Yes, I can see it now! Our new astrodome out beyond the new schools and businesses along the highway. Out where big money continues to be spent while our old downtown business district, lacking its former business leaders, continues to languish along Scott Street. Out where it’s already fresh! And […]
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One of the first great memories I have of my relationship with my father was when I was six years old. My dad had been transferred to Kingston, Jamaica as an auditor for the bank. The whole family—me, my mom, and younger brother—picked up and moved into a small gated […]
Different seasons bring different weather conditions. In May and June, we look forward to slow drenching rain to moisten the grounds and have crops spring forth. Such rains usually are followed by warming trends that put heat and lots of humidity into the air. When November comes around, we find […]
Monica Hanzuk, left, and Jean Boileau admired a basket, donated by June Keddie, full of everything you’d need for a winter picnic to the 11th-annual “Spirit of Christmas” on Sunday night at La Place Rendez-Vous. The event brought in about $12,000, which is split between the local branch of the […]
Mason Galusha, 13, spent his morning shovelling out the driveway in front of his home on Third Street West yesterday. A total of eight inches (20 cm) got dumped on Borderland earlier this week—the first real snowfall yet this year. Luckily, there’s only flurries in the forecast for the next […]
Jillian Armstrong, six, showed off her “turtle” constructed of patterns and different shapes at the Esso family math program at the Emo Toy Library and Resource Centre last week, as her father, Murray, looked on. –Heather Ogilvie photo
Scott Walsh played Ebeneezer Scrooge and Justin Anderson the Ghost of Christmas Future in a performance of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” by the Grade 7/8 French Immersion class at St. Francis School last night. The performance was in support of the Holy Childhood Association. —Melanie Béchard photo
Young Trey Beninger, three, is at the first stage of his future career as a Toronto Maple Leaf, skating circles in the CanSkate One class at the Ice for Kids Arena here yesterday evening. —Jenni Condon photo
David Elwood Dow Carr, 75, of Harrisonburg, Va., passed away Saturday, Nov. 19, 2005 at the V.A. Hospital in Martinsburg, W.Va. Mr. Carr was born Oct. 24, 1930 in Genoa, Va., and was a son of the late David Daniel and Bertha Phillips Carr. He was a watch-maker, farmer, logger, […]
Carol Margaret Dungey was called to be with the Lord on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2005, surrounded by her loving family, after a short but courageous battle with cancer. Carol was born Sept. 4, 1941 in Emo, Ont. to Clifford and Beatrice Crawford. On Oct. 15, 1959, Carol married the love […]
Brenda Kay Van Guse, 46, of International Falls, Mn., passed away Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005 at home, surrounded by family and friends, after a year-long battle with cancer. She was born May 31, 1959, in Yakima, Wash. Brenda spent her time as a professional volunteer working to help other people. […]
On Sunday, Nov. 27, 2005, with her family at her side, Thelma Victoria Laycox went to be with Christ. Thelma was born June 23, 1913 in St. Vincent Township, Ont. to Henry and Mary Adams. She was raised in Owen Sound, Ont. and graduated from teachers’ college in Stratford, Ont. […]
