Dear sir: This is a letter for the disturbed individual who chose to throw a sealed box with four baby kittens out on the River Road on Feb. 20. We found the abandoned babies, and also found homes for all four within an hour of rescuing them. Perhaps in the […]
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Dear sir: I’m wondering if the Christmas tree by the post office is still burning bright to comfort those attempting to recuperate from Christmas debt? And if we are going to continue paying to light this tree, could we perhaps have seasonal colours—like purple for Lent, and maybe yellow, turquoise, […]
Success in recruiting and retaining physicians is crucial to the future health of Fort Frances, so it’s comforting to see town council and others finally waking up to the urgency of the problem. True, this situation did not crop up overnight. The local physician recruitment and retention committee has been […]
Joyce Gosselin of Fort Frances has added a gold medal to her haul at the 2005 Special Olympics Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. Gosselin took top honours today in the 100m snowshoe event—her favourite. She crossed the finish line in a time of 1:07.55, which was .16 seconds slower than […]
“It’s all shrinking,” he said. “I take it that’s a compliment, right honey?” I queried, raising my eyebrow. I couldn’t help but think out loud of a fine elderly woman named Joyce whose saying about the perfect breast size was “More than a handful is too much.” “That depends on […]
As the old saying goes, “Be careful for what you wish!” At the recent “community summit” here, Michael Atkins, publisher of Northern Ontario Business, offered this idea: “If the business community does not believe it is the job to renew its community, then it probably won’t happen.” Several years ago, […]
When I go to the Internet to research a topic or check my e-mail, I often get an instant message from my cousin, who signs himself as “your cutest and youngest cousin, Ed.” We chat about the weather in Pennsylvania and his job. He tells me what’s going on with […]
