Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Despite the gloomy weather throughout the day the rain stayed away to let our weekend warriors take to the track, and they had the remedy to the brisk and chilly winds – an evening of red hot racing action! As the clouds rolled out, the crowd began to fill the […]
The first task of the week for the team was to diagnose the hiccup in the transmission of the #80 car, which with the help of Garett Gamsby, driver of the #33 Emo Street Stock, we were able to diagnose the issue to one of two possibilities – either a […]
This week we spoke to Wissota Modified driver #44 Tyler Brown. What is your favourite track food? Definitely smokies. They don’t taste the same anywhere else! When did you start racing? I started racing in 2010 at the age of 20. Why did you start racing? The main reason was […]
SCAP’s convocation took place Friday, June 17 with six graduates: (left to right, top to bottom) Darryl Kelly, Markayla DeVries, Laura Dykstra, Sophie Winik, Joshua Peters, and Walter Dyck. Only half of the graduates attended SCAP until graduation — Dykstra fulfilled her high school requirements in December, while Peters and […]
Diane Hill had just celebrated her seventh birthday when she first arrived at the Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont., in November, 1963. “The first night there I was crying,” said Hill, a retired Mohawk languages teacher at Six Nations of the Grand River. “I wanted my mom. I […]
The staff of Holmlund Financial fired up he grill for a free community barbecue last Thursday. The lunch hour event took place in their parking lot, to collect free-will donations for KidSport. They raised $470 for the organization, which provides financial support to enable families to enroll kids in sports […]
An unlikely friendship between young learners from two Manitoba pre-schools 450 kilometres apart is being welcomed as a small act of reconciliation. Despite the distance between the two centres and their children’s developing literacy skills, Winnipeg’s Oak Street Nursery School and Headstart Misipawistik Cree Nation in Grand Rapids have found […]
An inquest into the deaths of three women killed by their former partner in rural eastern Ontario is hearing about the importance of effective information sharing in cases of intimate partner violence. Carol Culleton, 66, Nathalie Warmerdam, 48, and Anastasia Kuzyk, 36, were killed on their properties in the Ottawa […]
Parks Canada is asking motorists to slow down and watch for wildlife after three grizzly bears were struck and killed in Jasper and Yoho national parks earlier this month. The agency said two bears — a female and a male — died on the Trans-Canada Highway through Yoho National Park […]
Polish and Ukraine government officials say they plan to put on public display in Warsaw damaged or burnt-out Russian tanks and armored vehicles captured by Ukrainian forces during the war. The head of the Polish prime minister’s office, Michal Dworczyk, said the idea is to highlight Russian “atrocities” and the […]
Charitable giving in the United States reached a record $485 billion in 2021, though the increase did not keep pace with inflation, according to a report Tuesday offering a comprehensive look at American philanthropy. The Giving USA report says donations in 2021 were 4% higher than the record-setting $466 billion […]
A judge on Tuesday rescheduled the state trial for two former Minneapolis police officers in George Floyd’s killing to Oct. 24 to resolve dueling requests for a new trial date. The state sought to start it as soon as this summer while a defense lawyer asked to delay it to […]
