Local News from Across the Rainy River District
First I knew Gordon (Bud) Dyrland as a “honeyman,” and there are those he has helped since then who might say he is still a “sweetheart” because of his good works with water pumps in times of crisis like this past week. I never before, to be honest, expected him […]
Right on this page you’ll find a complete preview of sporting events at this weekend’s Fun in the Sun festivities. Well, almost complete, that is. You see, there’s one event I was saving to preview until now. With all due respect to the perennially-popular bathtub races or the Aquanauts’ revival […]
Decades ago when we lived in Edmonton, Alta., a very little boy and his teddy bear in a stroller disappeared from the backyard. I quickly looked up and down the street, but he was nowhere in sight. I knew immediately where he had gone and I was panic-stricken. He was […]
The oldtimer who helloed me one day in Safeway could have been still in his 60s. He seemed alert and interesting and, for some reason I never learned, he also knew my name. Still slim and erect, he wanted to talk, so we did. Eventually, I found out his name […]
Due to the weatherman’s misbehaviour last week, the Emo hospital auxiliary’s annual “Strawberry Social” has been rescheduled for this coming Friday (June 21) from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at the hospital cafeteria. Admission is $2, and there will be a door prize draw. Also with the inclement weather conditions last week, two […]
With Fort High’s graduation ceremony set for tonight, the book on the 2001-02 Muskie season is officially closed. However, a handful of student athletes will continue to ply their trade at the college/university level next season. But before I start (cue “Pomp and Circumstance”), I’d just like to say while […]
One of my goals in life is to laugh every day. For that reason, I usually watch at least one old sitcom—Gilligan’s Island, I Love Lucy, The Beverly Hillbillies, Gomer Pyle, Green Acres, Get Smart, I Dream of Jeannie—the classics. This routine began in the 1980s when I first read […]
Do you get the feeling the Borderland Thunder really are hoping to make next season count? Signing local hockey mind Dave Allison as head coach for next season may be seen as something of a coup, considering the 12-year coach was in the American Hockey League—the second biggest pro hockey […]
This town’s most spectacular bank robbery (actually, there have been only two here and the first one was a rather drab affair in comparison) occurred 15 years ago—and I haven’t heard much about Jerry Sawicki since. Looking back now, I’d have to call Jerry a natural-born adventurer with a vivid […]
Last week, Friday was a busy day as I helped my daughter get ready for a garage sale with some of her friends. We cleaned my clothes closets, and got rid of unneeded candleholders, vases, suitcases, lawn chairs, a wok, some placemats, and two folding chairs I inherited from my […]
Rains evidently have returned as faithfully as of old and Rainy River valley has never again been threatened with becoming a Saskatchewan wasteland like we barely managed to avoid in my first year of haymaking, about 1960. I had just acquired a fully-cleared farm that in later years proved capable […]
Although I’ve covered four fishing derbies in person in my current 13-month stay here, I’m the last guy who will claim to know anything about the sport. Oh sure, it’s inevitable that I’ve picked up a few pointers, have gotten more comfortable with the jargon, and the general understanding of […]
