The 48th edition of “Spring Fever Days” will unfold in Emo this Thursday to Saturday (April 16-18). Back in 1968, the businesses had their own door prizes. Later, with the assistance of a former resident, the Emo merchants had a draw for accommodations, tickets, and spending money to the Calgary […]
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If it wasn’t for lists, I would never get anything done around here. Although I freely admit that sometimes just having a list makes me feel I’ve accomplished something—and sometimes that means nothing on the list really gets done at all. I just look it over, and cross stuff off […]
Time marches on. We get more and more familiar with this statement as we age, and on some days time marches with heavy boots right across our chest. Landmarks are something that keep us connected to the past—and perhaps those of us who have wandered away need those landmarks even […]
Last week proved that Finance minister Joe Oliver is living in an alternate universe when it comes to fiscal management and taxation. For as long as Joe Oliver has been an MP, he has been a die-hard partisan who has never let facts get in the way of his crazy […]
We built our house in 1970. My husband designed the structure and it fits our lifestyle perfectly. Thus we have enjoyed living here all these years. However, even though we haven’t moved in more than 40 years, I still remember how traumatic it was to move a household. We had […]
I’m hoping you all enjoyed a great Easter weekend—and that the Easter Bunny found his way to your house! Our own Easter Bunny (“Brownee”) made his way to the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market in Fort Frances on Saturday for a picture-taking session with MA Photography and a bunch of cute […]
If I played hockey for the Ottawa Senators, I would put in a bid to have the name changed, or at the very least request a trade, in light of the recent scrutiny by the Auditor General into the expenses claimed by those privileged few who sit in the Senate. […]
Someone paid me a heart-warming compliment recently, revealing to me that I enriched life during time spent together. I’ve learned to say thanks for sincere moments of offering like that. There was a time when I would have reduced the accolade with “Oh, don’t be silly” or “I don’t know […]
Marie Antoinette, prior to the French Revolution, may have chided the crowd by saying “Let them eat cake” when told her French subjects had no bread. She became the most hated symbol of the French aristocracy. The end for Marie Antoinette was that she lost her head. I couldn’t help […]
Last week was another busy one in Ottawa with an update into the Senate scandal audits, a new budget date and the first spending announcement from it, and the tabling of a second motion of mine on the pension file. The big news come via an update from the Auditor […]
As the ice lingers on lakes across Sunset Country after a cold snap over the past couple of weeks, there is not much else an angler can do except just keep ice-fishing. Earlier this week, my friend, Sean McAughey, and I got out to chase burbot—a fish species that’s widely […]
It was a cold and blustery day but the breakfast picnic had been planned earlier so we went ahead anyway. By the shore of a local lake, three young families fried their bacon and eggs on two Coleman stoves. In order to keep the flame alive and everyone warm, we […]
