Local News

Gary Sliworsky
Ag. Rep.

How bad are things on the farm these days? Consider this information from an article by Ron Friesen in The Manitoba Co-operator.
More than three out of every four dollars (77 per cent) that Canadian producers netted in 2004 came from the government, not from crops and livestock.

Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

This column will cover some of the questions that I have been asked while out in public over the last few months. You also, may have been wondering about some of these questions yourself. Gardeners should never be shy about asking each other for information or advice as this is how we learn and become more skilled.

Howard Hampton
MPP Kenora/RR

Queen’s Park - Ontario NDP Leader and Kenora-Rainy River MPP Howard Hampton says a recent Manitoba Hydro report confirms that industrial electricity rates in Ontario are the highest in the country and residential electricity rates are second highest in Canada.

Ken Johnston

What’s closed for good, may not be closed for good.
A few weeks ago Rainy River town councillor Brent Anderson read from a letter to council from the Ontario Trillium Foundation stating that because the RR Centennial Committee’s final report had not be filed with the foundation that future Trillium grant applications could be in jeopardy.

Ken Johnston

Bass fishing will get bigger in Morson this year.
Organizers for the first annual Morson Bass International live release tournament are hoping that the new event will become as big as the tournaments in the region already in existence.

Ken Johnston

The 18th Annual Rainy River Railroad Daze festival is scheduled to make its last stop as people have known it this weekend, July 22-24, 2005.
The powers that be have been discussing moving the event, which has been dwindling away for several years, to Canada Day each year. Traditionally it has been held on the third weekend of July.

News Release
MNR

ATIKOKAN - Five Minnesota anglers have pleaded guilty to having 12 walleye over the limit and possessing a northern pike that was within the prohibited slot size.
Gerald M. Heinen, 59, of Albany, Bryan V. Heinen, 31, of Cambridge, Martin Moser, 48, Joseph E. Moser, 44, and Adam M. Fuchs, 18, all of Paynesville, were charged and issued Provincial Offence Notices. All the charges were uncontested and the men paid the fines to the Provincial Offences office in Fort Frances.

Ken Johnston

Efforts to bring broadband services to the Morson area have made a partial connection, but nothing is getting transmitted yet.
Economic Development Officer Geoff Gillon said that the Rainy River Future Development Corporation has received word that the federal government’s FedNor program will provide about $300,000 to aid in the installation of towers in the Bergland, Morson and other rural areas north of the existing Hwy. 11 network of towers in the area. However, no money had flowed from the Ontario government’s Northern Ontario Heritage Corporation program. “They have the application but it did not make their meeting (recently),” said Gillon who noted that NOHFC has many projects to deal with at each meeting.

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Police

(Fort Frances, Ontario) On July 4th, 2005 the Fort Frances OPP Marine unit was patrolling the south arm of Rainy Lake stopping 24 vessels and charging 4 people. Three charges were laid under the Liquor Licence Act and 1 under the Small Vessels Regulations. The OPP would like to remind boaters that the Liquor Licence Act states:

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Voyageurs National Park

Voyageurs National Park is pleased to announce that Ojibwe Tales: Stories of the Ojibwe People won the 17th Annual Northeastern Minnesota Book Award in the category of Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ojibwe Tales was one of eleven considered for this award.