It was my life ambition to be a mermaid. I know what you’re going to ask: how did that turn out? Not well, I must confess. I am not the greatest swimmer and my hair is not long enough to do the mermaid thing properly. Oh, and my voice doesn’t […]
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Birth date verification, or age verification of beef cattle–what is it? Age verification is the association of animal birth date data with an Animal Identification Number (single tag or tag group). There is an ever-increasing demand for accurate age determination in Canadian cattle. As such, there is a system in […]
The cold weather that’s been around for the past few days, uncomfortable as it is, has done wonders to fix the ice conditions on lakes across Sunset Country. After a mild December, most of the lakes across the region had very poor ice conditions heading into the new year. Heavy […]
As we all expected, the cold weather finally has found us—though it sounds like we still are better off than many other places, with heavy wind gusts hitting much of southern Ontario again. Northern Ontario did make the news with the failure of the bridge over the Nipigon River. I […]
I finished my gift shopping two days before Christmas and on the evening of Dec. 23, I wrapped presents like the dickens. At 9 a.m. on Christmas Eve, I started my holiday baking. But despite my best efforts, only my world-famous butter tarts and homemade chocolate truffles rolled off the […]
Most times I can sit down at my computer and have no problem writing you a story about life here north of Emo or the current events of the Emo Agricultural Research Station. But I’m still struggling with what I should be doing, saying, or writing. With the sudden loss […]
The holidays are something I look forward to every year for a number of reasons. We get to spend some time with friends and family that we might not get to see a lot of throughout the rest of the year, we generally eat pretty good, and most folks take […]
My mother, who likes to read, was reminiscing Saturday evening about coming to Fort Frances to attend high school. Up until then, her family had lived in Hudson, Ont., where her father was the stationmaster. The library in that community back in the early 1940s was a small bookshelf, and […]
As a result of higher cattle prices, the Beef Farmers of Ontario membership expressed concerns about the compensation fund of the Beef Cattle Financial Protection Program and its ability to protect farmers in a default payment situation. The purpose of the program, established in 1984, is to reduce the risk […]
I admire Willie Nelson. I have loved him from a distance since I was a teenager. I don’t know Willie Nelson; he doesn’t call me at home (an expression my daughters will get). But I love him for the parts of him I have imagined. He shares my birthday so […]
Obviously, everyone has goals. Things they want to accomplish in their lifetime and things they want to accomplish today or next week. But as we live, sometimes our goals become more refined—or even change completely. Take me, for instance. I had my whole life planned at age four. I was […]
I debated heavily on writing a “Moos” this week, but then remembered how much Nanny waited for Thursday as it was delivery day of “The Big Paper!” It wasn’t that she longed to read the “Moos” but the “big paper” was her source of current local news and events that […]
