Jamie Mountain Jamie Spencer had her eyes on the prize as she got ready to elevate for a jump shot over a Kenora Broncos’ defender during the fourth quarter of the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team’s 39-15 win in NorWOSSA action yesterday at Fort High. Spencer scored six points to […]
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Jamie Mountain Ty Stafford, left, Kaleb Richards, Sebastian Anderson, and Wyatt Richards were grilling and serving up hotdogs for all their hungry patrons during the Muskie football team’s annual fundraising barbecue on Saturday afternoon in front of Safeway here. All proceeds went to helping support the program as it moves […]
Sam Odrowski Around 300 students from five district schools joined together in a march from the Indian Residential School Monument off Hwy. 11 on Rainy River First Nations (RRFN) to the pow-wow grounds up the Trans-Canada Highway yesterday morning during an Orange Shirt Day Awareness Walk. Students held up signs […]
Sam Odrowski Indian Residential School Working Group Member Mookii Morisson spoke about what reconciliation means to district students during one of the eight workshops held yesterday morning at the Rainy River First Nation (RRFN) pow-wow grounds.
Donald Young School students who attended the Indian Residential School (IRS) Awareness Walk, hosted by the IRS Working Group at Rainy River First Nation, held up signs that read “Every Child Matters” and “The True Spirit Cannot Be Broken” in regards to IRS yesterday morning. Four other schools joined them […]
Ken Kellar Kendra Trenchard, above left, posed with her prize-winning pumpkin Saturday at the Rainy River Giant Pumpkin Festival. The eight-year-old’s pumpkin weighed in at 399 lbs. which put her in second place for the junior category, and the second largest pumpkin overall at the festival. Above right, Ken Trenchard, […]
Ken Kellar Staff and students at St. Michael’s School took to the field on Thursday for their annual Terry Fox walk. According to the Terry Fox Foundation, millions of students across Canada participate in a Terry Fox Run each year, which helps to raise awareness and funding for cancer research […]
Potential buyers took down their notes as local yearling and calf cattle were brought through the Stratton Sales barn during the sale on Saturday. The recent fire at the barn meant that room for cattle at the sale was tight, but Kim Jo Bliss noted that they still moved 1,268 […]
Ken Kellar Mike Tkachyk, left, Troy Parks, Richard Ottertail, Karen Erwin and Joe Galbraith stand with some of the projects that the group worked on over the summer at Front Street Manor. Galbraith oversaw the group and lent his experience to helping residents plan their projects, as well as doing […]
Ken Kellar Rainy River Giant Pumpkin Festival organizer Val Moor noted the weight of the final pumpkin to be weighed as a crowd gathered around it during the festival on Saturday. The pumpkin, grown by Jim Mills, weighed in at 714 pounds, making it the grand-prize winner for the festival […]
Local author Jack Hedman spoke to district students yesterday morning about “Dire Needs-Dire Straits,” the book he wrote on residential school survivors, following the Orange Shirt Day Awareness Walk. Students cycled through eight workshops where they learned about different aspects of residential school and indigenous culture. -Sam Odrowski photo
Jamie Mountain Quarterback Brady Meeks had the moves like Jagger as he jumped to evade the oncoming tackle from his Churchill Bulldogs’ opponent during the second half of the Muskie football team’s 66-19 romp in their Winnipeg High School Football League home-opener on Friday afternoon here. Meeks was outstanding in […]
