For the first 16 years of my life, I lived happily in a 100-year-old, eight-bedroom house on Route 12 in northern New York. A house that lived its first century as a tavern, when taverns were inns that served 19th-century travellers. As a child, I never once questioned why we […]
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Shock and awe—that’s the only way I can describe it. The snow that greeted me the other morning gave me a niggling feeling we had waited too long to head south. But I had to make the best of it, so I dug out of the garage the musty old […]
On Sept. 18, the premier announced the creation of a Transit Investment Strategy Advisory Panel. According to the Ontario government’s news release, the purpose of the panel is to recommend “ways to fund public transit across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA)” by meeting “with stakeholders and residents in […]
What do we know about ourselves? Even before we are born, medical records are being created about our well-being. Our earliest pictures are ultrasounds, which excited moms and dads post on Facebook. From scrapes and fractures to colds, sniffles, and tonsils, everything goes into our files. As adults, pregnancies, weight, […]
I’ve been away from the page. I’d love to say it was because I was in the places of my heart, like the Grand Canyon or the magnificent mountain territory of Wyoming, or on a long highway under the wild Montana skies. Nope. Those away destinations remain in my shoebox […]
I don’t suppose many of us can recall the day we took our first steps, the letting go of the coffee table, with our arms raised for balance, our legs slightly stiff, undoubtedly a look of surprise on our face and a feeling of being almost superhuman. It must have […]
NBA Hall-of-Famer Charles Barkley had an abundance of disdain for the concept of athletes being role models. The former great with the Philadelphia 76ers and Phoenix Suns even authored the script and did the voice-over for a Nike commercial in the mid-1990s which said as much. But, as I learned […]
Dear editor: On behalf of the La Verendrye Hospital Auxiliary, I would like to thank everyone for the overwhelming response to our fall tea on Saturday. Without the willingness of the membership to volunteer many hours, it would not be possible. A special thanks to the local businesses and the […]
Dear editor: I am happy to announce our 30th anniversary celebrations of the Sister Kennedy Centre were a complete success. We had more people participate in these events than we ever dreamed of—having seniors come in from Rainy River, Manitou Rapids, Emo, Devlin, Couchiching, Atikokan, and International Falls, Mn., as […]
It is with great sorrow that the family of Gerald Wallace Allan, 52, announces his passing on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013 in Trinidad. Gerald, the only son of Wallace and Gladys Allan, was born Nov. 28, 1960 in Emo, Ont. He graduated from Fort Frances High School and then Confederation […]
Aimee Rochelle Adams, 33, of Couchiching First Nation, passed away suddenly on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances with her loved ones by her side. She was born Sept. 4, 1980 to Calvin and Peggy Adams. She lived in the Fort Frances area all […]
Kenneth Elmer Carlson, 78, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances. He was born Dec. 28, 1934 in Tovell Township, Ont. and had lived all of his life in Rainy River District. In 1951, Kenneth began work at the […]
