I enjoy listening while our veteran citizens such as Otto Dallman, 88, and Enrico Perin, 89, share the bench just back of the Safeway cash registers. Other customers stream past, perhaps wondering whether they can still afford to ride home somehow on their own or maybe hitch a ride because […]
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Reuben Villagracia
A Reuben With A View
A Reuben With A View
Former Times editor Harry Vandetti used the words “shouts out” in his “Just Passing By” column last week. Now, it’s not confirmed whether he picked it up from my using of the term to introduce my sports newsbits. But I’m pretty sure he did. Either way, it made my week […]
Reuben Villagracia
A Reuben With A View
A Reuben With A View
Let’s face it, sports and movies usually don’t mix very well together. There are more bad sports movies than there are good ones. For every “Raging Bull,” there are five “Mighty Ducks” sequels. For every Oscar nomination a sports movie gets, there are 12 “Razzies” (annual award recognizing the worst […]
Our ’50s and ’60s were well populated by UFOs! (most called them flying saucers and scoffers said “sun spots!”) Unidentified flying objects, as they became officially and seriously known, were being sighted everywhere, and our border skies must have been among their favourites haunts because almost every lake dweller here […]
I recently visited the Warroad Pioneer newspaper office and met up with one of Cal Marvin’s sons, who was picking up the new Warroad senior hockey photo. The Warroad Lakers hockey team still exists but with a different name—the Islanders. And they’re on the trail for another Allan Cup title. […]
Spring cleaning is long gone from our house, but I still remember the smell of a “clean” house as a girl. Oh how we cleaned every nook and cranny. We scrubbed the closet shelves of “spare bedrooms” that were never used. We hung the parlor rug on the clothesline and […]
As a former volunteer firefighter and emergency responder for more than 15 years, I have responded to many different and challenging emergencies. Over the years, I have been exposed to—and encountered—many dangerous situations at fires, motor vehicle accidents, and medical calls. A few years ago, I arrived on scene at […]
Whoever decreed “let there be mirth and merriment” must have meant to include music, especially the brass big band music like Fort Frances knew in every celebration on both sides of the border until about 20 years ago. Through war and peace, this band brought us the theme songs of […]
Milt Guba
This Week In Emo
This Week In Emo
With the hockey season shortly coming to an end, there is one more tournament, called “Tony’s” and Tony Bliss invites liniment and recreational teams to participate in his arena fundraiser, tourney and dance this Friday and Saturday. The dance goes from 8 p.m. until 1 a.m., with music by Yowza. […]
Reuben Villagracia
A Reuben With A View
A Reuben With A View
As I read the headlines regarding Mark Messier’s sub-par season, I can’t help but remember an old bit from a stand-up comedian. You know, one of those clever “observational humour” types a la Jerry Seinfeld. He said there comes a time in life when you’ve become a little too old […]
Many of us here feel badly about current events in Israel and the continued murder of Jewish people. Our sympathies stem from the friendships experienced in this town with some fine Jewish merchants who certainly were among the founders of our New Atlantis! Now they have all moved away and […]
You gotta love “Plan B.” For all you uninitiated out there, “Plan B” is a curling term used to describe when something good happens from a shot that wasn’t called. For instance, when the skip wants a draw and his third delivers a triple take-out, or angle raise. Or when […]
