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 […]
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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 […]
I can barely grasp it is the end of June. I planned to start cutting hay over the weekend, but the weather changed my mind on that. I would have had to bundle up cutting on Sunday because it certainly wasn’t a warm day. I think we are so thankful […]
The always popular “Castin’ For Cash” takes place July 8 and 9 this year. Bill and Nell Godin — proprietors of Lake Despair — along with volunteers, work hard to make sure this is always a successful tournament. There are likely to be about 50 teams competing for the top […]
It was a long winter for area anglers, one that did not seem like it was ever going to end. But after months of waiting, a new bass tournament season is upon us in northwestern Ontario. For all of the anglers who enjoy competitive bass fishing in the Sunset Country […]
In the early weeks of the Canadian football season, much attention is being given — and rightly so – to the new quarterback for the B.C. Lions. He happens to be a “Canadian quarterback,” a species that for decades was almost as rare as the snow leopard. The CFL’s new […]
One word plays in an unending loop in my head these days, for many days, days that add up to years, decades perhaps, and that word is … kindness. I can only imagine the worry and stress Fort Frances residents are experiencing as flooding disrupts life in frightening and chaotic […]
My yard has been neglected over the past couple of decades. The plants that my wife received as a wedding gift from my brother-in-law have seen many revisions and changes. The original elm trees that graced the Victoria side of our home died and we replaced the three trees with […]
I never knew Foster Hewitt, who set the bar for hockey play-by-play radio broadcasters, but I did know Danny Gallivan, who set the bar higher for hockey play-by-play on TV. I think it’s safe to assume that both of them, rest their souls, would be aghast if they could hear […]
Things don’t change much over the years. With the annual run of summer thunder storms pending, I expect Hydro None will be busy pulling downed trees off power lines. Ma Bell has promised to remove the massive dead elm tree threatening to take down the power lines on our street […]
