Local News from Across the Rainy River District
The Fort Frances Senior Centre is now preparing to safely celebrate senior’s month in June, in coordination with the Town of Fort Frances. Irene Lang, board chair, wrote to council saying the centre is planning four events in June. The month will be kicked off on June 1 with an […]
Ten Executive members attended a virtual meeting of the Laverendrye General Hospital Auxiliary on April 12, 2021. The meeting was called to order at 1:00 pm. The Agenda, Minutes of Previous Meeting and Treasurer’s Report were accepted as distributed. A Thank You letter was received from Angeline Redford in gratitude […]
One local family is using their loss to help improve the experiences of others who find themselves relying on La Verendrye General Hospital. On April 14, the family of Todd Baker made a sizeable donation of $14,362.36 in Baker’s memory to the Riverside Foundation for Healthcare in order to help […]
It was long overdue, but last weekend, land at Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung was burned. As part of ongoing conservation efforts, a controlled prescribed burn of some of the historic site was undertaken in order to help keep the ecosystem healthy. The traditional burn is said to expose new nutrients to the soil […]
We are going to take a pause from featuring an individual cat this week to address a very important issue…..kittens. Spring is undoubtedly kitten season in the Rainy River District as it is throughout Canada and the northern United States. We are seeing a lot of local posts on Facebook […]
The day it first began may be lost to time (or more likely, just temporarily forgotten) but the Fort Frances Writer’s Group continues to run strong, through years of award-winning work, new members and even a worldwide pandemic. The long-running group still does what it always has; joins together like-minded […]
Being in the sports media gave one writer and broadcaster the opportunity to interview sports personalities he never imaged he’d even meet in places he never imagined he’d be. These will be his stories about their stories – or just about them – from the pages of his past, while […]
Hitting a few hole-in-ones at mini putt may look easy, but golf is a much more masterful sport, requiring more athletic skill than one would think. Christin Thomson formally co-owned the Dairy Queen with her sister, which had been a family business for over 60. After selling the business last […]
TORONTO — The Ontario government is providing eligible health care and other frontline workers with free emergency child care for school-aged children, starting Monday, April 19, 2021. The announcement was made following the province’s decision to move elementary and secondary students across the province to remote learning following the April […]
A volunteer walks along one of the back roads at Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung Historical Centre, rake in hand, ready to push back any small fires that might try to jump the road to another area that was not part of the centre’s prescribed burn that took place on Saturday. The burn serves […]
Officials in one of Ontario’s top COVID-19 hot spots are moving to temporarily close businesses with recent outbreaks of the virus in an effort to rein in surging case counts they said were fuelled by workplace spread. Peel Region said Tuesday its public health unit will issue an updated order […]
Currently, there are 49 active cases of COVID-19 in the Northwestern Health Unit region. Today we received reports of three new positive COVID-19 test results in the Fort Frances Health Hub region, two new positive COVID-19 test results in the Emo Health Hub region, two new positive COVID-19 test results […]
