News Release

The Rainy River District Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is cautioning the public to be aware of a new online trend called Neknomination. The concept involves a drinking game where a person will quickly consume a large quantity of alcohol by “necking” the bottle while participating in some type of extremely risky activity. The event is videotaped and then uploaded to a social media site while challenging at least two friends to respond with an increasingly risky activity.

By Heather Latter
Staff Writer

Press release

Nominated by the Rainy River Public Library Board, Michael Dawber is the winner of the Ontario Library Association’s Media and Communications Award.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

By Jack Elliott
Contributor

Fashion sense or good sense

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAF/MRA Rep.

By Al Lowe
Contributor

This week was a very busy one in Ottawa during which the Harper government presented another 400-plus page monster budget bill that does nothing to create jobs or make life affordable in Northwestern Ontario, and that saw me take the issue of propane price gouging to the floor of the House of Commons.

The garden seeds are in the stores. So to are the starter kits for flowers, tomatoes and other plants that will be transplanted later this year. The days are growing longer and there still is light after six in the evening. I can now almost see daylight as I head to the office shortly before seven in the morning. In fact this week we will almost see melting temperatures.
Spring is arriving, while winter keeps kicking and fighting to stick around.