If you accept Canadian football history as starting 110 Grey Cups ago, as most reasonable sports fans do, there have been — conservatively speaking — between 4,000 and 5,000 players who have run back kicks of some variety. They’ve been speedy or shifty, almost all from the U.S., where there […]
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The number of bluebirds nesting this year has increased from the setbacks of the last three years. The migration of these birds was previously interrupted by freezing rain and late snowstorms. Tree swallows were not affected. Last year there were only five nesting bluebirds. This year, every trail (a line […]
When the schedule for our Bassmaster tournaments came out last year and I saw that I had two tournaments in Alabama in June, with a week off in between, I wasn’t all that excited. It is as hot as it gets down here this time of year and I love […]
Like the rest of Canada, I was cheering loudly for the Edmonton Oilers tonight! It is hard to be sad for the other team as coming from a hockey family we know the blood, sweat and tears that go into a hockey player. The Oilers were amazing and took us […]
Across the Rainy River district, plans are now well underway to create a huge celebration of Canada Day. Since 1867 Canadians have rallied around July 1 first as Dominion Day and now as Canada Day. It was not until 1982 that the Day was renamed to Canada Day when the […]
Tbaytel is adding a new cell tower in the Devlin area to improve the coverage between Fort Frances and Emo. Jennifer McKibbon of Dibaajimowin Fibre Optic attended the June 12 LaVallee Council Meeting. McKibbon informed Council it is anticipated that Fibre Optic will be coming to Devlin in the third […]
Hopefully you haven’t seen a very bright red beetle in your garden eating the leaves of the plants belonging of the lily family. The scarlet lily leaf beetle is an insect native to Europe and Asia and is believed to have come to North America in the soil of potted […]
As any sports fan knows, it’s hard to be on a bandwagon when there isn’t one. Such is the life for Chicago White Sox followers, one of whom writes this column. To say the Sox and I have a history is an understatement, and understating the White Sox is about […]
Life Coach’s Corner
By Liz Adam
By Liz Adam
The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight. Gretchen Rubin If you read last month’s column that asked “Maybe some spring cleaning?” and decided to say yes to doing some spring cleaning, you may […]
The sixth stop of the Bassmaster Elite Series took place this past weekend on the Tennessee River, at Wheeler Lake. Wheeler does not have the tournament history or big bass reputation that other Tennessee River lakes do like Guntersville, Pickwick, Chickamauga or Kentucky but it’s a similar body of water […]
Here we are halfway through the month of June, and I am not finished planting. We have a couple of alfalfa trials that are ready to go in but when they are predicting a heavy rain, I question if we shouldn’t wait until that is behind us. Small seed will […]
The council of Fort Frances earlier this year spoke of the high cost of replacing the community’s infrastructure in Fort Frances. The original sewer in front of the newspaper office was made of clay. Men digging with shovels originally dug a trench about ninety centimeters wide down to a depth […]
