Bidding was strong and prices were high as close to 950 head of cattle moved through the Stratton sales yard Saturday at the second-annual spring sale held by the Rainy River Cattlemen’s Association. Buyers’ row was close to full when the sale started, with the first head of cattle being […]

KBHW Radio in International Falls will hold a charity auction at the Bob Walls Memorial Union Hall there to raise support specifically for the physical needs of its building and radio maintenance. “The facility has served us extremely well in the 15 years of our existence,” noted station manager Bruce […]

How can you live without time? Or more accurately, how can you live without a time “piece”? That’s the question I had to ask myself many times last week high in the Colorado Rockies. To begin with, my wristwatch kept perfect time, faithfully signalling one activity after another. But then […]

Well men, we’ve had the biscuit. Done. Kaput. We’re obsolete. We may be wanted but soon we won’t be needed. First a little background. For hundreds of centuries, two genders had to be in intimate contact for reproduction. Men were the hunters and warriors. Women tended the hearth and nurtured […]

There are probably more stories about the wolverine than any other mammal in America. It is supposed to have amazing strength, be extremely intelligent, and have a very ugly disposition.Whether these stories are all true or not, no one really knows. The wolverine is the shadow in the deep woods, […]

Morris Demetro Derhak passed away at Oshawa General Hospital on Monday, April 20, 1998 in his 70th year. He was the beloved husband of Eveline Deagne; loved father of Katherine Derhak of Oshawa, William Derhak of Courtice, and Allen Derhak of Waterloo; and dear brother of Rudy Derhak of Thunder […]

Mr. Robert “Bob” Eugene Simmik, 61, went into the arms of Jesus on April 19, 1998 after a lengthy illness. Born in Fort Frances, Ont., he went to Thunder Bay, Ont. at the age of 17 to finish his schooling at Fort William Vocational School. It was there that he […]

Jergen Aslak Mosley, 80, of 134 Pine Cres., Atikokan, Ont., passed away Sunday, April 19, 1998 at the Atikokan General Hospital. He was born in Fort Frances, Ont. on April 26, 1918, the eldest son of Ole and Guro Mosley. On Nov. 14, 1939, he married Phoebe Armstrong. He served […]

Donald Oliver Cross, 66, passed away suddenly Saturday, April 18, 1998 in Atikokan, Ont. He was born to Winnifred and Herb Cross on June 30, 1931 in the Barwick Hotel. Don lived most of his life in the Atikokan area, where he was employed as a truck driver and heavy […]

Amber was born 100 years after her great-grandmother (Amber’s my granddaughter). As I watch her grow, I wonder, “What will her world be like?” Amber’s great-grandmother was born in 1896, when the average Canadian lived 47 years. For most, electricity was unknown. Cars were toys of the rich. Airplanes hadn’t […]

After breezing though the competition the last two seasons, only to suffer upsetting losses to Kenora in the NorWOSSA semi-finals each time, Muskie girls’ soccer coach Struchan Gilson decided some changes were in order. While he would be the first to admit his team definitely was the better one, they […]