Rainy River Record

Janine Tucker has joined the Rainy River High School staff this year to teach math.

Skylar Arpin recently cut 13 inches of her hair off and donated it to Evlyn's Wig Sales in Lorette, MB. to be used to make a wig for kids suffering with cancer.

RRHS hosted Sioux Lookout Warriors on Thursday. The junior boys volleyball team lost 3-0 but did have a good rally in the third game to challenge the visiting team. Bryson Jasper is seen here getting ready to bump a ball while his teammate Cody Armstrong backs him up. No other results for the games were made available by press time.

The man at left, from Schreiber, Ont., was in Rainy River over the weekend to particpate in the volunteer firemen training and had a bad experience. Vandals smashed his back window out of his van an slashed a tire. Rainy River fireman Joe Bonhomme, right helped him put plastic over the window for the drive back home.

Volunteer firemen from across the west Rainy River District participated in Pumper Operations trainging in Rainy River over the weekend. Rainy River Volunteer Fireman John Jonassen is seen here operating a pumper station on a fire truck.

For the second year in a row, Jason Gibbins, left, and his partern Oliver Gibbins, won the RRWT. They are seen here with two of the fish, caught on day 1, that propelled them to victory. The fish on the left weighed 6.88 lbs.

Erin Gate, left, holds her daughter Alexia's 43 cm bass which tied for first in the younger division of the Kids' RRWT

Phoenix Nault, left, is seen her with her brother Noah who is holding the fish she caught. The 43 cm pike tied for first in the younger kids division of the Kids' RRWT.

Emma Noga, left, received her first place trophy from local KidSport chair Rebecca Tolen. Noga won the older kids division. 84 kids participated in the younger and older Kids' RRWT.

Ben Johnson, second from the left in the front row of spectators, watches anxiously as his pumpkin, the last one to be weighed, is on the scale. Weigh Master Guy Arpin, carefully adjusts the scale to get an accurate reading. It was heavy enough to win this year's festival, tipping the scales at 773 lbs. To see all the photos taken at the pumpkin festival, click on photos at left and then the RR Pumpkin Fest 09 Gallery.