Local News

Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

Whether you are a gardener with allergies or a person, that suffers from environmental allergies, who would just like to enjoy being outside in their yard, this column will provide you with some information that you may be able to use, to either enjoy gardening again, landscape your yard to help minimize allergy symptoms or just enjoy the being outdoors in your yard once and awhile. Seasonal allergies can stop some people in their tracks with sneezing attacks, watery eyes and runny noses or an inability to breathe.

Gary Sliworksky
Ag. Rep.

Spring will soon be upon us and some farmers may be thinking about construction projects. If you are considering a building project, you should be aware that you may be required to have an approved nutrient management strategy (NMS) and in some cases a nutrient management plan (NMP) prior to starting.

Al Lowe
Contributor

This is a very special little bird. There are not a great many creepers in the world. In all of North America, there is only one - this one. It lives all across Canada, including North America.

Ken Johnston

The state of the town’s public services was called into question Monday night when discussion about the Recreation and Library boards was brought up at the monthly meeting of Rainy River Town Council.

Ken Johnston

The garage doors opened for the first customers last Thursday at Kreger Sales and Service in Rainy River.
Renovations were about 95% done last week to the former Koeneman Lumber factory when owner and operator put up his new signs. Not long after Kreger’s first customer came a calling. “Mark Nault came in and said he was going out of town and needed an oil change and asked when I was going to open.

John Oren
Williams Northern Light

Senior Deanna Baron received the Hobey Baker Award, as the Lake of the Woods-Rainy River-Indus girls hockey team wrapped up its season Tuesday (Feb. 21) night with its annual awards banquet.

Rebecca Wood
LoW. W.I.

The Lake of the Woods Women’s Institute has kept busy over the winter with monthly meetings hosted by Mary Bottenfield, Karen Sepers, Ruth Brett and new members Caroline and Linda Kreger.

Ken Johnston

From tornados to generating electricity from a lemon, the kids at Riverview Elementary School in Rainy River recently dazzled the public at their annual Science Fair.

Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

Many gardeners already know that most shade loving plants prefer moist soils, so when a gardener encounters an area that has dry shady conditions even an experienced gardener may opt to leave the area bare or just cover it with a mulching product. Dry shade can provide a special challenge for gardeners but this column will help to diminish the myths of successful gardening in dry shady conditions.

Gary Sliworsky
Ag. Rep.

This is part 2 of an article that comes from Kit Pharo, Pharo Cattle Company. (Part 1 was last week.)
Frame score is an extremely valuable and useful tool when selecting future herd sires. A 3-frame yearling will almost always grow up to be a 3-frame adult.