Good thing I don’t work on commission around here. If I was looking to get paid for every accurate prediction, I’d be in big trouble—or a lot skinnier since buying food might become a more difficult accomplishment. Here’s a look back at my NFL predictions for the just-completed regular season, […]
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Several years ago, the Ministry of Natural Resources developed zones across the province based on geographical location and similarities in characteristics of water, which they use to manage our fisheries. In Northwestern Ontario, there are three zones across the southern part of the region, stretching from the Manitoba border to […]
As always, we plan and prepare much longer than it takes our special day to come and go! Here’s hoping everyone enjoyed themselves and got a belly full—the problem seems to be that our bellies continually get full! I overdid it on Christmas Eve so I had to take it […]
Who are you? Can you answer this question without using a name title? You are not a daughter or son, woman or man, a wife, a husband, a mother, a father, a single parent, or a grandparent. You are not a supervisor, or a secretary, divorced, or a homemaker, a […]
2014 is on the horizon, only a few hours away. New Years is always the appropriate time to commit to make changes in one’s life. We like to make resolutions focusing on health issues. Our most common resolutions include losing weight, exercising more and complaining less. I have in the […]
As soon as Boxing Day has passed and I know for certain that Christmas has departed and taken my visiting daughters with it and I have managed to quit sobbing and have dried my eyes, then I have a tremendous urge for lists. These lists need not necessarily be of […]
The holidays and the end of another year finally are upon us, so this will be my final column of 2013 and the second part of the “year in review.” As summer came upon us in 2013, so did an incredible human tragedy. Early on the morning of July 6, […]
Many people spend hours cleaning prior to Christmas, including me. I wore out two toothbrushes and an entire bottle of “Mean Green” getting the grout in my tile all polished up. I lucked out with fewer walls to wash this year since I just finished getting fresh paint in more […]
I originally wrote this in 2007. It is worth a reprint. Some of our most vivid memories are of childhood events. We old codgers may not be able to remember what we had for breakfast, but can recall every detail of our first Christmas concert. At my first, I was […]
In this edition of the Fort Frances Times, we will publish the “Message of Glad Tidings” taken from the New Testament Book of Luke, Chapter 2 verses 8-11. Published for the 80th time with this Christmas edition, it is a tradition that was begun by my grandfather and his partner […]
What do you want for Christmas? We all have asked that question, and have been asked it. I always come up with a blank. Socks, underwear, fresh tea towels. I just shake my head—coming up with nothing much. I remember wanting a Wonderful Wendy doll, from the Eaton’s catalogue, when […]
When August and I got married back in September, we felt like we wanted to wait until winter set in to take our honeymoon. We wanted to go somewhere warm, and get a little break from the deep freeze we get for four months, rather than travel during the short […]
