A chance gust of wind is being blamed for causing a float plane to overturn on Lakeland Bay just east of here a week ago Saturday, according to a report from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. It also is known now that the mishap occurred after the pilot aborted […]
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Seventeen riders are gathering pledges this week as the Northwestern Ontario Therapeutic Riding Association gears up for its third-annual “Freedom Ride” on Saturday. The ride is slated to start at 1 p.m. (or at the same time Sunday if it’s raining). But instead of making the trip to Wasaw Lake […]
A community group has been struck to come up with the $500,000 needed to make the Emo Health Centre ready for the 12 long-term care beds slated to transfer there from Rainycrest Home for the Aged next April 1. At a meeting attended by some 15 catchment area reps last […]
It’s too early to make an accurate count but it’s estimated more than 100,000 fry have safely hatched and started feeding at the Manitou Rapids sturgeon hatchery. “It’s hard to tell because we haven’t inventoried them yet,” aquaculture technician Joe Hunter said Monday, adding they had to wait until the […]
There are some basic rules to follow when it comes to attending the annual fish fry hosted by the Rainy River First Nation. Rule one: don’t worry about coming too early or too late because there really is no such thing. People start filtering about the roundhouse just a few […]
Several hundred people were on hand Friday afternoon as Attorney General Charles Harnick presented Rainy River First Nations Chief Jim Leonard with a cheque for $1.4 million to continue work on the Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung Mounds Historical Centre. Chief Leonard said the funding reiterated the province’s commitment to the Rainy River First […]
Saturday was a bad day for flying across Northwestern Ontario, with three other plane accidents happening in the area. Two of the three occurred near Atikokan, including one that involved a privately-owned Cessna 180 trying to take off from Steep Rock Lake just before noon. The Transportation Safety Board of […]
Emo and the surrounding area is being asked to come up with more than $500,000 to help upgrade the hospital there to handle the 12 long-term care beds slated to be transferred from Rainycrest Home for the Aged in Fort Frances next April 1. Representatives from the surrounding townships, local […]
Patrons at the Red Dog Inn coffee shop got the surprise of their lives Friday night when hail smashed through the skylight overhead as they were dining.
It wasn’t a stampede crowd at the Royal Canadian Legion here Friday night but it was enough to raise the last bit of money needed to bring 11 children to Rainy River District from Belarus Susan Affleck, local team leader for the Canadian Relief Fund for Chernobyl Victims in Belarus, […]
Ask a museum curator what was significant about May 18 and the answer may come as a surprise. May 18 wasn’t just Victoria Day here in Canada, it also happened to be International Museum’s Day–set aside in recognition of the important role museums play in the collection and preservation of […]
It could be the biggest “fun”-draiser the town has ever seen, with the emphasis definitely on fun. That is how Keith Milne, “Big Bike” co-ordinator for Northwestern Ontario, described the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s fundraiser that’s rolling into town for the first time June 22. And Milne didn’t think they’d […]
