Wiersema as vice-president and Stacey Angus as […]
Tom and Wendy Judson say they’re sick of the hold up with their Echo Lakes Estates Ltd. subdivision project on the west end of Emo–and have filed notice of their intent to sue the Ministry of the Environment if the delay isn’t rectified immediately. The Judsons submitted a proposal for […]
Although inclement weather conditions cancelled Remembrance Day services in Emo, Devlin, Barwick, and Stratton, it did not stop the students at Donald Young School from holding their assembly last week. The introduction and welcome was given by grade six teacher Lucinda Meyers, with Diana Redford acting as emcee. “Good morning […]
The Ontario Clean Water Agency sent away another sample of Atikokan’s water last week to be tested for the Cryptosporidium parasite–and the results came back positive once again. “It was reconfirmed that Cryptosporidium was indeed in the water supply,” OCWA client services rep Peter Fox said yesterday morning. This time, […]
Four players from Rainy River District have been selected to the Sioux Hawks “AAA” PeeWee regional all-star team that will be vying for a berth in the provincial tournament next March. Jermaine Atatise, Andrew Wiersema, and Ian Lockman, who all play for the KC PeeWee “AA” rep team here, earned […]
Kathie Jackson’s Fort Frances rink also was ousted from the money on the women’s side of the Sun Life/Husky Oil Grand Prix of Curling last weekend, losing three of their four games. Opening with a pair of losses to Winnipeg rinks (9-6 to Janet Harvey and then 7-5 to Lori […]
