Duane Hicks Rainycrest resident Verenia Zucchiatti, front row left, joined Rainycrest Auxiliary president June Caul, resident May Matheson, activity worker Elizabeth Logue, and resident Robert Bliss, as well as auxiliary vice-president Diane Maxey, Riverside Foundation director Allison Cox, auxiliary member Laurie Hogan, auxiliary treasurer Sheila McMillen, and Foundation chair Bill […]
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Duane Hicks Families and individuals of all ages attended the community Christmas dinner at Knox United Church. Here, Marlon, Camille and Katrina Hagarty enjoyed a dessert. In addition to food and camaraderie, dinner guests were treated to a performance of the Christmas cantata, “Good News from Home,” thanks to Diane […]
Sam Odrowski Rae Ann Wood’s Grade 2/3 class at St. Michael’s School smiled for a picture before embarking on their “Random Act of Kindness Christmas Walk,” where they distributed 100 handmade cards and 226 gift bags to homes surrounding their school on Thursday. The cards and gift bags were put […]
Duane Hicks Marc-Andre Michon, left, and Maria Gilbert were among the volunteers who served up food to everyone who attended the community Christmas dinner Christmas Day at Knox United Church. The delicious meal was prepared by volunteer cooks Sharon Gurski, JoAnne Formanek Gustafson, and Tracy Clarke.
Duane Hicks Several generations of the Gerber family treated patients and staff alike to a lovely selection of Christmas songs last Wednesday afternoon at La Verendrye General Hospital here. The Gerbers have made it a holiday tradition to spread joy through music.
Lindsay Strickland and Cara Coran were excited after being chosen from the packed crowd–by Fred Penner himself–to join the fun onstage and sing an original favourite, “Sandwiches,” at the new Rainy Lake Square in June. It was one of a series of concerts held to celebrate the inaugural year of […]
A group of Rainy River Field Naturalist Club members and volunteers began laying in cedar back on Sept. 29 to extend the boardwalk at the Cranberry Peatlands Interpretive Trail in Alberton by 330 feet to total close to 1,000 feet in all. The project was supported by funding provided from […]
Museum summer student Naomi McManaman checked out “We Were Taught Differently: The Indian Residential School Experience,” the new exhibit on loan from the Lakes of the Woods Museum in Kenora that opened at the Fort Frances Museum & Cultural Centre in May. A complimentary exhibit on the former St. Marguerite’s […]
Drag queens Prairie Sky, Vida Lamour, Jack Doff, Lady Quinnzarr, and Pharoah Moans struck a pose in front of the “Welcome to Fort Frances” sign at the east end of town as part of the inaugural “Pride Week” festivities held here from July 9-15.
The Kemira Paper Dragons of International Falls, left, and the First City Paddling Club of Bemidji battled to a close finish during the International Boundary Waters Dragon Boad Club’s inaugural FMG Ice Dragon Challenge held in February on the ice of Sand Bay behind La Place Rendez-Vous here.
Outgoing mayor Roy Avis and mayor-elect June Caul presented the Fort Frances Citizen of the Year Award for 2018 to Cynthia Donald at the Nov. 26 meeting of town council.
Randi Roth of the Royal Canadian Legion Br. #29 Colour Guard checked out the “Indigenous Veterans of Treaty No. 3” exhibit which opened in mid-November at the Fort Frances Museum & Cultural Centre. The exhibit eventually may become a travelling one for other museums in the district to access.
