We all have our favourite stores—the grocery store, a special clothing store, a favourite bookstore. I especially like shopping at K-Mart. I buy videotapes and video players. Office supplies and kitchen supplies. Martha Stewart sheets and towels. Lubriderm and Healing Garden bath products. K-Mart combines quality with good prices, and […]
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By Harry Vandetti
Just Passing By
Just Passing By
Forty years later, it’s still vivid in some minds how the air was filled with flying rocks and everyone around was put in peril when the Rainy Lake, or Noden, Causeway was under construction. The blasting continued night and day for a long time. It started with Tip Croome, a […]
Reuben Villagracia
A Reuben With A View
A Reuben With A View
You know what’s one of my guilty pleasures? I love the tell-tale signs when someone’s 15 minutes of fame is drawing to a close. In the world of sports—where worth is determined, for the most part, by how much front page you’ve covered or if you’ve received an apt amount […]
Milt Guba
The Week In Emo
The Week In Emo
The Wheels to Meals program has challenged Emo council to a carpet bowling tournament next Thursday (May 16) at the Legion. Other upcoming activities include the final club carpet bowling tournament (May 23), and carpet bowling and cards (May 30). Wheels to Meals will hold its season windup, featuring carpet […]
You couldn’t grow up during World War II without grieving. How well I remember the evening paper with its growing news and horrors. The bombs that fell on homes and businesses. And later, even on churches. Oh, there was an occasional bright spot, like the story of a London baker […]
A wise man once said, “One who breaks even is richer for the experience of gambling than any potential treasure they may have won.” Words of a fool. You see, I’m not exactly pleased with my five-for-eight performance in picking first-round winners of the Stanley Cup playoffs. While I didn’t […]
By Harry Vandetti
Just Passing By
Just Passing By
“Oh listen to the jingle, the rumble and the roar,Of the mighty rushing engine as she streams along the shore.Hear the mighty rushing engine, the bell and whistle call,You’re running through the woodlands on the Wabash Cannonball!” And an estimated 50 or more new guitarists here attempt to pick out […]
Milt Guba
This Week In Emo
This Week In Emo
St. Patrick’s CWL held their tea, bake sale, and bazaar on Saturday at the parish hall, with a supportive crowd on hand for the come-and-go event. The kitchen included Laura Armstrong, Frances Grant, Jose Balcewich, Heather Oltsher, and Loraine Bullied, while the servers were Mary Curtis, Chantelle Bragg, and Cartier […]
“George Armstrong is the luckiest man I know,” J.A. Mathieu told me one day. “He gets a contract to build a highway and finds a gold mine!” The old logger could be accused of expressing some jealousy here, having just lost a lawsuit that left Armstrong as sole owner of […]
Reuben Villagracia
A Reuben With A View
A Reuben With A View
There are times on this job where I catch myself thinking how generally nice the atmosphere in this town can be. Now I know what you’re thinking right off the bat. No, I’m not on the payroll of the Town of Fort Frances to provide a public service announcement, nor […]
“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind,” wrote Samuel Ullman at the turn of the last century. At the time, Ullman was already past 70. Furthermore, his hearing loss had forced him to retire from his business. But his retirement afforded him an opportunity […]
Milt Guba
This Week In Emo
This Week In Emo
Longtime Emo merchant Gordon Meyers suffered a heart attack earlier this month and he had to have double bypass surgery in Winnipeg on Tuesday. Fortunately, the operation was successful and Gordon is now recovering. His son, Grant, and daughter, Dr. Kim Pearce, have been with Gordon throughout the ordeal. The […]
