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Okay, class, hands up everyone who knows Premier Mike Harris has resigned and the Ontario Progressive Conservatives are in the midst of a leadership race to replace him? Not bad. All right, hands up everyone who can name the five candidates vying to succeed Mr. Harris—and become Ontario’s next premier […]

We were still chasing the Allan Cup in 1951 when I first met Colin Russell in Owen Sound. Now there’s a man right out of our local Atlantis lore! Our Canadians had, by now, broken hockey fans’ hearts all the way to the Pacific, but here we were in the […]

The congregation at the Christian Reformed Church in Emo welcomed Rev. Harold and Joanne DeJong as guest speaker for both the morning and evening worship services last Sunday (Jan. 13). The couple, hailing from Dispatch, Kan., also visited with Harold’s mother, Nellie DeJong, at the Golden Age Manor, as well […]

As most everyone knows by now, after last Saturday, Fort Frances will be forever known to Canadians as the only town in the country to have been founded by the Simpsons. It all started when CBC correspondent Allen Abel, wrapping up a brief live interview with Sambo Fedoruk, captain of […]

Every time you pass the old Fort Frances High School, ask yourself a question: would Rusty Green want to buy that red brick mountain? As it stands here today, big, beautiful, and abandoned—with nobody seemingly interested in whether it lives or dies—why would anyone covet it? And who was Rusty […]

It’s getting a little too easy to be taken in by the romanticist’s view of ice hockey in Canada at this time of year. It’s something CBC’s “Hockey Day in Canada” has been known for in its past two broadcasts: strip down the role of big money and fame, or […]

There’s still time to purchase tickets for the “Sweater of your choice” raffle, organized by the Emo/La Vallee Community Cen-tre fundraising committee, which will be made Jan. 19. The sweater is being hand-knitted by Gail Patterson. After a break for the yuletide season, “Wheels to Meals” resumed its activities last […]

We like to think of ourselves as adventurous, free-spirited, independent beings who long to go wherever the wind may take us. In reality, though, we’re really just pathetic creatures of habit; mired in the cozy security of “the ol’ routine.” And nothing throws a curve ball into the “routine” worse […]

The popular “Wheels to Meals” program at the Emo Legion will resume next Thursday (Jan. 10), beginning with carpet bowling at 10:45 a.m., followed by the meal and card playing. Regular sessions also are slated Jan. 17 and 24, with the first carpet bowling tournament of the new year planned […]

I was not in town last season as the Muskie boys’ hockey team knifed through every team en route to the gold medal at OFSAA ‘A/AA’ showdown in Burlington. So I had a lot to learn about this squad, which has gone through quite the metamorphosis this season. But one […]

One of my favourite tasks as editor is to thumb back through the past 51 issues to come up with the top 10 stories of the year. And what never ceases to amaze me, year in and year out, is the sheer volume of news that’s appeared in the pages […]

This has been the year of the big comeback. In pro sports, everyone welcomed the return of Mario Lemieux on ice and Michael “Air” Jordan back on the hardcourt. Their fans are still delirious as Canada waits to see Mario score another winning goal in the Olympics. Which all goes […]