Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Fall is here, things are dry, and there is still work that can be done in the fields; both in getting crops off and applying organic fertilizer (i.e., manure) for next year’s crops. When spreading manure, you must keep in mind Best Management Practices. You may not be aware but […]
On Oct. 6, voters across the Kenora-Rainy River riding sent a clear message to the rest of the province: we want to be heard. I would like to thank everyone for the support and faith you have put in me. I am honoured to take our message to Queen’s Park […]
I was able to summarize our weather data and we ended up with 2,493 Corn Heat Units, which is a bit more than normal (2,350). Meanwhile, rainfall for May, June, July, August, and September was 280.4 mm (11.2 inches), well below the norm of 440.5mm (17.6 inches), so we really […]
Change is coming. I can feel it out there, somewhere, where decency and trust and safety exist, where honour is power and integrity our weapon, where the voice of the masses speaks for the disenfranchised, the broken, the injured, and the forgotten. At least I hope change is coming. Hope. […]
I walked into the living room and there he was—a perpetual giggling ball of somersaults recoiling back and forth across the length of the couch. The remaining three little peppers stood about in “jaw drop and stun” mode—clearly amazed as the little whippersnapper rotated in an orbit oblivious to the […]
This past week was a busy one in Canada and around the world, with many events having long-term implications both at home and abroad. Here is a recap of some of the events and my opinion on how this is likely to affect things moving forward. The first really big […]
For a month-and-a-half, I’ve been negligent in attending to my yard. I have used the excuses that Marnie and I were travelling, that the great weekends should be spent at the cabin, and, the best of all, it is getting dark too early. I suspect my neighbours have been wondering […]
No matter what the product, whether we’re talking about cars, stereos, computers, or hockey sticks, there’s always the best of the best. Usually these high-end products are the most technologically advanced—and the most expensive. In fishing, there are super high-end products in every category, whether you want to talk about […]
In most circumstances, a 3-4 season in high school football would be considered a disappointment. Heck, if this was the cut-throat world of Texas high school football, a coach more than likely would be fired following the first game of the season if his team was soundly blanked in their […]
I was standing in line at the bank the other day, clueless to the world around me. I was fidgeting with my wallet and the ever-growing stash of old receipts and slips of paper in the coin purse. Some of those little notes contained chicken scratch ideas for my column […]
In the newspaper business, we always have told our customers that colour sells. Adding just a single colour to an ad increased the potential that it would be read by an increase of 50 percent. Putting something into the full rainbow of colours, almost every reader of a newspaper would […]
Having reached the lofty heights of 39 percent of the popular vote in one election campaign, the Conservative Party of Stephen Harper now has set out to dismantle several of our national institutions. The latest, but certainly not last, institution to be attacked is the CBC. Conservative media outlets, Conservative […]
