By Ken Johnston
Editor

About 50 people attended the Riverview Elementary grade 8 graduation last Tuesday evening.
There were 10 members of the class of 2007. They are Justin Moen, Brittany Archie, Tyler McNally, Matt Abbott, Brandon Hanson, Samantha Westover, Cody Ossachuk, Alex Stalker, Jessie Bourre and Ella Rose Henderson.

By Al Lowe
Contributor

Some More About Your Fantastic Liver
Part 2
Last time we noted that your liver is an amazing storehouse. But it has a lot more functions than that.
The liver has a great deal to do with the digestion of fats. It produces bile salts. These are used to emulsify fats. Big drops of fat cannot be taken into the digestive system just the way they are. So bile salts break these large drops down into little tiny ones. This is much the same kind of action as a detergent on greasy dishes. It is not really a digestive process, but rather a mechanical one, a change in size. This ‘bile’ is taken by ducts to the gall bladder, where it is stored until it is needed. If necessary, your liver can produce a cup or more of bile each day.

By Jack Elliott
Correspondent

Down here in Drizzle Creek, the earlier garden planning sessions over high-test coffee at the Bakery ignited an infectious enthusiasm and a run on onion sets that in two days flat wiped out the communities stock . Digestive upsets and bad breath should be reaching epidemic proportions any week now.

By Howard Hampton
MPP Kenora-RR

KENORA - NDP Leader Howard Hampton says Dalton McGuinty can’t hide four years of inaction on issues that matter to Aboriginal communities with empty gestures.
“For four years, Aboriginal people in Ontario have been waiting for the respectful relationship promised by Dalton McGuinty. After all this time, all he can offer is a dedicated Ministry without a dedicated Minister. The women and men living in Ontario’s First Nations deserve the chance to share in Ontario’s prosperity. Instead they have a government that refuses to consult, refuses to deal with treaty issues and simply ignores them,” said Hampton.

By Gary Sliworsky
Ag. Rep.

A new study analyzing eleven calendar years of agricultural fatality data from 1990 to 2000 has found that 440 persons aged 60 or over died in agricultural injury events. Ninety-one percent of those killed were male. This number represents over a third of all the agricultural fatalities in Canada from 1990 to 2000, even though older adults comprise only 13% of the national farm population.

Peace, order and good government are the premise upon which Confederation took place in Canada.
This year, Sunday will mark the 140th anniversary of the Confederation Act of 1867. For those 140 years Governments of Canada have used those words as a basis in which to govern.

It seems some people do not have anything better to do with their time.
Last Wednesday night someone or more than likely a bunch of someones, hauled sand from the park sandbox to the kiddie pool.
The pool just opened the previous Friday after town employees pressure-washed it.

Are you proud to be a Canadian?
This week you have an opportunity to both reflect on what being a citizen of this fine country means and to display your patriotism in many ways.
Many communities across the district are holding events on Canada Day. Some are simple like community picnics and others are more complicated with events going from sun up to sun down, followed by spectacular fireworks.

By Ken Johnston
Editor

Riverview Elementary and McCrossen-Tovell Schools will not be administered by Ian Simpson as previously reported in a press release by the public school board.
Instead RRHS principal Casey Slack will take on more duties and administer all three schools. School Board Sup. Int. Jack McMaster said last week that new Riverview Vice-principal Kerry Tolen will be given more admin. time to aid Slack.

Ruth passed away peacefully in the Cowichan District Hospital on June 7, 2007. She was born on Sept. 13, 1915 in Bergland, Rainy River District, Ontario, where her parents were among the first settlers. She has lived for the past eight years in Duncan Manor, after moving from Vancouver. Predeceased by her parents and three brothers, she is survived by her sister, Anne (John) Mair in New York State, sister-in- law, Lynn Hendrickson, in Rainy River, nephew, John Hendrickson, in Fort Frances and numerous other relatives.