Local News from Across the Rainy River District
The West Rainy River District Lions Club (WRRD Lions Club) generously made a donation to Rainy River and Emo Hospitals plus Rainycrest Long Term Care. The funds were raised at the WRRD Lions Hunters Supper in Stratton this past fall. Each facility received memory pillows, toss games, plumbers pipe kit […]
A warm welcome to Baby Saylor-Lynn! Riverside Health Care is happy to announce the first baby born in 2025 at La Verendrye General Hospital – a baby girl! Baby Saylor-Lynn made her debut on January 1, 2025, at 3:45 p.m., becoming the first member of Generation Beta born in the […]
Sweet Cinnamon was just one of the Christmas miracles which took place over the holidays, thanks to the work of Best for Kitty. The local cat rescue took Cinnamon and her sister Clove – dubbed the Spice Girls – off the streets, where they were living at just eight weeks […]
Music, cake and a visit from Santa Claus were all on the bill for the annual Christmas Partyfor the residents of Rainycrest hosted by the Rainycrest Auxiliary, on December 20. Santa ar-rived bearing gifts, which were generously supplied through the Tree of Giving program, wheremembers of the public selected an […]
Tirzah Baird spotted this rooftop visitor on 6th Street. Snowy owls are native to the arctic tundra, but fly south for the winter months. Unlike other owls, snowy owls are active during the day, when they hunt for small prey, like mammals and birds. They also eat carrion, when they […]
The Cridland family and volunteers load trays at the Flint House restaurant, to create hundreds of ready-made holiday meals for the Community Christmas Dinner this past Christmas Eve, Tuesday, December 24, 2024. The Cridland family, along with a plethora of helpers, have been preparing food for the take-out and delivery […]
Blake Carlson of Sight & Sound in downtown Fort Frances pulled the first winning ticket for the Kiwanis Club’s 2025 Trip of the Month draw this morning. Mike and Terri Mihichuk are the winners of a Costa Rica – Nature’s Paradise trip, valued at $4,200.00. Next month’s draw is for […]
The Cridland family and volunteers take a quick break in a busy morning at the Flint House restaurant to fit in a group photo before getting on with the big task of seeing hundreds of ready-made holiday meals out the doors for the Community Christmas Dinner this past Christmas Eve, […]
This info-graphic has been provided by the Northwestern Health Unit to gauge the risk of frostbite under different wind and temperature conditions. Get outside and have fun this winter – but keep safe!
Voyageurs National Park shared a photo of a recent ice core sample from Rainy Lake’s Black Bay, showing seven inches of mostly slush ice, which they warn is much weaker than the one inch of clear ice at the bottom, and why they have not yet opened the lakes for […]
Bill Morrison is the town of Fort Frances’ newest councillor following his appointment at a special meeting of council held on Tuesday, December 17, 2024. Williams was one of six candidates who made presentations to council in a bid for the vacant seat.
Crews continue to work on the demolition and removal of the White Pine Inn located in east Fort Frances early this morning, Thursday, December 19, 2024. The century-old building has been closed since the early 2010s.
