On March 13, 2015 Lorraine Aurore Giles (Lambert) peacefully went to the loving arms of Jesus, her Lord and Saviour.

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OPSEU

Two weekends ago some students from Rainy River High School and previous students attended the Fort Frances Badminton Tournament.

Submitted by
Carolee Hogue
Rainy River Hospital Auxiliary Highlights of our meeting on March 3,2015.
The Hospital Auxiliary will participate in the Meals on Wheels program in April.

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAF/MRA Rep.

This week was another busy one in Ottawa with forestry hearings, work on the pensions file, and the Conservatives working hard to stoke fear among Canadians to promote their unnecessary and intrusive Bill C-51 at committee... Read more...

Last week, sitting idly in the train yard in Fort Frances was a train made up entirely of tanker cars. It was only one of the 29 trains that pass through our community and district every day of the year. If you watch the trains from one of the level crossings in the district, you will see a mixture of tanker cars, flat cars carrying lumber, cars carrying grain from the west and container cars carrying containers that have arrived at Prince Rupert with consumer goods from Asia. You will also see unit trains carrying crude oil.

I was warm. Then the thought came to my mind.... I should get the camper out of winter storage!

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UNIFOR
TORONTO, March 16, 2015 /CNW/ - Unifor members have ratified five new agreements with CN Rail, with one still outstanding.

If you could sit down and plan for a community, what would be your most important considerations? As we look to the future, the communities of the Rainy River district have to deal with their histories and also with their futures. They do not have the luxury of beginning with a blank sheet.
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