Submitted Jeff with a couple of smallmouth bass from his day three catch at the St. Lawrence River.
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Local artist Cher Pruys was thrilled to find out that her painting “Rear View Mirror,” left, recently took Best Of Show in Fusion Art’s Highway’s & Byways Quarterly Art Exhibition. This painting will now be accepted into Fusion Art’s fourth-annual Group Show in Palm Springs in 2020. “Cruising,” above, was […]
Ken Kellar Vocalist Sylvie Kendree of My Son The Hurricane took to the stage at the Rainy Lake Square to close out their free concert last night. The returning crowd-favourite band delivered an energetic performance featuring their brassy blend of funk and hip-hop. The performance was the final free concert […]
Marc Stuempfle The Renegades are off to the finals in the Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League after they defeated the Couchiching Lady Raiders last night in the bottom of the seventh inning 8-7. The women ran out for a celebratory hug as the winning run crossed home plate. Next […]
New mini-royalty Brecken Mann was crowned by former king Niels Reynolds, and given his cape by contest organizer Sis McCormick, on Thursday evening following his victory in the 2019 mini-king and queen competition. The new mini-queen is Anneliese DeGagne. Well over 100 people packed the upstairs in the Emo Arena […]
Ken Kellar The Fu Fu Chi Chi Choir, Ragged Road and SiouxPerBoat all took part in the “Kitchen Party” that kicked off the afternoon of entertainment at the Moose N’ Fiddle festival’s Saturday session. Members of all three bands jammed together on songs some of them had only learned a […]
Sam Odrowski Christina Gerula showed off her steer with hopes of high prices during the 4-H cattle auction at the Emo Fair on Saturday. During the cattle sale 40 kids from beef clubs around the district showed a total of 31 steers and 15 heifers that they raised themselves through […]
Vaughn Wilson, left and Darwin Lance wasted no time during the “chair carve” event during the 42nd loggers’ competition at the Emo Fair on Friday morning. The pair eagerly sawed into their tree trunks as they began carving their chairs for the event. Wilson came in second place for the […]
Sam Odrowski Luck Murrell and her daughter, Mudmee, worked together on a leaf-printing craft where they painted leafs and pressed them against a piece of white paper at the Fort Frances Public Library yesterday morning. The craft was part of the “History Showcase” event hosted by the library and Fort […]
Sam Odrowski Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP Don Rusnak, right, joined elected officials from Alberton and Fort Frances yesterday afternoon at Kehl bridge to announce over $330,000 in federal funding to replace the Kehl bridge deck with a twin culvert bridge. The funding will also assist in resurfacing two kilometres of […]
Marc Stuempfle In a highly contested battle, Cameron Lidkea of CJ Contracting, left, tried to recover on defence and regain possession as he chased down Lucas Koomans of Centra Pipelines. The tight defensive play paid off for CJ Contracting as the men went on to earn their second straight Borderland […]
Ken Kellar Matt Veldhuisen, left, and Eric Veldhuisen of Velhuisen Construction, RRDSSAB board chair Debbie Ewald, RRDSSAB CAO Dan McCormick, Buddy Loyie, Smokey Bruyere, UNFC executive director Sheila McMahon and UNFC president Mike Jones officially broke ground on the new indigenous-led child care centre being built across from the St. […]
