Once again this week, I’ve been thinking about “things.” My things! My treasures and junk. My files and books. My handy kitchen appliances and backyard waterfall. My dresses for spring, and my pots and pans for cooking. It takes things to make life fun and easy. But at the same […]
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Well, easier said than done. Heaven knows we have a sufficiency of stupidity right here at home in Drizzle Creek District. It’s everywhere, easy to see. I find it easiest by just looking in the mirror. After 30 years, my wife, The Pearl of the Orient, is agreeing that action […]
I’ve always been a fan of Jed Clampett, otherwise known as Buddy Ebsen. Years ago when everyone was young, we used the television set only a few times a week for shows that had become our family specialties. And every weekday night as dinner was served, the first question was […]
I’m a traditionalist. Always have been, probably always will be. This isn’t to suggest I abhor change, preferring instead to wallow in the status quo. Rather, I just shy away from change for change’s sake–especially when it comes to things or institutions that have been around for a long time. […]
Most services that impact you and me day-by-day are delivered at the local government level.Provincial politicians used to decide on the programs and make the rules. Municipal governments dispensed them. But it’s all changing fast. Instead of playing delivery boy, municipal governments are now service managers. Councils shape services according […]
By Sam Anderson
Outdoors Pro-Mo
Outdoors Pro-Mo
You probably all have seen and heard of new products on the market that are supposed to help you catch fish. The latest of these products has been computer games. Famous bass organizations and hunt clubs have commercials on TV getting you to purchase their latest video, or should I […]
I know a little bit about centering a ball of clay. Or not centering it. As a young housewife, I took a night class in a western Canadian city and I still remember the feel of the clay in my hand. Making a pinch pot. Firing it. Glazing it. And […]
The Café in Hooterville was simply buzzing when I walked in the other morning. Puddin’ Pye was tipped back in the head chair at the debating table, his cup out for his third refill. “Well sir, let me tell you, did ya’ see it?” quizzed the Hooterville Sage in a […]
The White-fronted Goose is quite a common one in western Canada, all the prairies, and down the Pacific coast. In the fall, it is a common migrant through Manitoba, and some flocks appear on the lakes and in the grainfields of Northern Ontario from time to time. White-fronts are of […]
Each year in Canada, people are injured and others are killed by accidents that could have been prevented. In fact, some 90 percent of all accidents are predictable and, with proper education, largely preventable. Falling into an open manhole or sewer, being crushed by some heavy item, or injured because […]
Mike Behan
Moving with Mike
Moving with Mike
Last time on “As the Stomach Churns” . . . Fort Frances council, except for Mayor Glenn Witherspoon, who had declared a conflict of interest, emerged from a behind-closed-doors meeting to announce to any and all who cared that the town does not have, nor ever had, an exclusionary ice […]
Linda Wiens
Quetico Centre
Quetico Centre
Astute world watchers have said, “The future is unknown and unknowable.” Peter Drucker, a wise and practical teacher and writer, said, “You can’t really plan but the alternative is worse.” Though we may know a likelihood, we cannot accurately predict specific events. Witness earth quakes and volcanic eruptions. So what […]
