Evelyn Mary Stearns (nee Lewis), of Rainycrest Long-Term Care in Fort Frances, Ont., passed away peacefully at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. Evelyn was born Aug. 17, 1925 in Winnipeg, Man. and lived most of her life in the Elmwood area. Evelyn had […]
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It is with our deepest sadness to announce the passing of our dearly-beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, cousin, niece, and best friend on the morning of Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Man. Her loving husband, Nelson, of 27 years will miss her so much. […]
Tracy Roen Dear editor: I am writing with huge concerns for the safety of our children. Coming home from work last Wednesday, I witnessed a small girl, about seven years of age, on the five-foot snowbank walking home on Keating Avenue. She struggled as her friend followed her and quick […]
Brett Lessard Dear editor: On the evening of Jan. 4, I was travelling on Highway 11 to my home in Bears Pass, east of Fort Frances, around 8 p.m. As I rounded a significant right-hand curve, about one km east of Highway 502, my vehicle suddenly died and came to […]
Delores Romyn Dear editor: I am doing a follow-up on the letter which appeared in the Dec. 29 edition of the Times about the Stratton Centennial history book. I was on the Stratton Centennial Committee and did my job. The person on the history book did not do theirs. Everyone’s […]
Coun. Ken Perry Dear editor: I must agree with Christine Hampton. The streets and sidewalks in the downtown area need some attention. So does the 50 or so other kilometres of roadway in town and the more than 40 km of associated sidewalks that are not in the downtown core. […]
Dorothy Hayes Dear editor: I would like to thank the person who retrieved my black, multi-coloured wallet from the Safeway parking lot on the morning of Dec. 29 with my valuables still inside. Not a lot of money but most important, my Safeway card and Air Miles card, which I […]
People gripe. It may not be one of our better traits, but it’s a fact of life. The issue drawing the ire of many residents these days, of course, has been the town’s snow removal efforts in the wake of the back-to-back blizzards that dumped more than a foot of […]
“It’s long distance!” used to tell you the telephone call was important. When making a Christmas long distance call, you were connected from operator to operator. It often took several attempts to go across the country. In our household, the timer was set on the stove to tell us when […]
By Gary Sliworsky Ag rep, Emo Another year has come and gone, and this is your annual reminder about taking year-end farm inventories. Many businesses take year-end inventories of goods on hand—and farm businesses are no exception. Producers, don’t forget to get inventories on your livestock, home-grown grains and forages, […]
January is the month in which people most commonly suffer from sadness. It’s certainly the time when depressing questions tend to cycle around in my head: Will I sell articles this month? What will the future hold? What about that waterline that keeps freezing? The only way I’m able to […]
In December, I mentioned the book, “The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun.” In this book, author Gretchen Rubin details her one-year Happiness Project and in 12 chapters (one for […]
