Many sources tell us how we should have greeted the new year. It feels a bit like too much free advice. Perhaps it is just this year. Celebrities often feel compelled to tell us how to live “our best life”. I tend to think if you don’t have to shovel […]
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Sunday night I predicted to my wife that the grader would fill in my driveway overnight. I made the prediction looking at the buildup of beaten-up snow in the centre of Second Street and the snow that had fallen over the two days in my yard and the drifting that […]
After checking on my burgeoning crop of rhubarb forcing its way out of the pots in the basement, I rummaged through my computer hard drive for a suitable contribution to this week’s paper. Although both the Pearl and the Pontoon boat are now gone from my life and my garage, […]
Good news to share – Barb Redford has been chosen Senior Of The Year. This deserving recipient has turned her passion for growing flowers and vegetables into a charity known as “Marzie Days”. This was to bring attention for a rare disease also known as “Chromosome 18p Deletion, affecting her […]
Here we are nearing the middle of what it supposed to be a long month! I am still working on getting back on track…Maybe that just never happens for me. Since I am working from home, I am trying to divide my time between office and housework, both of which […]
Ah, the start of a fresh year. What better time is there to make a pact with oneself to start anew? In the position of a culinary instructor, I encounter many situations with people wanting to improve areas of the culinary arts within their home kitchens and lifestyles. If you […]
A hockey dad is waiting for his son to make his NHL debut — on Hockey Night in Canada with the Toronto Maple Leafs — and to see him interviewed between periods. The father lives in remote British Columbia, where the station carrying HNIC is showing a Vancouver Canucks’ game […]
My job as a bass tournament angler brings me all over North America and I get to meet a lot of people from the southern United States, where the majority of our events happen. I see many of my southern friends posting on social media when they see a snowflake […]
The table beet (also known as garden beet, blood turnip or red beet) is a popular garden vegetable. Beet tops are an excellent source of vitamin A and the roots are a good source of vitamin C. The tops can be cooked or served fresh as greens and the roots […]
Along with the New Year comes one of the longest standing traditions for ice anglers in Northwest Ontario, the start of a new lake trout season. I have spent New Year’s Day on the ice many times over the years but with the brutal cold temperatures we’ve had over the […]
2021 ended with both happy and sad happenings. Happy events were the arrival of a baby boy Wesley Donald, born December 6. Proud parents are a Rebecca Witherspoon and Cory Randle. Proud grandparents are Murray and Holly Witherspoon and Gordon and Sonja Randle. Great grandparents are Bill and Carol McLean […]
Happy New Year! 2022 – wow! Mother Nature showed us some true old-fashioned temperatures, but it may have been just what the Dr ordered to keep us all tucked away safely at home. New Years was never my thing unless it was a bonfire and snow machining. I liked to […]
