Many decades ago, the Town of Fort Frances acquired property adjoining Riverview Cemetery, from a citizen named Roscoe Richardson. Mr. Richardson had planned a tree plantation on that property and took great pride in having every tree and shrub species found in the district planted there. It was an impressive […]
Columnists
This Covid lockdown has me missing by toast and coffee sessions at the Bakery… and missing the Pearl of the Orient too… that goes without saying. Properly applying condiments to toast is something the Pearl simply did not understand. “For goodness sakes, Elliott! You’ve got nearly half of that jar […]
I hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend as much as I did! 3 days at home in decent weather is quite amazing. I did have to spend most of one day catching up on the grass. It was long and thick you would have thought I hadn’t cut it yet […]
I miss my daughters. I may have mentioned that once or several hundred times over the past fifteen months or so. The pandemic certainly has stripped away the clutter and allowed us to see the pieces of our life that matter the most. My daughter shared such a story this […]
Although there’s not a lot of news this week, there’s definitely happy times in our community. Congratulations to Madison Allan and Brody McPherson who were wed at a small service Saturday, May 22. Proud parents are Dayle and Vince Allan and Bobbi Smith and Mark and Lisa McPherson. Grandparents Helen […]
Bulbs or bulb-like plants are usually considered perennial plants which have a period of growth and flowering, followed by a period of dormancy where they die back to ground level at the end of each growing season. The end of the growing season for spring flowering bulbs occurs in the […]
Coming into the seventh stop of the Bassmaster Elite Series season last week at Lake Guntersville, Alabama I was feeling pretty good. After a pair of tough events in March and early April, I followed those with two solid finishes and was above the cut line for the Bassmaster Classic. […]
Bob Dunn
Distant Replay
Distant Replay
This Olympic year, delayed 12 months by the pandemic, seems like an appropriate time to share one sports writer’s “medal-winning performances” from Games past. It began when I took my vacation for a no-expenses-paid trip to Mexico City for the 1968 Olympics. As the Winnipeg Tribune’s swimming writer (once, there […]
I like words. I had a notebook with my list of favourite words while I was growing up, words like giggle and balloon and bubbles, watermelon and frolic and zephyr. In that book were lists of words I struggled to spell correctly, words like prerogative and onomatopoeia. I still struggle […]
Our household watches the daily number of new Covid cases across each of the western provinces and the rest of Canada. We monitor the number of doses of vaccines arriving in Canada and are excited to see that by the end of June there will be a total of 38 […]
We country boys never really thought about it. Out on the farm whenever the urge hit you you’d just whip ‘er out and let ‘er rip. Never give it a second thought. But then going to town required some new training. Walking down the street in Rainy River with my […]
This weather… I hope everyone has been able to get out and enjoy it! Mother Nature might be mixed up, as she normally gives dirty weather for Walleye opener, but this weekend was great. I am hearing next weekend for our May long weekend; it will be a different story. […]
