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Rainy River Open a big hit

Sunday, August 1st saw 24 golfers descend on the Spruce Creek Golf Course for the 35th annual Rainy River Open golf tournament.

August Long Weekend OPP Report

(Fort Frances, ON.) – Rainy River District OPP officers investigated 135 occurrences between July 30, 2010 and August 5, 2010.

The Centaures family of flowers

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru
Cornflowers have been grown in gardens in North America since Colonial times, primarily from seeds brought over from Europe.

The weather has certainly posed some challenges

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA Rep.

Dairy cattle are the milk factories

By Al Lowe
Contributor

Age 60 is a high hurdle

My birthday announcement appeared in last Wednesday’s paper. It noted that I wasn’t acting my age. I like to fish, and my partner John Maffei and I had a ball roaring across the lake in his bass boat with the throttle pushed all the way down and the motor drinking gas like a binge drinker. While the gas gauge was visibly seen dropping every mile that we headed north, one would not have mistaken us for two fifty something fishermen having the time of our life.

What happens...stays in Vegas!

Who would go to Las Vegas in the summer time?
Guilty!

Leonard Andy - Nah Nah Bush, 65

Leonard Andy-Nah Nah Bush of Big Grassy First Nation, suddenly passed away with his family by his side on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Sylvester Armstrong, 87

It is with deep sorrow that the family of Sylvester Armstrong announces his passing on July 25, 2010 at the La Verendrye Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont, with his family by his side. Sylvester was born April 5, 1923 in Shenston Twp, Ont, to the late James and Margaret Armstrong.
He met the love his life, Shirley Lauzon in August of 1953 at the Pinewood Sports Day. They were united in marriage on November 8th, 1954.

A work in progress!

After 40 years the dreams and efforts of citizens on both sides of the border started to take shape in the last two years of the 1950s. Here it is seen about one third of the way done. A total of six spans at a length of 1,282 feet were eventually erected and have served the border towns for five decades as of July 30, 2010. See more photos on page seven.

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