The Calvinette GEMS’ held their achievement evening Tuesday at the Emo Christian Reformed Church. With pianist Cora Van Smeerdyk at the keyboard, the procession commenced. The girls, carrying colourful balloons, marched to their seats, each dressed in white/blue apparel with blue kerchiefs containing achievement badges they have earned during their […]
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Construction on the new Rainy River hospital could begin in a few weeks, with the Ministry of Health authorizing Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc. here to sign a contract. Riverside chairman Pat Giles said they received the go-ahead notice from the ministry on Friday, just nine days after the tenders […]
Piles of red tape have been removed to allow Manitoba beef farmers “in-transit” access between Warroad and Baudette so they can re-export their cattle to the States through Rainy River’s designated port of entry while both ones in Manitoba are closed for repairs. What has local beef farmers so steamed […]
The Northwest Catholic District School Board has announced the first round of casualties from the ministry’s new funding model, declaring 4.75 teaching positions as surplus. The decision was made at Saturday’s regular board meeting in Dryden, during which the 1998-99 preliminary budget, which predicted a $117,000 shortfall, was presented to […]
The Muskie football team and its Touchdown booster club plan to make renovations to Westfort field beginning in September. The plans, though still in the infant stage, include installing a new water irrigation system and building a storage facility for the players’ equipment. Construction of a new press box and […]
For the second year in a row, the Fort High athletic budget will not suffer any cuts to its program. And that’s good news to FFHS athletic director Bob Grynol, who said the program is now in a stable situation heading into the 1998-99 school year. “We don’t anticipate a […]
Kitchen Creek will host its second-annual “Demo Day” this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., featuring sales reps from the top manufacturers in the game, including Taylor Made, Calloway, and Titliest. Workum said 300 golfers took in last year’s one-day event but expected that number to increase to as […]
Although the Aquanauts won’t know exactly where they finished at the Division III team championships in Etobicoke last week for a while yet, they do know they performed phenomenally well on an individual basis. In fact, the 23 Aquanauts who went clocked 72 out of a possible 115 best times […]
Due to the vast distance teams in NorWOSSA must travel for their games, students on the various Muskie squads miss a significant amount of class time during the year. Reducing the time high school athletes spend out of the classroom was one of the main topics up for discussion at […]
The town should know in another week if a double-rink ice surface can be built here for $4.9 million. LM Architects of Winnipeg informed the town last Thursday that they would be meeting soon with Ernst Hansch Construction, the company which built the Dakota Complex in Winnipeg. That facility, featuring […]
A pair of Muskie cheerleaders put an emphatic end to another season earlier this month, performing on a cruise ship that took them to the Cayman Islands. While the Caribbean is a far cry from their usual surroundings inside the confines of gymnasiums in Northwestern Ontario and Manitoba, Melissa Hagen […]
Area tourists camp owners were left pondering how changes coming down from government would effect how they run their businesses in the future. At last Thursday’s meeting of the North Western Ontario Tourism Association (NWOTA) in Nestor Falls, those on hand wrestled with a multitude of changes on everything from […]
