Local calves sold at healthy prices during last Saturday’s auction at Stratton, further re-enforcing the revamped cattle barn as a viable part of the area’s beef market. “This is the highest market I’ve seen this fall. These six-week cattle are getting $900–everything’s a good $100 more now,” said Jeff McSherry, […]
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Pickup trucks pulled up to the big tent at Hannam Park in Rainy River on Saturday only minutes before the 1 p.m. registration deadline as owners of the district’s biggest pumpkins wanted to keep them under wraps as long as possible. In total, 48 pumpkins were entered in the sixth-annual […]
Jeff Gillon, Community Investment manager for the Rainy River Future Development Corp. here, believes the economic impact local farming has on Rainy River District is one very few people know much about. “The farming industry provides income and revenue to people across the district, and is not restricted to one […]
The Bufflehead is a very small duck, with the males weighing a pound and females still smaller. Many of you hunters will know these as “butterballs.” This is because, in the fall, they store up a large amount of fat for use during the long migration south. The male bird […]
By Linda Wiens
Quetico Centre
Quetico Centre
Construction of the new regional hospital is proceeding energetically. It will be big, beautiful, and as state-of-the-art as our public and private purses allow. Actually, I hope even a little more so. Now explorations are underway about whether we should have a northern medical school, and whether we should have […]
Bicycles are associated with more childhood injuries than any other consumer product other than the automobile. Each year in Canada and the United States, hundreds of children aged 14 and under are killed in bicycle-related incidents and more than 400,000 are injured. Some 90 percent of bicycle-related deaths are the […]
“Remember, there’s no such thing as more time,” the seminar leader said in her most emphatic tone. It was a seminar on public presentations, given by a leader with the best of skills in that area. Among other things, she underscored that if you’ve been asked to speak for 15 […]
Mike Baranowski
The Way It Is
The Way It Is
Maybe, just maybe, I’ll change over to musky tournaments now that the survival rate is almost guaranteed 100 percent. A customer of mine, Jim Groves, asked me to be his partner at a musky tournament at Cass Lake, Mn. But knowing the survival rate was low, I refused his invitation. […]
Elfva E. Larson, 87, of Atikokan, Ont., passed away at Atikokan General Hospital in Atikokan on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2000. She was born June 1, 1913 in Fort Frances, Ont., to Sven (Swan) E. and Stina Carlson. On Jan. 8, 1931, she was united in marriage to Edmond Walter Larson […]
James Henry “Chub” Hyatt Jr., 79, formerly of Devlin, Ont., passed away peacefully at Rainycrest Home for the Aged in Fort Frances, Ont., on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2000.
Jake Kehler, 76, of 301 Kerr Place, Fort Frances, Ont., passed away at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2000. He was born Jan. 7, 1924 in Altona, Man. to the late Henry and Sarah Kehler. Jake worked in Thunder Bay, Ont. as a diesel […]
Jeremiah Gene (Jeremy) Tucker, of Barrie, Ont. and formerly of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away suddenly as a result of an auto accident on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2000 in his 27th year. Beloved husband and best friend of Carla (Gutta); dear son of Terrie and Ronald Tucker; dear son-in-law of […]
