Local News

News Release
UC Canada

Lights are everywhere ˜ strings of lights, nets of lights, curtains of lights; lights that twinkle, blink, or flash; lights in windows and in stores; lights on doors, trees, rooflines, and lawn reindeer.

Al Lowe

Actually, there are quite a lot of different things which may be eating your corn besides you, your family, or your customers. Let’s take a brief look at some of them.

Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

There are many flowering plants that can be grown and enjoyed indoors. Any of these plants can make a great gift for a gardener that is craving some gardening fun or for a person that only likes to garden ‘indoors’.

Ken Johnston

Thursday evening a handful of Rainy River citizens attended a Best Start visioning session at Riverview School.
Dianne McCormack, President of Rainy River Playschool Inc., opened the meeting praising the proposal to bring Best Start (childcare) to Rainy River.

News Release

The holiday season is almost upon us, and the Ontario Provincial Police wants to remind the motoring public of the danger of mixing alcohol with driving. From November 25, 2005 to January 2, 2006, the OPP will team up with police services across the province for the annual Festive R.I.D.E. (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) campaign.

Ken Johnston

Rainy River town council hopes to have sold the former Koeneman Lumber plant.
In a special meeting last Monday evening council voted to sell the building to an undisclosed party for $50,000.

Ken Johnston

A new group of people are now working in the area to help youth quit smoking and preventing them from starting to smoke and to denormalize the use of tobacco for smoking.

Ken Johnston

For the second time Rainy River’s Pat Giles and Jerry Galusha have returned from a trip down south from which they saw vast devastation and did their best to offer help.

Ken Johnston

The Sioux Lookout Royals may have been tired and short on bench but that did not stop them from winning the annual Rainy River Men’s Early Bird Hockey Tournament Sunday.

Ken Boshcoff M.P.
T.Bay-RR

While we engage in dealings with the big issues on forestry, energy, transportation and trade we can still keep ourselves positive by building up our own communities. I have talked about involvement and participation and I would like to point out how we can win small battles while the big war of economic revitalization is being fought.