I have a new favourite book. I stumbled upon it while visiting Linden. I encouraged him, on to my knee, to help me read this fine story with the beautiful illustrations. We shared the message of this book over and over, and I will never tire of the thoughts that […]
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We ended up with 1,246 animals at the Stratton sales barn on Saturday, with the value in sales being $1,350,931.77. Unfortunately, prices have dropped and all indications are they will be staying this way for a long time. People selling their own yearlings or fall calves did OK, but the […]
By Gary Sliworsky Ag and rural rep What are you going to plant this spring for your pasture program? The first thing to plant is fence posts. By far the biggest gains in pasture management come from a rotational grazing system, with at least 10 paddocks and preferably more. Electric […]
My great-niece, Ella, and my great-nephew, Nicholas, both are in the fourth grade. And recently, they had a very interesting assignment. They were instructed to choose a real-life problem and then make a list of 20 possible solutions. Next, they were to choose the best solution and create it. What […]
I’m sitting here at my writing desk looking for inspiration in the tiny ball chocolates wrapped in tinfoil that were left over from the annual Easter egg hunt held here almost a month ago. Perhaps I should clarify and ’fess up. The chocolates weren’t exactly “leftovers.” I stashed a few […]
You certainly could see the grass greening up as the temperature reached double digits on Saturday! I was excited about seeing the lawn–and then thought, oh yeah, that’s the next thing: cutting grass! I still have a few large rocks to move before that first time on the lawn mower. […]
The third stop of the 2016 Walmart FLW Tour took place over the weekend at Beaver Lake, Ark. and everything went pretty good in my boat en route to an 11th-place finish. In what has been, far and away, my best season in four years of fishing this competitive bass-fishing […]
This is a busy weekend coming up and the district should be moving with so many events to take in. There will be lots of reasons to travel up and down the highway on Friday and Saturday. The final touches for the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s annual Business & […]
Don Rusnak
Member of Parliament
Thunder Bay-Rainy River
Member of Parliament
Thunder Bay-Rainy River
It has been a very busy couple of weeks for me, both in the riding and on Parliament Hill. On Thursday, April 7, I held an open house to celebrate the grand-opening of my Fort Frances constituency office. I appreciate everyone’s patience as we searched to find the right space […]
My heart has been busy with a bit of longing lately and I’m wondering from where that comes. If I could describe the ache, I would have to say I am homesick, but I’m here in my home so how is that possible? Some years ago, I came upon the […]
More than 50 years ago, U.S. President John F. Kennedy said, “Change is the law of life.” How right he was . . . and still is! In the early 1960s, when Kennedy was president, what amazing changes already had happened in my young life. Growing up in an eastern […]
You never really know how much poop a dog puts out until the snow melts. And when it comes time to clean up, not even my vigorous, dive-into-anything grandchildren want to make that extra five bucks cleaning up dog poop. It seems they’d rather have a week’s worth of extra […]
