Local News from Across the Rainy River District
This incident that I’ll call “The Kayak Kid” is actually a horror story–as you will agree having seen the Ranier rapids in full boil this summer. Now kayaks are said to be catching on again. You’ve known that our new-found Atlantis has held perils for us right along, and the […]
On the occasion of Katharine Graham’s passing last week, I was motivated to once again watch “All the President’s Men.” It had been years since we had seen this adaptation of the book by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. It’s a gripping story as the two reporters […]
Last summer, some friends of mine returned from the Folk Festival in Winnipeg. They informed me of a tragedy they came upon. A child, who was just pulled from the water, was being work on by rescuers. The child never made it! Recently, they returned from the 2001 Folk Festival […]
Tennis is not my game. I played it only a little in my late teens and very poorly at that. Tennis is my husband’s game. He was a finalist during his senior year of college and is a fanatic when it comes to watching his favourite sport. Nothing stands is […]
A spectre from the past may be pushing into our idyllic Atlantis scene in Point Park. Apparently, the annual celebration of a week ago was simply too exciting to be confined. It has somehow generated a wave of nostalgia as powerful as anything our ancient ancestors knew, something we might […]
Quick access to information is the best way to ensure Canadians are kept informed of where the federal government is focusing its attention and on how best to access the many services it has available. In today’s world, the daily pressures that some of us face can make it quite […]
There was a collective gasp of disbelief across Ontario when Premier Mike Harris insisted at the Walkerton inquiry that he was right to risk the lives of Ontarians by slashing environmental protection in the name of tax cuts for the wealthy. And another gasp when he insisted he was right […]
I’ve never met Tobi Brenneman Goldfus but still I feel that I know her. She’s the daughter of my college roommate, Helen Good Brenneman. Helen was a spectacular roommate. She was upbeat, bubbly, and vivacious, always smiling, and polite to a fault. Arriving at college before I did, she left […]
As George Armstrong slipped into eternity here last week, it could be imagined, as suggested in this space, that Atlantis truly was being reborn. Such a celebration as never before seen at this end of the Causeway that George created occurred all week. It was as if it had awaited […]
Albert and Carolyn (nee Kaemingh) Strydhorst and their children, Jessica, Andrea, and Kristin, who are missionaries to Nigeria, have been in the community for the past two weeks as guests of her parents, Henry and Thea Kaemingh. They will be leaving shortly for British Columbia. During coffee hour at the […]
Did you know consumers are fuelling a 20 percent annual growth rate in pharmaceuticals in North America? If you have stocks, you may have benefited from that. But natural products have been edged out of the media spotlight, and languish on the shelves. After a decade of double-digit growth, vitamin, […]
When I chose to retire several years ago, I ended a 25-year career in the same institution, but I was not given the traditional gold watch. What I was given, instead, was all the time in the world and very little money. In the beginning, I never meant to retire. […]
