Submitted Jeff Gustafson and his pals with a moose they harvested last week in Northwest Ontario.

Ken Kellar Joe Belanger led the Rainy Lake Community Orchestra through a selection of holiday songs during the ensemble’s free concert at the Fort Frances Public Library last night. The festive concert drew a large crowd to the library to listen and enjoy. Refreshments were provided by the Friends of […]

Students from St. Francis School showed off some of the items they collected for the Fort Frances Warming Centre as part of their “There’s Room at the Inn” outreach project on Friday. The project ran in conjunction with Advent and students donated a wide range of items for the shelter […]

Diane Maxey’s Christmas Choraliers took to the stage at the Townshend Theatre on Sunday to perform their selection of Christmas Anthems for the final time this season. The performance featured a number of soloists, a goodwill offering and bake sale in order to help support the choir in the future […]

Students from J.W. Walker turned themselves into dancing, glowing stick figures for a fun Christmas song medley during a rehearsal for their Christmas concert at the Townshend Theatre on Monday afternoon. As schools across the district hurtle towards the holiday break, many will be having Christmas concerts, presentations or other […]

Students from Mme. Gushulak’s Grade 2 French Immersion class at St. Michael’s School performed a song for their Christmas concert rehearsal yesterday afternoon. – Ken Kellar photo

Ken Desjardins helped his grandson, Carter, colour in a craft at the Emo Public Library on Saturday during “Holly Daze.” The library hosted a book sale and ran kids activities in conjunction with other events happening throughout Emo. -Sam Odrowski photo

Grade 12 student Jacy Gagne showed off what she learned during her co-op placement at the Fort Frances Dental Centre during the high school’s “Co-op Display Day” that was held in the cafeteria on Thursday. She spoke to students and staff about her experience observing procedures and learning about dental […]

Above, John Malgo, left, Linda Hamilton, Coun. John McTaggart, Shannon Schmidt, OPP Sgt. Ann McEwen, Gage Mitchell, Grady Holden and OPP Insp. Nathan Schmidt manned the volunteer lines at Walmart for the annual “Stuff-A-Cruiser” event to collect donations of non-perishable food items for area food banks and the Salvation army. […]

Three-year-old Axle Paterson couldn’t help but smile as he got his picture taken with Santa and told him what he wanted for Christmas this year at the Emo Arena during “Holly Daze” on Saturday. Maverick Judson of MJ Interactive Photography was on hand all afternoon to take photos of youngsters […]

Submitted The Caf Co. manager Heather Calder, left, CICE students Andrew Yerxa, Carrie Jolicoeur and Jacob Vandermeer, and NCDS executive director Nicke Paddock showed off the smoothies the students made as part of a collaboration between the two groups. The CICE students learned about food preparation and safety from the […]

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Treaty Three Police Service (T3PS) acting Sgt. Dylan Simard, left, volunteer Christine Jourdain, and T3PS Const. Dylan McGinnis collected donations for “Stuff-a-Cruiser” outside of Cloverleaf Grocery in Emo on Saturday. Volunteers across the district gave their time Saturday to accept donations from shoppers which will help bolster district food banks […]