Its spring and the roadsides and lawns will soon be turning a beautiful yellow. Time for a rededication. It’s that time of year again when the lawn warrior girds himself for battle. Weapons belt bristling with digger, snippers, three varieties of weed killer, and other assorted instruments of war, the […]
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Well, I made the mistake of looking at the weather for next week thinking that we are going to be closer to getting on land. I just hope the predictions are wrong. May makes me think of warm sunshine and green grass. Hopefully by the end of the week that […]
The Rainy River District Agriculture Fall Fair will take place August 18-20 this fall. The Fair Board, volunteers, and all participants are working diligently to make sure it’s up and running with a full roster of events. There is something for everyone. The 2022 Fair Queen committee is looking for […]
What is meant by interrelationships of species? In nature, knowing animal and plant behaviour and how they interact with each other is more important than knowing the names of many species. Most of us are familiar with the predator-prey relationship, which is just the beginning of multiple connections. But we’ll […]
The big lefthander dropped his baseball socks, the white ones ballplayers wear from ankle to only knee, visible when the player pulls up the stirrups, or outer socks. The white ones are like the underwear of baseball socks, to be picked up and washed by the batboy. Then the big […]
It’s hard to believe the open water fishing season is still at least a couple weeks away for most lakes across the region. Typically by early May we’re able to launch the boat and start fishing for lake trout, pike, crappie and bass. After a long winter, everybody is eager […]
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 […]
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 […]
