More than two weeks after torrential rains hit the district, the impact is still being felt. Couchiching First Nation ordered 6,000 sandbags from the Ministry of Transportation to deal with rising levels on Rainy Lake. Several homes there are in danger of flooding, with summer students having been enlisted to […]
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Rains evidently have returned as faithfully as of old and Rainy River valley has never again been threatened with becoming a Saskatchewan wasteland like we barely managed to avoid in my first year of haymaking, about 1960. I had just acquired a fully-cleared farm that in later years proved capable […]
Searching for a real estate complex complete with a 1,000-seat auditorium/gymnasium and tons of classroom and closet space? The Alexander Baker-Backus Complex across the river in International Falls, Mn. has just come on the market. But you’d better act fast—the owners intend to offload the property by July 1. “It’s […]
Before the Fort Frances Canadians could grab their hockey sticks and start swinging, they needed the recreational council behind them and that implied some cash and ownership as well as considerable responsibility. Our senior hockey players mostly had been good juniors before the war when names like the Jaycees, Kaycees, […]
Forty years later, it’s still vivid in some minds how the air was filled with flying rocks and everyone around was put in peril when the Rainy Lake, or Noden, Causeway was under construction. The blasting continued night and day for a long time. It started with Tip Croome, a […]
“George Armstrong is the luckiest man I know,” J.A. Mathieu told me one day. “He gets a contract to build a highway and finds a gold mine!” The old logger could be accused of expressing some jealousy here, having just lost a lawsuit that left Armstrong as sole owner of […]
Dear editor: On Saturday and Sunday (April 20-21), members of the Rainy River Valley Field Naturalists spent about 40 man hours cleaning the islands and stretch of highway from the middle of the Noden Causeway to George Armstrong Road. This was done as part of our commitment to conserving and […]
Bertie (Bud) Jordbro, 86, of Rainycrest Home for the Aged, 550 Osborne St. Fort Frances, Ont., passed away at his residence on Wed., April 10, 2002. He was born Nov. 5, 1915 in Dixon, Ill. to the late Alex and Nellie Jordbro. At an early age, Bud moved to Sask. […]
Cleaning up a portion of Highway 11 and keeping track of local wildlife populations are just two of the projects the Rainy River Valley Field Naturalists are tackling this year. The club is committed to encouraging conservation and wise use of the environment, noted Bill Morgenstern, who was elected president […]
Every time you pass the old Fort Frances High School, ask yourself a question: would Rusty Green want to buy that red brick mountain? As it stands here today, big, beautiful, and abandoned—with nobody seemingly interested in whether it lives or dies—why would anyone covet it? And who was Rusty […]
The McEvoys and Holmes came here from the mighty Miramichi and knowing the woods and rivers of New Brunswick, also knew a good thing when they saw it here in the ’30s. They enjoyed our surroundings so well that one of them served repeatedly as mayor of Fort Frances and […]
Dear sir: Rainy Lake is part of my back yard and I cherish it. We as citizens of Fort Frances and the Rainy River District live near and have daily access to unarguably one of the most beautiful lakes in Canada. Fine fishing, breathtaking scenery and wildlife watching provide hours […]
