In response to a letter from the Rainy River District School Board, the Town of Fort Frances put together a list of items it would like to see in the public school’s board 2005-06 budget. The report, approved by council at its regular meeting Monday night, included input from three […]
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First, the good news: the provincial government finally has acknowledged that the forestry industry in Northwestern Ontario is in crisis. The bad news is the McGuinty Liberals have taken the wrong tack in trying to solve the problem. “The forest industry in Ontario is in crisis,” reads the first line […]
Dear editor: Allan Kielczewski seems to be on a “Letter to the Editor” writing campaign (“Missed Point,” April 13, 2005, “My Thoughts,” May 18, 2005, and “Point Missed,” June 1, 2005), yet his letters clearly show he doesn’t do his own homework. You see, if he had done his homework, […]
Dear sir (and the entire community for that matter): Can I please point out that we, as a collective community, can’t seem to hang on to a decent sports reporter for more than a year? Hmmm, maybe it’s because we chase them out of town with our “pitchforks a wavin’” […]
Dear editor: The bandwagon of local smoking bans now steamrolling across the nation has nothing to do with protecting people from the supposed threat of “second-hand” smoke. Indeed, the bans themselves are symptoms of a far more grievous threat, a cancer that has been spreading for decades throughout the body […]
Bill MacLaurin, owner of the K&A Golden Hawks and now owner of the new Schreiber Stars, said he would have “no objections at all” if the Borderland Thunder wanted to return to the Superior International Junior Hockey League. “When the Thunder decided to leave, I felt that somebody had to […]
“The forest industry in Ontario is in crisis. Action is urgently required to prevent predictable and irreversible consequences for communities, businesses, and workers.” This is the opening paragraph to the Final Report from the Minister’s Council on Forest Sector Competitiveness, a report commissioned by Natural Resources minister David Ramsay back […]
What do you give the person who has given you everything you have? I’ve been racking my brains to answer this, but so far I’ve come up with zilch, nadda, nothing. Usually, I have plenty of gift ideas, but when it comes to him I’m clueless. I mean, what do […]
There are two more things that I now know for sure. Drinking too many margaritas is stupid and buying a “Weber” barbecue in excellent condition for $2.50 is not. Last weekend was our annual garage sale trek to the small lakeside community in Minnesota where my brother and his family […]
We can count Christopher Columbus, Julius Caesar, Caruso the great singer, Marconi, who invented the overseas radio, and even Al Capone, who once ruled Chicago, among our forebears. While only half-way Italian myself, I say our old heroes had to be acknowledged world-wide—and sometimes when “the grapa she’s a-flowing good,” […]
I’ll never forget the soul-piercing sound of the ambulance that morning as it screamed and wailed, making its way with incredible speed to a bedroom of no hope. Just the afternoon before, we’d gone out to coffee and talked about things that mattered. We’d laughed and reminisced and dreamed about […]
