If you follow media in the fishing community at all you have surely heard about the crazy cheating scandal in a walleye tournament on Lake Erie a few weeks ago. Two anglers, who have experienced significant success over the past few years in the Lake Erie Walleye Trail brought their […]
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Most people consider ants to be pests. They are not a direct pest to plants but their burrows in the soil can loosen the roots of young plants and cause them to die. But on the positive side if you have heavy clay soil these burrows can break up the […]
Ask the Money Lady
My son who is in his mid-twenties with two degrees in physics and mathematics, seems to think he can take on the stock market through options trading, so today we are going to talk about this type of investment strategy. Options and forwards are quite a complicated model even though […]
This weather sure should be making us all very thankful! If only there was a way to keep it especially since by the end of the week, I will have a corral full of calves to be weaned. The forecast doesn’t look so promising, but I am holding out with […]
Dance the night away this Friday (October 14) at the Emo Legion Branch #99. The music is supplied by Phil Schram’s karaoke machine. The dance starts at 7p.m. and ends around 10 p.m. The next Country Jam is October 21st. at the Emo Legion. Doors open at 7 p.m. admission […]
In my final season as a baseball writer, my newspaper — the Montreal Star — was on strike. I was also freelancing for Montreal radio station CJAD, writing scripts for Expos Manager Dick Williams to read after every game, followed by an on-air conversation the next morning. The strike that […]
The final Sunset Country bass tournament of the season took place Saturday on Lake of the Woods with the tenth annual Frank McClymont Memorial tournament. This is a one day tournament that has become very popular in recent years. Part of the reason for the popularity is because tournament organizer […]
As the growing season comes to an end there are still many gardening tasks to carry out before the snow flies. Due to the unpredictable summer conditions we have faced, our lawns have taken a beating this past season, so a little fall preparation will get them up to snuff […]
I am writing this column from Calgary. We are with our two grand daughters, aged three and one, who are celebrating birthdays this week. We began our travels on Thursday in the darkness of the early morning unable to see how the crop harvest was proceeding in the western end […]
The second annual National Truth and Reconciliation Day has passed – September 30th. It was a single day, though every day qualifies, to honour lost children and survivors of residential schools. Events and gatherings were organized in many locales. The simplest way to honour, to share, to show support was […]
Naicatchewenin (Northwest Bay) Held another successful fishing tournament last Friday and Saturday (September 30 and October 11). A total of 26 teams fished and when the final weigh-ins were completed the top team was Duff and Tyler Mosbeck taking home $4,000. Second place was taken by Leroy Wilson and Mike […]
His name was David Green, and probably still is. He was the Canadian Football League’s outstanding player and I was going to impart some football wisdom — in my world known as wise and useless media advice — that would serve him well. “David,” I recall saying (approximately), after we’d […]
