First of all, let me begin with the most important lesson I’ve learned in the last week—courtesy of my first session in grief recovery at Riverside Counselling Services. My brain isn’t broken; my heart is broken. This means I cannot fix my heart with my head. This means my grief […]
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I was thinking about making cookies the other night. Oh no, not for me. Certainly not. These cookies would be for my daughters away at school—a treat, a reminder that they are loved, while they are buried in the tests and assignments and uncertainty that life flings at them as […]
American showman P.T. Barnum is credited with saying “there’s a sucker born every minute.” Although it’s never been proven that he actually uttered those famous words, to me it widely describes the annual hype job that is the NHL trade deadline, especially in recent years. Each February, it seems television […]
We finally are getting closer to that part of the winter that we all look forward to: the end. Don’t get me wrong, I love to ice fish. I just like to fish out of a boat even more. With the arrival of March, the end is in sight–the days […]
Heather Latter A family of colourful snowmen, built last week in the front yard of Judy Kielczewski’s home on Second Street East, has been popular among passers-by. Perhaps more snowmen will be built around town in the coming days as the forecast is calling for several more centimetres of the […]
Heather Latter “Anders the Magician” helped an audience member complete a rope trick during his act at the Townshend Theatre last night as part of the Kids & Company entertainment series. The final show of the season will be “Project Soul,” a street dance group, performing on April 23.
Duane Hicks The possibility of longer trains has sparked town council to provide input to Transport Canada’s consultation plan for railway-roadway grade crossing regulations. Transport Canada is looking at new rules to improve safety at rail crossings, but Coun. Ken Perry said at last night’s council meeting that waiting a […]
Staff Fort Frances Lakers’ goalie Tanner Hamilton was named the SIJHL’s player-of-the-week yesterday. The 20-year-old native of Saskatoon got the start between the pipes for the last three games of the Lakers’ regular season when starter Tyler Ampe was forced to the sidelines due to a suspension. Hamilton made the […]
