Local News from Across the Rainy River District
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Allan Cup memories of 1952 are still very strong for many of our fans like Les Helliar of Nestor Falls, who calls me the “editor of nostalgia” and sends in the following notes—along with his disbelief that 50 years have gone by so quickly! He writes: Those of us lucky […]
Although the 109th edition of the Stanley Cup playoffs begins tonight, my personal “Cup Craze” ended just as quickly as it began five days earlier. That’s when the Edmonton Oilers dropped a 2-0 decision to the Calgary Flames—eliminating them from the playoffs for the first time in six years. While […]
It’s around 80 years now since that celebrated Chicago businessman, Al Capone, allegedly was enhancing the fortunes of Nestor Falls. Others were pre-occupied with U.S. prohibition activities in and around Fort Frances—purely as good neighbours while promoting prosperity north of the border in the bargain. Incredibly good times had found […]
