They’re prayers have been answered!
When members of Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Morson broke ground for a new church last summer, they did not have all the money needed to complete the project.
Fortunately, the “pay as they went” motto worked itself out and the official blessing and dedication of the completed church was held Sunday.
For Clint Perreault of Couchiching, it is a day to be proud.
Perreault was one of the hundreds of people who took part in the “Treaty Days Celebration” yesterday, which also continues again today.
If you were to tell John Willis to go fly a kite, he’d probably thank you for it.
Willis and his wife, Katherine, will present Emo’s reeve and council with a kite fashioned in the shape of life-sized bald eagle during the community’s centennial celebrations next week.
Things are coming together well as Emo prepares to stage its centennial celebrations next Thursday through Saturday.
Mary Curtis, one of the organizers, said with a week to go, things are looking excellent so far.
“If the weather holds, it will be perfect,” she remarked.
Some grade seven students in the district will get chance to learn about the Rainy River now that the Rainy River Watershed “Riverwatch” program will fly.
It got the nod to be included in the curriculum for the 1999-2000 at a special meeting of the Rainy River District School Board here last night.
Five people, including two incumbents, are seeking the four seats up for grabs on the board of directors of Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc. at its annual meeting here tonight.
Vice-chair Craig Sanders and director Linda Hamilton both are seeking re-election against three others, whose names won’t be revealed until the meeting, which gets underway at 7 p.m. at the Legion Hall.
Facing some tough, windy conditions at the Dryden Walleye Masters championship last weekend, all five Fort Frances pairings finished out of the running.
The top local duo was Rick Socholotuk and Jordan Zen, who finished with a two-day total of 10.04 pounds.
Equipment will be provided to the Rainy River First Nation to allow it to do a GPS hydrographic study of the Rainy River either late this summer or next spring.
The water supply was not the reason several students and some staff fell ill at Crossroads School after samples taken by the Northwestern Health last week turned out to be bacteria-free.
With patients set to be transferred to the long-term care program in the new Rainy River hospital next week, there’s still no word on the extra funding needed from the provincial government.
