I have been thinking back over this past weekend about the many retail changes in Fort Frances and across the district. LaVallee, Devlin, Barwick Stratton, Pinewood, Bergland all had small general stores that carried everything from nuts to groceries servicing the immediate community. When I began composing ads back in […]
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I bounced into the Post Office in Rainy the other day all suitably masked and joined the queue to pick up my parcel from Zoned.com. One thing this Covid19 pandemic has done is given Canada Post a real business booming boost. I waited patiently trying to figure out who all […]
By Robin McCormick
Devlin Correspondent
Devlin Correspondent
The Senior Of The Year nominations are drawing to a near. Every year the Township of LaVallee nominations a local individual as Senior of the Year. The township is asking the residents of the Township to nominate someone they think deserves this award. The Senior of the Year has to […]
This weather reminds me more of April than March. It is certainly good weather for those who are just starting to get calves. The little drizzle that we received last night has softened things up, but it didn’t leave a bunch of puddles. The barn yard is sticky, but it […]
I realized the other day that hope seemed in short supply in my cupboard of reserves. I was checking my inventory and recording the levels of patience, tolerance, kindness, empathy, and I noticed that hope was all but depleted. That’s never a good thing, but … it got me thinking. […]
Tournament fishing is an emotional activity in that the highs can be so high and the lows can be so low. Before I go any further, I know, it’s only fishing, there are certainly more important issues in life but hear me out. After winning the last event a couple […]
Ontario residents will be waiting in line over their computers for the next several months. And area residents will probably be waiting in line even longer. On Monday just before nine in the morning I went online to discover how long people over 80 would wait to register for an […]
“Hey Rick, what’s that on the back of your truck?” was the first question I asked our retired Mountie-wanna-be as I pulled up to the Debating Table at the Bakery in Rainy River. Rick is a re-known collector of treasures i.e. JUNK and has a 48ft van, and several sheds, […]
I’ve been digging through my boxes of memories these past few weeks, of things I saved that at one time seemed incredibly important and valuable to me. I have an autograph book that friends wrote in at the end of each school year. I have track and field ribbons from […]
Well today I am officially back to work every day. I am challenged with our new name – I would like to say EARS, but we are now OCRC – Emo. That isn’t nearly as catchy or easy. I would have liked to have had a better sleep but that […]
The weather over the past couple of weeks across Northwest Ontario could be considered beautiful on most accounts. Warmer than normal temperatures, no snow, plenty of sun and not too many windy days. It has certainly brought about the feeling that winter is coming to an end, a feeling that […]
This weekend we will move our clocks forward to daylight savings. It was a year ago that we realized that the pandemic was upon us. A year ago, this coming weekend, Marnie and I were on our way to visit our granddaughter in Calgary. We had originally thought of flying, […]
