By Al Lowe
Contributor

There are a lot of strange looking animals in the world. This is one of them.

This week, Queen’s Park resumes after its summer break.

Nothing brings work to a standstill faster than a mom bringing in her newborn baby. Even from the back pressroom, the pressman can hear the cooing that the front office workers make. And quickly they reach the front office to compete for time to hold those newborns.

As I write this I know that for school kids here in Rainy River it is the last day of summer vacation (Monday), and next week my step-kids will make their trek back to school for yet another year.

By Sarah Pruys
Summer reporter

The annual Emo Fair queen pageant culminated last Thursday evening with 16-year-old Destiny Woolsey of Barwick being crowned.

By Morgan Haw
4–H Beef Club

The fourth meeting was hosted at McDonald's for our vet presentation. The meeting was called to order and the pledge was recited.

Editor's Note: Over the weekend former Rainy River resident John Bouchard posted on Facebook that he had watched local men playing fastball at the NAFA world series. I asked him if he could get a shot or two and he did. And then we picked up the story about the RR District team from the Fort Frances Times.

By Lucas Punkari
Fort Frances Times

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

News Release
Ont. Govt.

“This morning, the government has advised the Speaker to recall the Legislature for Monday, Aug. 27, in order to introduce the Putting Students First Act.

Over the past couple weeks there has been a great deal said about the province potentially introducing Back to Work Legislation to force an end to a labour dispute with most of the province’s teache