Dear Mike: Three months after I moved to Fort Frances, I was presented with a bill from the town for a sidewalk re-build in front of my new house three years prior. Of course, I was a little upset that none of this was identified by the town during my […]
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Former long-time councillor Sharon Tibbs, a mayoral candidate in the last municipal election, raises some excellent points in her Letter to the Editor this week that offers her take on the raging debate over higher sewer and water rates town council is mulling over. Lost sight in the bickering amongst […]
JERRY–Born to Shane Jerry and Amanda Claydon, of Fort Frances, Ont., a girl, Shaylynn Dawn, weighing 5 lbs. 11 oz. on June 24, 2005 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont. LANGEVIN–Born to Patrick Langevin and Celine Cardinal, of Fort Frances, Ont., a girl, Marie-Mai, weighing 9 lbs. 4 […]
Last July 4 was the happiest day of my 23-year-long life. That’s when Greece captured the Euro Cup title (that’s soccer, ladies and gentleman) with a win over Portugal—giving the team of blue-and-white the distinction of being the most unlikely of squads to have ever won an international tournament. “Impossible […]
Remember the old 1970s game show, “Let’s Make a Deal”? If I’d have been a contestant and Monty Hall picked me, I would have raked in the dough because everything he’d have asked for I would have had in my purse. Even today, I still could make money off of […]
On July 6, 2000, I woke up energized and went to a 6:30 a.m. yoga class. After class, my daughter and I stopped at the deli to get our Thursday breakfast treat—fresh bagels and cream cheese. Once home, I made a pot of coffee, and my husband joined us in […]
Al Meline, even to his end, believed he had another day of fishing on Lake of the Woods. Fishing was his passion, and any day he spent fishing was the best day of his life. After he had lost the use of his first kidney, and was on dialysis, Alan […]
