Rainy River High School students celebrated their graduation last Wednesday evening with a ceremony taking place in the school's gym.
The RRHS band kicked it off with a procession and performance of “O Canada.”
The Rainy River District Transportation Services Consortium is pleased to announce that following an extensive procurement process, all routes have been awarded for the 2018-19 school year.
As a result, a new school bus transportation provider, First Student, now will provide service in Rainy River District.
Draw winners from the recent “Strawberry Social” held by the Emo and District Hospital Auxiliary included Mamie Herdman of Fort Frances (wooden lawn chairs donated by Nestor Falls Hardware) and Shirley Brown of Nestor Falls (solar lights).
Shirley Wilson of Emo won the door prize.
The auxiliary members thank all who donated, attended, and worked at the event.
Canada Day is this Sunday and many district communities are gearing up to provide a day of celebration.
Barwick, for instance, will hold its parade, a ball tournament, and great food booths while Emo once again has a full day of activities planned.
“Dry lightning” activity resulted in rapid fire starts in the vicinity of Kingfisher Lake First Nation in the far north as of yesterday afternoon.
Sioux Lookout Fire #31, located six km east of Kingfisher Lake First Nation, was listed as “being held” at 0.2 hectares in size at last report.
Glenn Boyda of Atikokan won the $500 up for grabs for Father's Day in the Rainy River District Mutual Aid Association's weekly cash calendar draw.
Winning $30 for June 17-23 were Lana Sherwood (Welland, Ont.), Simone Dejardins (Fort Frances), Jim Mills (Thunder Bay), Emily Esselink (Devlin), Rochelle Duchnicki (Fort Frances), Ron Cameron (Atikokan), and Ed Pearson (Sleeman).
The Northwest Catholic District School Board is pleased to announce the award of playground equipment improvement tenders at Sacred Heart School in Sioux Lookout and St. Patrick's School in Atikokan to Playgrounds-R-Us, funded with Ministry of Education School Condition Improvement and School Renewal funding.
On the hunt for new lightning-caused fires, OMNR detection aircraft had spotted five new blazes in the Northwest Region by late yesterday afternoon.
Forest fuels have proven receptive to at least a few of the roughly 44,000 lightning strikes to occur in the region over the past five days.
Sioux Lookout Fire #28 was spotted about 80 km southwest of Pickle Lake.
Two new fires were confirmed in the Northwest Region by yesterday afternoon.
Red Lake Fire #49, located near Guest Lake, was listed as “being held” at 0.5 hectares in size at last report.
Kenora Fire #64, located near Crowduck Lake, has been declared “out” at 0.1 ha.
Two fires were sparked in Fort Frances District on Thursday.
Five new fires were confirmed by yesterday afternoon in the Northwest Region.
Sioux Lookout Fire #22, located in the far north near Windigo Lake, was listed as “being observed” at 30 hectares in size.
Sioux Lookout Fire #23, burning near Opakopa Lake, 20 km southwest of Weagamow Lake First Nation, was listed as “not under control” at 40 ha at last report.
