Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Where are the bluebirds? Our expectations were that it would be another great year because of last year’s phenomenal success with an abundance of bluebirds nesting in our many bluebird houses. Usually by mid-May many are already nesting but sadly we saw only two nesting pairs thus far this year. […]
The Bassmaster Elite Series visited Lake Champlain in upstate New York this past week, one of the most popular fisheries in the United States amongst our field of anglers because of the excellent bass fishing for both smallmouth and largemouth bass. I had been excited for this event for months […]
Ted Turner is the only person besides Connie Mack to own and manage a major-league baseball team. His solitary game as a big-league manager (a loss) was seven days before I sat in his office — just the two of us — in 1977. A couple of months later he […]
I think we are tempted, at times, to measure the value of our life by our big moment experiences. We read about those who climb Mount Everest or run a marathon or swim the English Channel or … Maybe our life seems pale and watered down in comparison, as though […]
An old Irish saying “Children are the rainbow of life. Grandchildren are the pot of gold”. I really had not given a lot of thought to my granddaughter until she arrived with her parents last Friday. As our first grandchild, she was already special and held a special place in […]
First published July, 2007, but worth a repeat Since real men don’t shop, I was killing time while my wife, The Pearl of the Orient, selected a new bathing suit. There were several thousand in her size range. It promised to be a long process. As I wandered the housewares […]
Well we started to make some hay and decided to quit all within a few days. We are planning to cut a couple more fields that are decent, but the others are depressing and painful to bale so we are going to wait and just hope we get some growth. […]
The fire that’s been active in Northwest Bay is being held. Over four hundred hectors have been effected by this fire that started on June 23. Firefighters remain on the scene. Extreme dry conditions are definitely a concern for not only northwestern Ontario but much of Canada. We are reminded […]
Summer is a wonderful time of the year when it comes to the abundance of fresh fruit that is available, and cherries are one of my utmost favourite. I believe that we all have some fond memory from our childhood of eating cherries in the hot summer sun; either raw […]
Local anglers who enjoy competing in our numerous bass tournaments across the region are happy to hear that most of the long running events are back on the schedule after some took a year off last year due to the pandemic. They are fun for those of us who participate […]
Something that Gordie Howe “did” after he died made more of an impact on me than anything from his illustrious hockey career. Yes, you read that right. The story requires a little context. My grandson Gareth, who was born at La Verendrye Hospital, was a passionate young hockey player. His […]
Our country is in mourning. We are mourning for the past several weeks what indigenous people have been mourning for generations. Over and over indigenous people have told us their children were buried in unmarked graves at the sites of residential schools. These were not schools. They did not provide […]
