When I think back to my days in high school and my March break activities, fun fishing trips come to mind. Heading south on Lake of the Woods via the ice road to catch walleyes, lake trout fishing north of Kenora or the annual trip to Nestor Falls to catch […]
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Gordon Pinsent has died. We weren’t friends, I realize, and maybe you weren’t friends with him either, but he felt like family. He would have been that uncle who snuck candy to us when we were little and let us stay up late when he was in charge and wasn’t […]
One of the recommendations I received on retirement was to start a new hobby and create new friends. For over forty years, I had not played a single hand of bridge before being encouraged by Walter Horban to again begin learning the game just before Covid struck. I just didn’t […]
Spring teas and time change are all signs of spring, not to mention Spring break for students in the Rainy River District, this years March break is March 13-17. Another sure sign of spring is teas that are already planned for. There will be a Shamrock Tea and Bake Sale […]
Well calves came steady last week with just a few bumps along the way. Most days I do my farm work during the day and then when it is dark, I do my other jobs on the computer. Friday night I was feeling tired so I thought I would relax […]
When starting seeds indoors you do not have to worry about the weather, insects or the myriad of plant diseases and fungi that can affect your outdoor vegetables, trees or flowers, but there is one disease that you must be concerned with when starting seedlings in the house or greenhouse […]
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 […]
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 […]
