Submitted Shelby Larson and Jeff Gustafson held up some smallmouth bass they caught this past weekend on the Winnipeg River.
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Sam Odrowski Ministry of Agriculture food forage specialist Christine O’Reilly of Lindsay, Ont. travelled to the Rainy River District to view the Emo Agricultural Research Station’s (EARS) growing operations and educate folks during the open house held there last Wednesday.
Some Emo Agricultural Research Station (EARS) open house attendees hitched a wagon ride along the tour of demonstration plots and trial crops, last Wednesday evening. Those who turned out to the open house learned about different varieties of soy beans, canola, wheat, and the status of EARS’s hops project. -Sam […]
New Gold tour guide, Cassandra Cochrane, answered many questions regarding New Gold’s mining operations, safety protocols, and environmental efforts during a public tour last Thursday afternoon. -Sam Odrowski photo
The EARS hops project demonstration plot features hundreds of feet of hops that are strung along several poles.
Well over 50 people has a chance to hop on a bus from Emo to the New Gold Mine and take a tour there last Thursday. Tour attendees had a chance to view New Gold’s open pit mine and ask questions to one of New Gold’s mining engineers. The tours […]
New Gold’s open pit mine is 100 metres deep and approximately 240 feet above sea level. The loader trucks transports roughly 600 loads of rocks to the processing plant each day at approximately 220 metric tons per load. -Sam Odrowski photos
Sam Odrowski Shaun Milner helped her granddaughter, Ryden Skirten, paint a bird feeder at Community Living Fort Frances and District’s Open Air Art Studio yesterday evening at Legion Park. These free drop-in art sessions happen nearly every week at various locations through the town all summer long with the next […]
Jamie Mountain Heather Wright of the Fort Frances Mud Dogs looked upwards to track exactly where an infield popup was in the sky during her squad’s 12-7 win over the Big Grassy Lynx in a loser’s side playoff matchup in Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League action yesterday evening at […]
Jamie Mountain Alexandra Malgo practised on returning shots during a free “Basics of Tennis Workshop” this morning at the Multi-Use Tennis Courts here. The workshop was sponsored by the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre in conjunction with the Multi-Use Courts Committee and was open to both children and adults. […]
of the MNRF Fort Frances Ogimaa Binesiiyog Stewardship Youth Rangers Rianna Roche, left, and Jaiden VanDulmen examined bloodroot during a recent nature walk at the Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung Historical Centre. There the youth rangers learned about local Indigenous history and archeology. They also helped to clean up the area by weeding unwanted […]
Sam Odrowski A group of children who attended the Couchiching Fire Department open house on Saturday had a chance to meet with “Sparky the Fire Dog.” The mascot spread cheer throughout the open house and provided a sense of entertainment to all that came. Kids who attended the open house […]
