Local News

Ken Johnston
Editor

Local Ontario Provincial Police will be handing out 340 extra tickets across the district this summer but not for what you think.
Instead of penalizing people they will be rewarding kids for wearing their bicycle helmets from Rainy River to Atikokan.

Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

Cornflowers have been grown in gardens in North America since Colonial times, primarily from seeds brought over from Europe. Today there are many species of Centaurea, but the most readily available as seeds or plants are Centaurea cyanus, cornflower, or bachelor’s-button; C. americana, basket flower; and C. montana, mountain bluet, or perennial cornflower.

Gary Sliworsky
Ag. Rep.

Avian Influenza, or “Bird Flu”, continues to be in the headlines daily. The following summarizes the current Avian Influenza situation and the efforts underway to manage the risk of AI spread in Ontario.

Al Lowe
Contributor

This group of butterflies has some of the largest ones in the world, and, in a great many cases, some of the prettiest. They are large and brightly coloured, and most of the typical North American ones have ‘tails’ on the bird wings.

Ken Johnston

It’s official! The CN Hotel has changed ownership!
About three years ago Jeanni Brumwell of Kenora and formerly of Rainy River started looking at buying the business. “In March Linda threw a number at me that I liked,” said Jeanni on Friday.

Ken Johnston

While everyone else was sleeping through the power outage at about 4:15 a.m. Monday, John and Sara Jonassen of 114 Second St., Rainy River had an electrical fire; yes an electrical fire.

News Release
NWHU

The Northwestern Health Unit would like to advise the public that dead crows from Kenora and Sioux narrows have been confirmed positive for the West Nile Virus.
On July 20, 2006, the Northwestern Health Unit was advised by the Canadian Co-Operative Wildlife Health Centre in Guelph that 2 dead crows submitted by the Kenora office were confirmed positive for the West Nile Virus. This brings the total of West Nile positive birds in the Kenora and Rainy River Districts to 14.

Pastor Mark Mast
Rainy River Ministerial

On Sunday, July 23, many of our community gathered at Hannam Park for a community church service and Music fest. This all-day event was a wonderful opportunity for each of us to live out the words of Psalm 133:1 “How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!”

Jack Elliott
Contributor

Some are a few inches long, some have five and six-foot wing spans. Some flutter along at butterfly gates, others scream through the air at well over a hundred of miles per hour. Some come as ready to fly kits for a few bucks, others are “made from scratch” scale-model replicas involving investments of thousands of hours and as many dollars.

News Release
Mike Pepera

Get on the team, and participate at the third organizational meeting of the, Baudette Bay Hockey Classic. The meeting will be held on Friday, August 4th, in the VFW Clubrooms at 7:00 PM. This exciting game will feature our Lake of the Woods Bears (boys‚ team) and the St. Paul Johnson Governors. The game will take place outside, on the Baudette Bay, on January 20, 2007.