Well, my prediction that the end of calving sometimes is a bit of challenge has proved true. A great big ole’ cow that is quiet like a dog and has been acting strange, truthfully, for the last couple of years, calved early Sunday morning. She has been lying out in […]
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“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” Buckminster Fuller said that. What a great name. Buckminster. He, if you don’t know or remember, was an American architect who created the geodesic dome design. He was a prolific writer, designer, inventor. In a […]
I attended an interesting meeting last Wednesday, during which one of the people on hand made a very appropriate comment. “The council of Fort Frances is not going to save the town,” he said. “The people of the community will save the town!” And when the words had settled at […]
As the baseball season gets underway on Sunday night with a contest between the Texas Rangers and the Houston Astros, all eyes will quickly turn towards the Toronto Blue Jays after a massive off-season overhaul. Following a wild couple of months that saw them acquire Josh Johnson, Mark Buehrle, Jose […]
Each week in my column I generally try to include tricks and tips for my readers to help them catch more fish, mostly focusing on the Sunset Country Region. This week I am going to talk about the basics when fishing away from home, as I just returned from a […]
Last week I wrote about the frustration many had expressed as a result of the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs’ decision to bypass Northwestern Ontario with its pre-budget consultations. As I stated in last week’s column, my party’s Finance Critic, Michael Prue, had pushed for consultations in the […]
Dear editor, Congratulations to the Rainy River Future Development Corporation for bringing the “Go Local Rewards” concept to Fort Frances. The Rainy River District Federation of Agriculture would like to see this concept extended where Rainy River District businesses provide products to their customers that are truly local. As reported […]
Dear editor: I am writing to inform everyone of the changes that have happened to Fort Frances Little League baseball in the last year. The area that our league covered has been consolidated with the International Falls Little League. The Canadian players now will sign up directly with International Falls. […]
(July 24, 1963-March 15, 2013) Peacefully, at her home in Port Perry, surrounded by her loving family, on Friday, March 15, 2013 at age 49, Lorraine Elizabeth Posthumus (nee Kaemingh), dearly loved wife of Terry Posthumus, passed away. She was the loving mother of Theodore and his wife, Laura, and […]
Florie (Flora) Mills fell asleep in death on Saturday, March 16, 2013 after a year-long struggle with congestive heart failure. She would have been 87 on April 21. In 1920, Florie’s parents, Ekaterina and Wilhelm Kliner, fled the Bolshevik revolution in Belarus and sailed to Canada aboard the White Star […]
Betty Marsh (Aug. 1932-Feb. 2013) passed away peacefully in Calgary after a lengthy illness. Betty is survived by her daughter, Heather Battle, son-in-law Trevor, and grandson Abel Battle, as well as many sisters and brothers-in-law and many much loved nieces, nephews and friends. “Because I have loved life, I shall […]
It is great that there is now a full council at the table in Fort Frances. We congratulate Doug Kitowski for stepping forward to fill the vacancy left with the death of Sharon Tibbs. Fort Frances’ council is now on unfamiliar grounds. They face a major decline in tax revenue, […]
