LINKLATER–Born to Randy and Michelle, nee Bruyere, of Fort Frances, Ont., a boy, Jadyn Ernest Joseph, weighing 7 lbs.12 oz. on June 12, 2008 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
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Peacefully, on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont., Donald R. Penney of Fort Frances, formerly of Stratton, Ont. and Atikokan, Ont., passed away at the age of 72. He was born in Stratton to the late George and Marguerite Penney. Over the years, Donald […]
A memorial service for the late Dorothy Adeline Haines will be held Monday, June 30, 2008 at 2 p.m. at Guthrie United Church in Devlin, Ont. Rev. Francis Flook will officiate, with interment to follow in Emo Cemetery in Emo, Ont. Should family and friends so desire, in memoriam donations […]
They are all orphans. Mother and father probably died of HIV. Or perhaps they were raped and murdered in front of the now orphans. Maybe they are not orphans, but simply abandoned by parents hopelessly impoverished or by elderly grandparents who no longer could cope. They may have been living […]
Barwick will celebrate Canada Day on Tuesday (July 1). An eight-team baseball tournament will take place beginning at 9:30 a.m. while the always popular parade starts at noon sharp at the municipal office. Children must be registered in the “Kiddie Parade” division in order to win prizes. The top prize […]
Summer is less than a week old and already the pages of the Sears Fall/Winter catalogue are bent and crinkled as society tugs at us to plan what we are going to wear five and six months from now. And here I am behind the times again, having just found […]
For many years now, deep tillage implements have been suggested as tools that can be used to loosen soil and improve crop yields. These implements can provide some benefit by loosening soil compaction, but they really are prescription tools and not to be used at will. Similar to a prescription […]
Here we are again. It’s wood-tick season. I imagine most folk think of ticks as insects. Well, they aren’t. In fact, they are related to spiders, scorpions, mites, and so on—all of which are classified as Arachnids. Arachnids have either eight or 10 legs while insects get along with only […]
As the final entry of my three-part series on shellfish, this column will focus on mollusks. If you missed either two of my previous columns on crustaceans (crab, lobster, prawns, shrimp, crayfish, etc.), please e-mail me at dez@chefdez.com and I will be more than happy to send them to you. […]
A really cool opportunity came up for me late last week. I got invited down to Bemidji, Mn. by my friend, John Peterson, president of Northland Fishing Tackle, to take part in the shooting of a promotional video for some of the new products they are releasing later this year. […]
Well, another NHL season and subsequent draft are in the books. All that’s left now is the impending free agency frenzy beginning July 1, which is sure to see more big names change addresses in the new NHL salary cap world. As expected, Steven Stamkos went first overall to the […]
So now that we have a bit of background on what the Internet is and where it came from, and how all this ties in with the World Wide Web, I would like to invite any questions or comments from you. Hopefully I can address them all in this column, […]
