Local News from Across the Rainy River District
In this “Week of Remembrance,” we, as Canadians, are finding ourselves being increasingly offended by our next-door neighbours who seem to have forgotten quite a lot. While we honour our thousands who fell in two great wars, it seems the Americans—late to enter those wars on our side, remember—are coming […]
A survey, which was available to the public to fill out during Library Week at the Emo Public Library last month, found that 98 percent approved expansion needs. An open house, with free draws, balloons, and cookies/coffee, also was held in conjunction with Library Week. Prize winners included Bernice Campbell, […]
It’s been 16 years since we’ve seen The Greatest Show on Earth. That was the year my mother died, and she was our motivation. Oh, but she loved the circus! She tried to look at all three rings at once. She shuddered when the high-divers exchanged places and the tightrope […]
This is a tale of one Friday evening and two different events, which gave me a sense of how thoughtful this community can be. Unfortunately, the night didn’t start out that way. It began with me getting so charged up over getting enough photos and stories in this week to […]
Maybe I am a small ‘c’ conservative when it comes to my tastes in Major League Baseball. In fact, I’ll say it in black-and-white: I hope the New York Yankees come back to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks in the World Series. I’d like to begin by saying I’m not a […]
Poor Jack never stood a chance. In fact, Gen. Custer faced better odds at the Little Big Horn. Jack Tynan, as some of you may know, is leaving Fort Frances for a reporting job in Missouri and, as is tradition here at the Times, there was a going away party […]
As Canada sends our soldiers to war again, I’d recommend that they should be given opportunity to meet Albert Carrier, a great Fort Frances fighter. Coffeeing with Albert here a week ago, I gained fresh respect for him as a survivor as well as a very unique personality. Know anyone […]
Anyone wanting advance tickets to the Borderland Thunder games in Fort Frances, you can now get them at Variety Village here in Emo. It is better than standing in line at the Memorial Sports Centre. What would you do if you received a car for your birthday? Well, without mentioning […]
I love to walk barefoot in the summertime and feel the grass tickle my toes. And I love to walk barefoot in the winter and feel the softness and the warmth of the rug on the bottoms of my feet. I love to let my dishes go without washing while […]
Not many people will admit to this nowadays but I’m a die-hard, true-blue Montreal Expos fanatic—and have been for as long as I can remember. It was one day shy of my sixth birthday when the Expos played their first game on April 8, 1969. And while I don’t remember […]
We are saddened again by the passing of a pair of our hardest-working citizens in Bill Bailley and Carl Domanski, whom you might identify merely as a couple of our best-known hotelkeepers. Reflect on that remark a moment and much, much more can certainly come to mind regarding the way […]
Every now and then, I delve into my files and pull out something I call the “other notes.” These are things I ask my sources that don’t necessarily pertain to the subject at hand, but still ask in hopes of stumbling upon another angle—or perhaps another story entirely. I never […]
