Bass Tournament Gets Help

The Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship is a go for 2011.

Tournament organizers confirmed plans for next year after finding a new chair and filling a number of vacancies on the board during a meeting last night.

Outgoing chair Tom Fry says it's a huge relief for him.

"More relieved that it looks like things will go ahead," says Fry, "than I am about not having the position as chair anymore. Certainly, I fell good about that. I just didn't feel with my new personal commitments of heading south and so on that I could handle the job the way I've done in the past."

Fry says he will continue to stay on the board to assist new chair Gord Watson.

Ambulance Funding Discussed

Ambulance services across the province may get more direction today as to how they can save for new ambulances.

They're meeting with Ministry of Health staff to discuss new rules that limit the amount of money agencies can set aside each year.

Smaller services, such as the Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board, say it could take longer to replace aging vehicles as a result.

Flu shot Clinic Open

The Northwestern Health Unit is putting out a call for residents to get their flu shot this fall.

It began its flu shot clinics this week.

Director of Infectious Diseases Donna Stanley says H-1-N-1 is still cause for concern, but unlike last year, the health unit won't be administering a different shot to help combat that flu strain.

"Last year when we had H1N1, it represented a major change and a new strain," says Stanley. "That strain has now become the seasonal circulating strain. This year's vaccine, there's always three components to it and this year one of the components is H1N1.

Stanley says priorities groups this year includes those with a chronic disease, seniors and young children under five.

Pink Out Day

(Students at Crossroads School in Devlin at a previous Pink Day)

The Rainy River District Breast Health Network wants to paint the district Pink today.

Chair Teresa Hazel says they're proclaiming the day Pink Out day to raise awareness of Breast Cancer Health.

"we're encouraging individuals, organizations, employees, students, teachers, men, women and children to wear pink to show their support of breast cancer awareness," says Hazel.

Hazel says they'll also hoping to raise a few dollars for a new digital mammography unit and will be traveling around the area awarding prizes to those in pink.

Q-Gold Resumes Drilling

Q-Gold Resources has resumed drilling operations near Mine Centre.

The company is working in the McKenzie Gray area believed to be contain high quantities of gold and silver mineralization

Q-Gold began drilling the area last year.

Chamber Directors Needed

The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce is looking for individuals to sit on its board of directors.

Chamber Manager Anthony Mason says as many as two spots will be open in the coming year.

Elections to the board will take place November 24.

Update on Rainy River Resources Project

(Rainy River Resources photo)

Rainy River Resources has released the latest results of its drilling program at its exploration project north of Barwick.

The company says it continues to be pleased with the findings.

President Ray Threlkeld says all of the information collected is vital in determining the project's future.

"We'll use that resource information to define within some level of accuracy what the capital costs might be," says Threlkeld, "what the configuration of a mining scenario might be, whether it be open pit or underground.

The company plans to continue drilling until the middle of November with underground exploration planned for early next year.