Ontario Works finance people will be meeting with staff here next Tuesday to go over billing changes after the local office went four working days without being able to issue cheques earlier this month. A $100,000 loan from the province put the district’s welfare office back in business last Thursday […]
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Although the fire season doesn’t technically begin until April 1, the Emo Volunteer Fire Department had to be called last Wednesday to handle a grass fire that got out of control. Emo Fire Chief Rob Johnson said a farmer north of Emo was burning some grass off his property when […]
The committee of the whole spent two hours behind closed doors Monday night but Mayor Glenn Witherspoon assured no cuts were made to town personnel as councillors looked to find another $1 million in savings from the 1998 budget. At this stage of the budget process, it was a discussion […]
Could murals painted on the sides of buildings help draw tourists to this area? That’s something a local group is looking at in conjunction with a plan to divert east/west traffic off the Trans-Canada Highway and through Rainy River District. Rainy River Mayor Gord Armstrong, who’s spearheading the push to […]
Abitibi-Consolidated’s and Boise Cascade’s dams along the Rainy Lake-Namakan watershed are among those the International Joint Commission is warning may not be safe because they don’t have regular government inspections. And now it’s recommending more rigorous government standards be set, including regular on-site inspections by independent, qualified experts. But local […]
Abitibi-Consolidated here was fined $5,000 in provincial court Friday after pleading guilty to one count of discharging a contaminant into the natural environment that caused or was likely to cause an adverse effect. A joint submission between prosecutor Marlene Wilson and Abitibi counsel Dennis Mahony also agreed the mill would […]
The district’s welfare office is warning it may have to close because it doesn’t have the money to pay its March bills–much less make payments to social assistance recipients. That could leave some 40 individuals and families without cheques this month. And the Rainy River District Ontario Works said the […]
Federal funding for a full-time economic development office in Rainy River has been secured, giving the west end of the district an economic development officer once more. The announcement was made last week after local MP Bob Nault presented the Rainy River Future Development Corp. with more than $550,000. Part […]
Despite taking the expansion Grand Rapids Griffins to the Eastern Conference quarter-finals of the International Hockey League in their inaugural season, and leading the team to an almost guaranteed playoff berth this year, Dave Allison is now out of a job. The Fort Frances native was relieved of his coaching […]
As 125 athletes and countless other volunteers converged on Fort Frances on Saturday for the Ontario Region 8 Spring Games, it didn’t take long to notice these Games were special. Athletes from Atikokan, Dryden, Kenora, Thunder Bay, and Nipigon competed in five-pin bowling and swimming against their counterparts from Fort […]
The Fort Frances Minor Hockey Association board will soon be looking at the possibility of fielding a “AA” Midget team that would play an exhibition schedule with teams from Minnesota by as early as next season. The “AA” Midget team concept is the brainchild of Tom Koski, who said the […]
Jeff Savage scored four goals and added an assist to help pace the B•Macs Bantam “AA” rep team to a 7-1 exhibition win over the Northwestern “AAA” PeeWee all-star squad here Sunday. Ross Anderson, Scott Witherspoon, and Steve Niskala also scored in the win. Mike Bylawski, assisted by A.J. Tucker, […]
