For Peter Engberg’s “Wing-N-It,” last Wednesday (June 6) was a night of firsts. In his first sail of the season, he won Week 3 of the Rendezvous Yacht Club’s Spring Series. “Wing-N-It” is a Lindberg 26, which completed the race in 22 minutes, 24 seconds. Following Engberg were Quinn McCarthy […]
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Two southern Ontario men have been fined $5,000 and banned from hunting for two years for illegal moose hunting. Alain Brisson, 52, of Embrun, and Andre Brunet, 61, of St. Eugene, pleaded guilty to hunting cow moose without cow tags, abandoning the kill, and allowing the meat to spoil. Court […]
JEWELL–Lee and Katharine, nee Kellough, of Acton, ON proudly announce the safe arrival of their twin boys, Nathan Frederick John, weighing 4 lbs. 9 oz. and William Lloyd Samuel, weighing 4 lbs. 1.5 oz. at Oakville Hospital on Friday, April 27, 2007. God’s loving gift & double blessing for grandparents […]
OLSON–Born to Kevin Olson and Jodie Hoskins of Saskatoon, Sask., a girl, Megan Elizabeth, weighing 6 lbs. 13 oz. on May 13, 2007 at Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, SK.
HOLDEN–Born to Brad and Jodi, nee Steele, of Fort Frances, ON, a boy, Grady James, weighing 10 lbs. 7 oz. on May 18, 2007 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
ROSE–Born to Tom Rose and Laurel Chabot, of Couchiching, ON, a girl, Jersey Nicole, weighing 6 lbs. 2 oz. on June 6, 2007 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
BARKER–Born to Jon and Ashley, nee Giles, of Devlin, ON., a boy, Tristan Jeremiah, weighing 8 lbs. 9 oz. on June 8, 2007 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, ON.
Deannie Lynyk comes from Ottawa with a great appreciate for horses of the therapeutic variety (i.e., the kind that can cause crippled riders to feel better). I’d met Deannie before at McDonald’s and shared her interest in Ottawa since I attended Carleton U. there after the Second World War. She […]
Last Saturday, my friend, Metta, forwarded an e-mail that one of her friends had forwarded to her. The e-mail began with “I guarantee you will remember this tale of the Wooden Bowl tomorrow, a week from now, a month from now, a year from now.” A frail old man went […]
If at bedtime you find your husband lying prone and beating his chest with a pair of drumsticks, it can mean one of two things—either he’s in the mood for more than music or the “Rock Star” energy drink is taking effect. Knowing my neck of the woods, life’s like […]
I have been following very closely the water levels on Rainy Lake this year. The amount of water that flows from Rainy Lake affects the water levels of the Rainy River and then Lake of the Woods. As a boater, just after ice-out, I had trouble getting to and from […]
Pat Oltsher passed away Sunday, June 10, 2007 at the age of 52 at the Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital in Burlington, Ont. Pat was born Sept. 8, 1954 in Fort Frances, Ont., and was predeceased by his parents, Paul (1969) and Kathleen (Kay) (1993) Oltsher. He will be lovingly remembered […]
