Rainy River Record

Recently the Morson Women’s Institute gathered for a winter project to sew fleece coverlettes for the long term care patients in Rainy River. Pictured here are members of the Institute, standing left to right JoAnn Moen, Lucy Grout, Laurie Pentney, Donna Moen and Vivian Locking seated, and wearing one of the coverlettes. Missing from the photo are Nancy Miller, Patsy Moen, Rhonda Lange, and Kris Carpenter.

Trish Neilson, center, and Bob and Brig McGreevy, right, were among those who attended Rainy River High School's first ever Art Festival this past Friday evening.

Students at Our Lady of the Way School have been engaged in lessons and activities built around the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Students have been learning about the history of the Olympics, events in the Winter Olympics, the success of Canadian athletes in Vancouver in 2010 as well as Russian culture and geography. Pictured are some of the school’s students with their Matryoshka Dolls (Russian Nesting Dolls) that they designed to help decorate their classroom. Russia no longer feels like it is worlds away and the students look forward to cheering on our athletes.

Don Beyak was one of many who attended the first ever Rainy River High School Art Fest last Friday evening.

Judi Helgeson, owner and operater of All Sew in Rainy River, not only mends clothing, she also can do elaborate embroidery work. She is seen here with her computer driven embroidery machine which digitizes artwork and then embroiders in on anything fabric.

–Ken Johnston photo

Besides providing their customers with banking services, the staff at Rainy River's CIBC have decided to do monthly acts of kindness in Rainy River. Last Thursday CIBC Branch Manager Michael Pedri and staff member Dawn Ivall, seen standing, visited both Riverview Manor and Heritage House in RR to commit their first act of kindness.
–Ken Johnston photo

Chelsea St. Pierre, left, was the winner of the Rainy River Public Library's recent Family Literacy Day contest. On January 29, Chelsea received her prize - a Kobo Touch e-book reader - from Gordon Prost, Vice-Chair of the Rainy River Public Library Board
–Submitted photo

Over $500 was raised on the annual Chairs for Charity raffle at the Linda Johnston Memorial Dinner Saturday in Rainy River. Acting Exec. Dir. for the Kenora-Rainy River Alz. Society, Rossana Tomashowski, second from right, presented three of the four winners with their prizes. Fr l. to. r., Sue Armstrong (chair by Patti Diebel), Alice Bremeault (chair by Vivian Locking), Rosanna with Ruth Wolanicki's prize (Wolanicki not pictured-Chair by Diebel) and Jim Drennan (Chair donated by Jennette Cross).

Barry Potter, Agricultural Development Advisor with OMAF/MRA spoke to members of the RR Cattlemen's Association at their AGM in Stratton on Thursday.

Local Alzheimer Service Coordinator, Mary O'Connor, left, enlisted Norma-Jean Johnston as a volunteer, to show the crowd a simple tip on how to get someone with dementia to go the direction you want them to.