Local News from Across the Rainy River District
This Monday (Feb 15) is Family Day, which is a holiday for many people. Although Covid restrictions are in place here’s hoping you get to enjoy the day off and spend time with people in your bubble. Hopefully next year’s Family Day will be better. A thank you goes out […]
Over the weekend I read an interesting opinion piece by Patrick Smith in the New York Times. He is a singer, songwriter and has worked in the oil fields of North Dakota. His opinion piece forced me to rethink my view of pipelines and the rush to clean energy. I […]
Did we not all say, “we are going to pay for this nice weather!” And we are. It was -40 checking cows all night and that was without the wind. Every year it seems the weather is shifting. To me, this should be January weather. Looks like we are into […]
After the shortest offseason that I’ve experienced in my tournament fishing career, the 2021 Bassmaster Elite Series season starts this week at the St. John’s River in Florida. The 2020 season wrapped up in early November in Texas so it was a quick turnaround to get ready for the new […]
I overheard a piece of a conversation the other day with one person asking another for their favourite food or favourite movie, I can’t remember which. I wasn’t really listening, but the word favourite caught my attention and it got me thinking. Many conversation starters when getting to know someone […]
Hurray! It’s Groundhog Day! But what does that mean? Supposedly if the Groundhog sees his shadow, we get six more weeks of winter. If not, only two more weeks. Either way, here in the north we are winners. Only two weeks? Unbelievable! Only six more weeks? What a stroke of […]
Every year the Township of LaVallee nominates a local individual as “Senior of the Year.” The Township is asking its residents to nominate someone they think should receive this award. The Senior of the Year has to be a resident of our Township, be 65 or older and someone who […]
Hindsight is a great marker for examining the roads we take. Looking back, I had a chance to buy “Apple” stock at less than $8.00. Through many splits, the stock was trading at $134 on Tuesday. I didn’t buy. Similarly, it is important to look back when we examine decisions […]
Well last week turned out to be a bit challenging. Woke up on Wednesday to a water issue. I was thinking it was likely a “frozen” issue because we had moved into the deep freeze. It was a bit more than that. I left my boyfriend/partner in charge and I […]
Most of the time when I go ice fishing I travel via snowmobile and I pull a portable shelter built onto a sled. I can put all of the gear that I need for a day on the ice inside the sled, cover it up and I’m good to go. […]
I suffer from the affliction of chronic earliness. As afflictions go, I suppose it isn’t worthy of stewing about, as compared to the insatiable need to rob banks or chew my fingernails, afflictions of that nature. I never arrive late, and I wrestle with anxiety if being late appears as […]
Dennis the Menace has some unbelievable tales of salmon fishing on the Great Lakes. Unbelievable until you remember that Dennis is the one who a couple of years back managed to shatter most of his wife’s crystal, crack the kitchen drywall, and blow the microwave into a thousand pieces while […]
