Bob Dunn
Distant Replay

Mr. Nice Guy is never perfect, which prompts me to tell you about Wayne Gretzky, who never claimed to be perfect and who is such a national treasure that it’s considered blasphemous to be critical, especially a national treasure who shared Canada’s late “hockey dad” with the whole country. Before […]

Clematis wilt is a major disease of clematis and one that is feared by most clematis growers. But before you panic, you need to determine if your plant definitely suffering from clematis wilt? Most people think they have this disease in their garden when actually they don’t. A clematis can […]

My two sons work from home. Prior to the pandemic, they would commute to their offices and work from there. Both have saved thousands in commuting costs and business clothing. In Canadian cities and towns across Canada many are now working from home attending to the lockdown orders from provincial […]

This deserves an annual reprise. The yellow darlings popped out along every south facing wall in town a couple weeks back. I always picked a bouquet of the first ones for my late wife Norma, the Pearl of the Orient. It is a fond memory. So, it’s that time of […]

I am a curling fan. Always have been. The only thing I watch on television is curling and the rest of the year the television sits idle, and I occasionally wipe the dust off it. I used to watch tennis, and if I am being honest, I do sneak a […]

Robin McCormick
Devlin Correspondent

The 2020 Senior Of The Year is Arlene Rea. Every year our municipality asks for residents to put in their choice of a senior they feel contributes to rural area. Before Covid, Arlene served lunches at the Emo Hospital Cafeteria for people that live in the Golden Age Manor apartments, […]

The Bassmaster Elite Series season was back on this past weekend in Alabama at Neely Henry Lake, an impoundment on the Coosa River. This body of water was a new adventure for me and one that I had never seen before last week. Strong storms with heavy rainfall last week […]

Bob Dunn
Distant Replay

The Golden Age of Cerebral Coaching in Montreal lasted 947 days and, like many golden ages, it became a snapshot easily forgotten. It was unrecognized then and perhaps preserved only in the memory of a sports writer who knew all three. Gene Mauch. Scotty Bowman. Marv Levy. From January 25, […]

We pass by it all the time in the produce section, but when not being used as a garnish or a minor ingredient, what else can we do with parsley?Parsley is botanically called petroselinum crispum. This is derived from the Greek word petros, meaning stone, as it was often found […]