ALLEN–Born to Stewart and Melanie, nee Pruys, of Fort Frances, Ont., a boy, Marcus Kalan, weighing 6 lbs. 14 oz. on March 11, 2005 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
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As if I didn’t already have enough sideshows in my neck of the woods, a nine-week-old puppy has been added to our family circus. “Griffon,” a border collie/German shepherd mix, was introduced to this household 14 days ago and with him came that unbridled, unabandoned gusto known only to puppies […]
It can be absorbing following the NCAA’s annual “March Madness” tournament, but it can be an arduous task, too. How can they expect us to keep track of 64 teams (128 if you’re also following the women’s bracket)? To keep track of their stats and records? To keep track of […]
Do the Thunder’s four-straight wins over the Dryden Ice Dogs signal a rebirth of our half-century old “Allan Cup fever?” Now add in our high school Muskies competing at the all-Ontarios starting today and decide whether our old “Hockey Town Canada” here is still alive and kicking! Our big year, […]
Why not burn the candle at both ends? Burning the candle at both ends has always appealed to me. After all, you get twice as much light that way. Says Edna St. Vincent Millay, “My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, […]
The birds are back in town. Yes, spring is on its way. The return of the seagulls, much like the return of the swallows to Capistrano, marks the end of winter here. The ice still may be frozen on the lakes, but those gulls are squawking their excitement at being […]
Our trip started on March 10 at 6 a.m. in the middle of a snowstorm with a bus ride to Winnipeg. The atmosphere on the bus was vibrating with excitement until people started drifting off to sleep. Then it was very quiet right up to the outskirts of Winnipeg. At […]
If last week’s Easter Market is any indication of the season to come, vendors at the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market here will be able to put last year’s generally poor one behind them. At least, that was the opinion of market manager Deb Cornell. She said attendance for the annual […]
Having given current holders a few weeks to renew their passports for the 2005-06 season, tour de Fort organizers will be selling any extra ones to the public on Saturday, April 2. The sale will be held at the Fort Frances Public Library from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., or while supplies […]
The proposed skate park project took another step forward Monday night after town council approved having it built to the north of the Memorial Sports Centre—not to the east of it. “If we were to locate the site here, there are two major concerns,” Community Services manager George Bell said […]
