In my day to day activities, you could probably call me a professional truck driver instead of a professional angler. Over the weekend, with the help of my wife Shelby, we drove from Kenora to Clayton, New York for a Bassmaster tournament this week on the St. Lawrence River. It […]
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Whenever I hear of or discover a great gardening tip I like to share it with my readers and you can be sure that I never provide a tip unless I have tried it first. 1. Two Crops – One Planting Sometimes you can get a second crop from some […]
Most of us who have had children are familiar with Goodnight Moon. The book was originally published in 1947, written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. I was surprised by its publishing date. I read the book to my children no less than 3,759 times, a story […]
The community and district witnessed the heroic efforts volunteering makes in times of a pending disaster. From May through mid June volunteers from less than five years of age through to octogenarians hefted shovels, carried sandbags, built dikes along streets and homes and went home after a gruelling day to […]
Lou Brock was somewhere in St. Louis. I was in a hotel room in Houston, on deadline, sweating over writing a story about him for Maclean’s Magazine. At the 11th hour, he returned my call. Stop the press. Brock was hard to catch in those days, by pitchers and catchers […]
July has arrived and our long weekend is already over. Though the weather was decent for the weekend, I am still longing for those warm summer nights. Instead, we are still packing on sweatshirts and longer pants. I sure am counting on a long, beautiful fall. My mom and I […]
The Emo Museum is holding a pie and coffee fundraiser this Friday, July 8 from noon to 3 p.m. All proceeds are to help the Rainy River District Women’s Institute Museum. The Museum opened July 4 and is open for the summer. Admission is a free-will offering. Come out and […]
The bass tournament season is officially underway across Sunset Country as the Shoal Lake Bass Classic took place over the past weekend. As I mentioned in last week’s column, this tournament has been taking place the first weekend in July since the early 90’s and has been a weekend that […]
Aphids are common pests to house plants, vegetables, annual and perennial flowers, ornamental trees and shrubs. They can often be found in the garden, on trees and shrubs and sometimes on houseplants. Look for aphids on susceptible plants in the late spring. If they are present they can often be […]
We will celebrate Canada Day on Friday and it should be a day of great excitement that relates to our freedoms and policies that governments over time have made. The US supreme court decision on Roe-v-Wade on Friday marked a significant difference in how we as Canadians view abortion and […]
It seems with greater frequency I am telling the story of fallen comrades. “We are of an age,” I am told, though that offers little comfort. When someone leaves us in our youth, the shock is severe, the heartache suffocating, but it was rare, thankfully, and we were observers of […]
Ah summer. Isn’t it grand? I stepped out the door this morning and the smell of drying grass and petunias assailed me. Then the aroma of ripening raspberries tickled my palate so I stepped into the patch to partake of my morning aperitif.Nothing sets up your palate for toast and […]
