Staff The paving of King’s Highway between Wright Avenue and Cornwall Avenue is expected to begin early next week, weather permitting. Pioneer Construction, which has been subcontracted by Bay City Contractors, is scheduled to put down the second lift of asphalt on Monday, Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown told […]
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Joey Payeur Nolan and Davis Ross didn’t like being apart for the first time in their hockey lives. So now that they’re back together, they’re going to keep it that way. The Fort Frances Lakers announced today the 21-year-old local twins have signed commitments to play for the WCHA’s St. […]
Premier Kathleen Wynne and Environment minister Glen Murray are going to save the planet with their new “Climate Action Plan.” After the Ontario legislature begins its summer vacation, the “action plan” will be released. They really don’t want any embarrassing questions asked in the House. Well, Ontario residents had better […]
Don Rusnak
Member of Parliament
Thunder Bay-Rainy River
Member of Parliament
Thunder Bay-Rainy River
With May coming to an end, I was extremely happy to be back in the Fort Frances area for the annual Manitou Rapids fish fry. It was a beautiful day, and I want to thank everyone who came out to participate in this spectacular event. It always is great to […]
’Tis the season for gardening. Nurseries and garden centre add-ons at our local stores are bustling with customers armed with big ideas and good intentions. And even if our thumbs aren’t as green as they should or could be, the benefits of gardening are significant. There are the obvious positive […]
Electric fence simplifies the management of an effective and productive grazing system. To be effective, your grazing system relies on you controlling where the livestock will be, not the livestock determining where they will be grazing. An electric fence is easy to erect and very effective at controlling livestock. But […]
Now a couple of weeks into the 2016 open-water walleye season, conditions are changing and walleye are on the move towards where they’ll spend much of the summer. Walleye are the most sought-after fish species across Sunset Country, evident by the fact thousands of anglers visit our region each year […]
If you are travelling around the rural areas, you’ll see most of the cattle now are out enjoying the green grass. The grass has come along quite nicely after getting some of this latest moisture. But it is a wise idea to wait until the grass has a good head-start […]
Ever since last week’s column, I’ve been thinking of my wonderful “Coksi-Pepsi” Grandma and how happy she always seemed to be. And how sad I felt when she passed away suddenly when I was only 17 years old. As a naive teenager, I sometimes was almost jealous of Grandma because […]
Joey Payeur Change the coach, shuffle a few players in and out of the roster—it makes no difference to the Muskie boys’ soccer team. Their NorWOSSA dominance remains inarguable and absolute. Fort High nabbed its sixth-straight NorWOSSA title last Wednesday—routing the host Dryden Eagles 8-0 in the final to cap […]
Joey Payeur Right player, right place, right time. Sydney Radigan came up clutch in the biggest game of the season for the second-straight year—once again scoring the game-winning goal to lead the Muskies to a 1-0 victory over the host Dryden Eagles in the NorWOSSA final last Wednesday. The victory […]
Joey Payeur The Muskies’ latest jaunt to the OFSAA track-and-field championships is all about hang time—whether it be throwing an object through the air or themselves. Jacob Empey and Sekina Scheibler will carry the black-and-gold banner into Windsor for the all-Ontarios that begin tomorrow without their normal coaches, but with […]
