Duane Hicks The Asham Stompers entertained a couple of hundred people with their Red River jigging yesterday evening at the Townshend Theatre. The energetic dance troupe was brought in from Manitoba by the Rainy River District School Board as part of the third-annual native language/studies conference, entitled “Our Language Is […]
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Stephen Harper must have surprised everyone over the weekend when he told an audience, “We always say in all these elections in a democratic ethos, voters are never supposed to give absolute trust to anybody. “They’re supposed to constantly question and that is part of the process.” A recent Angus […]
Spring is in the air. If my mother were here, she would say it’s time for “spring cleaning.” I still remember how we used to take down the curtains, scrub the closets, and beat the carpets (before the days of vacuum cleaners). At one time, our house had been an […]
Have you sold a house lately? It’s a whole new ball game. Stagers. That’s the magic of selling your property now. Stagers have been around for a while, but they have become standard practice. You pay someone to tell you the 17 piles of magazines dating back 30 years have […]
Well, I’m hoping the Easter Bunny found everyone over the weekend! The Easter Bunny visited our place and left things all over the yard, in the playhouse, and other tricky places. Maddie and Marlee absolutely loved the big hunt. In fact, Maddie was wondering how the bunny managed to carry […]
Planting a vegetable garden is very rewarding for both the beginner and even the most seasoned gardener. And a garden full of vegetables isn’t that difficult to create. While living in Fort Frances, I planted a very large vegetable garden every year. And I found the most efficient and productive […]
The Black-footed Ferret is another animal which has barely—just barely—escaped disappearing altogether from the North American landscape. There are only four species of ferret in the world, and I would guess that most of you reading this have never come into contact with a ferret of any kind. Well, ferrets […]
Well, I think it’s safe to say the 2011 ice-fishing season finally has came to an end here in Sunset Country. Warm weather over the past week finally has lifted winter’s grip on us. The ice looks like it should be out of the big lakes in the area–Lake of […]
It’s two titles down and one more to go for Fort Frances native Kyle Turgeon as he and the rest of the Portage Terriers are headed to the Royal Bank Cup in Camrose, Alta. for a chance to be the top Junior ‘A’ team in all of Canada. Turgeon, an […]
Lucas Punkari After narrowly missing a berth to the all-Ontario badminton championships a year ago, the Muskie senior boys’ badminton duo of Robert Stevens and Spencer Pearce had their sights set on making it to the big dance this time around. The black-and-gold accomplished just that—going 5-0 to capture first […]
Lucas Punkari While a pair of pre-season triumphs over the Rainy River Owls here last Thursday were just what the Muskie boys’ and girls’ soccer teams were hoping for in their first actual game action of the 2011 season, both sides still have a long way to go before they’re […]
Heather Latter You don’t have to be in England to be afflicted with “Royal Wedding Fever.” Many people here in Rainy River District will be tuning into the royal nuptials this Friday—despite the ceremony being in the wee hours of the morning on this side of the Atlantic Ocean. Monica […]
