After a few weeks of fishing in my boat, it was actually nice to get back on the ice over the past week since I returned home from my first couple of bass tournaments of the 2023 season. We’ve finally hit that point in the winter where we can see […]
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Unless there’s an upset of enormous proportions this week, the Brier will not be won by Saskatchewan for the 43rd consecutive year. In the mid-20th century, this would have been even more unimaginable than the Toronto Maple Leafs and their current Stanley Cup drought. Those were the days when Saskatchewan, […]
Spring training was once where baseball players went to get the old body in shape for the 162 games that abuse it. Major leaguer players — much like Canadian football players — had winter jobs to subsidize the family budget, or at least pay the green fees in Florida or […]
Who is taking up the tourism development leadership in Fort Frances and across the district? Over a period of more than eight decades, various groups have organized to attract tourists to our side of Borderland. Reaching back to the late 1930’s the Fort Frances Jaycee began attending sport shows in […]
I survived my trip to Toronto and thankfully so did all my helpers and my animals. The first day away was by far the worst. As I left that morning I had a cow calving but she did very little all day so we thought it was a false alarm. […]
Sturgeon Creek School hosted three schools for an archery competition, including Mine Centre, Crossroads and Donald Young Saturday February 24. Mr. Robert Kinsman was the teacher in charge of the competition and those competing. There were shots at a distance of 8 m for a total of 30 arrows. The […]
Maple syrup season is underway here in Nova Scotia. The pails are hanging in the trees, the taps are drilled and for the serious maple syrup producers, the lines of hose are strung through the forest like a web, all relying on gravity on their way to the sugar shack. […]
The second of back-to-back Bassmaster Elite Series events took place over the weekend at Lake Seminole in South Georgia. After a solid start the week before at Lake Okeechobee in Florida, we came up a few ounces short of making the top 50 day three cut last week, finishing up […]
The Prairie Garden Committee is excited to announce that the 2023, 84th annual edition, of the Prairie Garden periodical, entitled, “Climate-Aware Gardening”, was released in early November and is available to order. Order your copy and one for your favourite gardener today by visiting the website: www.theprairiegarden.com, or email – […]
Almost everyone loves good Chinese take-out food, so in my most recent cookbook, Cooking Around the World with Chef Dez, I included a whole chapter on this. In that chapter you will learn how to make all your favourites at home, including this most popular recipe for Chicken Chop Suey. […]
I grew up on Third Street behind the Sportsplex and the bush began just behind the alleyway. It was my playground. Our neighbour once shot a deer from his back step, but we never saw any deer in the bush as we travelled the area from Third Street to the […]
I have felt certain about very few things, if any, in my life, and I saw this conundrum of mine as a personality flaw, in that my uncertainty made me malleable and wishy-washy, incapable of having a firm opinion on any subject, none of which seemed like good traits to […]
