Local News from Across the Rainy River District
“I feel bad a lot of the time, and suffer from low self-esteem. Sometimes the pain of being bullied gets so bad that I think about suicide.” So writes a Rainy River District student in a letter to the editor I received yesterday afternoon in which he wishes to address […]
In this “Week of Remembrance,” we, as Canadians, are finding ourselves being increasingly offended by our next-door neighbours who seem to have forgotten quite a lot. While we honour our thousands who fell in two great wars, it seems the Americans—late to enter those wars on our side, remember—are coming […]
A survey, which was available to the public to fill out during Library Week at the Emo Public Library last month, found that 98 percent approved expansion needs. An open house, with free draws, balloons, and cookies/coffee, also was held in conjunction with Library Week. Prize winners included Bernice Campbell, […]
Maybe I am a small ‘c’ conservative when it comes to my tastes in Major League Baseball. In fact, I’ll say it in black-and-white: I hope the New York Yankees come back to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks in the World Series. I’d like to begin by saying I’m not a […]
Poor Jack never stood a chance. In fact, Gen. Custer faced better odds at the Little Big Horn. Jack Tynan, as some of you may know, is leaving Fort Frances for a reporting job in Missouri and, as is tradition here at the Times, there was a going away party […]
As Canada sends our soldiers to war again, I’d recommend that they should be given opportunity to meet Albert Carrier, a great Fort Frances fighter. Coffeeing with Albert here a week ago, I gained fresh respect for him as a survivor as well as a very unique personality. Know anyone […]
Anyone wanting advance tickets to the Borderland Thunder games in Fort Frances, you can now get them at Variety Village here in Emo. It is better than standing in line at the Memorial Sports Centre. What would you do if you received a car for your birthday? Well, without mentioning […]
Not many people will admit to this nowadays but I’m a die-hard, true-blue Montreal Expos fanatic—and have been for as long as I can remember. It was one day shy of my sixth birthday when the Expos played their first game on April 8, 1969. And while I don’t remember […]
We are saddened again by the passing of a pair of our hardest-working citizens in Bill Bailley and Carl Domanski, whom you might identify merely as a couple of our best-known hotelkeepers. Reflect on that remark a moment and much, much more can certainly come to mind regarding the way […]
Every now and then, I delve into my files and pull out something I call the “other notes.” These are things I ask my sources that don’t necessarily pertain to the subject at hand, but still ask in hopes of stumbling upon another angle—or perhaps another story entirely. I never […]
The Knox United Church Women in Emo are having their annual fall tea, bazaar, and bake sale Friday, Nov. 2 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at the church hall. White elephant table will be featured. Admission is $2. Bingo will be held tomorrow (Oct. 25) at the Emo Legion Br. #99. Doors […]
Put bluntly, North Americans have been a lucky lot up until now. Until Sept. 11, we did not have to worry that a flight from Winnipeg to Toronto would be hijacked. We did not have to fear walking past a car that suddenly blows up, or open our mail. We […]
