The Muskies are ranked #2 in Manitoba heading into their second season in the Winnipeg High School Football League this fall after a 4-3 regular-season record and quarter-final exit during their inaugural campaign in the ‘AA’ division in 2001. Now the bad news. It costs considerably more to play in […]
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Milt Guba
This Week In Emo
This Week In Emo
Cathe Hoszowski of Atikokan, representing 807 Northwest Network, discussed broadband technology in this area code during an Emo council meeting earlier this month. Broadband service can come into communities via three different ways—satellite, fibre optics, and microwave. Some of the high-speed communication services being provided by broadband are tele-medicine and […]
Yesterday morning in water exercise, we chatted as we worked. Somehow, the topic of age came up, and I discovered to amazement that the young woman I was talking to was about to reach her 85th birthday. When I exclaimed in surprise, the person on my other side said she […]
In case you missed it, Health and Long-Term Care minister Tony Clement on Monday released a “comprehensive opinion survey” that detailed Ontarians’ priorities for the future direction of health care. And the results of this so-called “Dialogue on Health” initiative were, well, earth-shattering: Thousands of Ontarians want the government to […]
Yet another murder trial has come up and again the air is full of questions about the most famous one of all here—the so-called “hot stove murder case.” This has hung over our heads like a black cloud although the terrible offence actually was committed some 60 miles east of […]
Reuben Villagracia
A Reuben With A View
A Reuben With A View
“I have to do some soul-searching right now. I’m a very frustrated man.” So said Shannon Sharpe, tight end for the Baltimore Ravens, after his team dropped a 27-10 decision to the Pittsburgh Steelers in an AFC divisional final Sunday. That was pretty much my reaction after going 2-2 in […]
Milt Guba
This Week In Emo
This Week In Emo
Our former reeve, Maurice MacMillan, was released from the Emo Health Centre on Friday after being hospitalized there last week. Feeling much better, I’m sure Maurice will be showing up at the Wheels to Meals carpet bowling, which he enjoys to the fullest. Once again, students at Our Lady of […]
A picnic in the winter. Now that’s something to remember! Sensible people would have looked at the thermometer before planning a wiener roast last Sunday. But when it comes to picnics, we’ve never been sensible. It all began back in Edmonton, Alberta in the bitter winter of 1966. For two […]
Okay, class, hands up everyone who knows Premier Mike Harris has resigned and the Ontario Progressive Conservatives are in the midst of a leadership race to replace him? Not bad. All right, hands up everyone who can name the five candidates vying to succeed Mr. Harris—and become Ontario’s next premier […]
We were still chasing the Allan Cup in 1951 when I first met Colin Russell in Owen Sound. Now there’s a man right out of our local Atlantis lore! Our Canadians had, by now, broken hockey fans’ hearts all the way to the Pacific, but here we were in the […]
The congregation at the Christian Reformed Church in Emo welcomed Rev. Harold and Joanne DeJong as guest speaker for both the morning and evening worship services last Sunday (Jan. 13). The couple, hailing from Dispatch, Kan., also visited with Harold’s mother, Nellie DeJong, at the Golden Age Manor, as well […]
As most everyone knows by now, after last Saturday, Fort Frances will be forever known to Canadians as the only town in the country to have been founded by the Simpsons. It all started when CBC correspondent Allen Abel, wrapping up a brief live interview with Sambo Fedoruk, captain of […]
