Well, here at home we had more than three inches of rain over the holiday weekend. I know it varied throughout the district but the only thing it seems to be good for at home is keeping the lawn growing! Truthfully, it was just starting to get nice again in […]
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What has happened to Stephen Harper’s commitment to build seven Arctic icebreakers back in 2007? Why, in 2015, are we still waiting for just one Polar-class icebreaker to be ready for work in 2021? The whole plan keeps being deferred as the need for more study in Ottawa continues to […]
I had a conversation with my neighbour the other day. Colton Banks. He lives next door. Colton is four. He is starting school so he has a lot of things on his mind. He used to be too shy to talk to me so instead he hovered, playing some sort […]
After the great weather we’ve had over the past week here in Sunset Country, it’s tough to even begin thinking about the upcoming hunting season. However, we all know that a change in the weather is coming soon and before long, some of us will be hanging up the fishing […]
The dictionary defines “dummy” as an unintelligent or naive person. In spite of that definition, I don’t mind being called “dummy” when my partner takes the bid at a bridge party. Otherwise, calling me a dummy would be a huge insult. But apparently, judging by their reading tastes, there are […]
Step right up and place your bets. A fitting opening to my almost annual column predicting the outcome of this year’s NFL season, which begins tomorrow night when the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots host the Pittsburgh Steelers. Billions upon billions of dollars are bet every year on professional […]
The 11th-annual International Falls Bass Championship took place this past weekend and it was the father-son team of Travis and Jace Peterson who bested the full 60-team field after two days of fishing on the Rainy River and the U.S. side of Rainy Lake. Since the second year of this […]
The last sunset of August hovers on the horizon as I write this. If you really want to know how fast time flies, watch the sun set. In the time it takes to realize how beautiful the purple-hued light is, reach for the camera, and turn back to the beauty, […]
Wow! Last day of August—where did our summer go? My students were finished at EARS on Friday and I find that such a sad time. I spend more time with my students that anyone else and I as much as I am happy for them to return to school and […]
We have grown older. Our children have married beautiful women who do not appreciate the rustic cabin life, and now we are creating an indoor washroom at the cottage. It probably has been long-imagined and began when my father purchased a Sun-Mar composting toilet in the early 1990s which he […]
From the Stewardship Youth Rangers
Our eighth and final week as Stewardship Youth Rangers in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry summer program was a whirlwind of activity! We spent another day with Brian Love of the Rainy River District Trappers Association in Mine Centre building 18 pine marten nesting boxes. We learned more […]
Have you tuned in to a relatively new program on CBC Radio One hosted by Lisa Charleyboy? It is called New Fire and it is an excellent program that is intended to bring you “to the surprising heart of the conversations important to Aboriginal youth.” Catch it on Tuesday morning […]
