In Spring, I find myself missing home more than maybe I do the rest of the year. Maybe. It isn’t so much about my childhood home, but rather the farm, the river, spring calves, dandelions. In April, play was all about water, about melting snow, of the spring run-off racing […]
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From a distance we have been watching the weather in Fort Frances. To say the least, the past two weeks have been a trial for district residents with heavy wet snow loads, torrential rain and over the past weekend, flooding. We have missed those weather-related issues, but have experienced snow, […]
It was an absolute cacophony of sound when I walked up to the Debating Table at the Bakery in Rainy River the other morning. All ten voices were going at once, talking…no… shouting over each other. Envelopes were being waved and fists pounded on the table. Cups were sloshing and […]
I don’t ever remember stopping a cattle sale for lightening, but we did this past Saturday. What a week of weather and it doesn’t sound like we are through it all yet. To say this has been a tough spring in an understatement. Our springtime calvers are fighting every day […]
The rain and snow that hit over the weekend left many roads washed out and water in basements. The Municipality was quick to respond; Sunday saw Neil MacDonald and Brody Strachan out grading the roads and making the best of a bad and a disastrous situation. I’d like to thank […]
It’s the end of April and we’re still talking about snow and winter weather. It just doesn’t seem right. Maybe this week, we’ll start to see some sun and warmer weather? Late last week a few friends invited me on a road trip to head west to Saskatchewan to spend […]
Now what? Now that Guy Lafleur is gone, who will be next to catch the torch that is symbolically passed from the greatest of Montreal’s French Canadiens? For the first time in eight decades, there is no active nor retired player ready to be that “legend of legends.” Since Lafleur’s […]
The first race horse I became attached to was Nancy Hawk, a filly so frisky and so gifted she could have been named after my girlfriend (now wife), and there has only been a few since then — horses, not wives — who were special. Two, actually. I watched and […]
I do not know how the rest of you felt but it seemed like we should be watching for Rudolph not the Easter Bunny. I have set up my Easter Hunt with snow on the ground before, but I am quite sure that was when Easter landed in March. Some […]
The annual Spring Fever Days takes place in Emo this weekend (April 22 and 23). There will be a hub of activities and great sales on many items with all merchants from all businesses. One traditional event is the Emo Legion hosting its Crafts Galore, this takes place Friday (April […]
The April blizzard we got hit with last week across northwestern Ontario was kind of depressing if I’m being honest. It had already been a brutal winter as far as snowfall so that extra foot last week was really unnecessary. It’s going to set us back at least a couple […]
After two years of Covid panic and the unending winter of 22 while we hid in our caves fearfulof contact with any other plague carrying human, are we ready to step back out into the real world? Is it time for a road trip? How many more booster shots before […]
