(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 […]
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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, […]
MORRISSEAU–Born to Lonny Morrisseau and Roslyn Tuesday, of Fort Frances, Ontario, a girl, Lonaya Phyllis, weighing 8 lbs. 4 oz. on March 11, 2013 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
William Joseph “Billy” Ottertail (Nowatagabow), 74, of Lac La Croix First Nation, Ont., passed away at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. He was born Dec. 23, 1938 in Fort Frances to the late Frank Hosler and Lizzie Kingfisher. Billy lived all of […]
Kenneth Robert “Ken” Munn of Fort Frances, passed away peacefully on Monday, March 11, 2013 at the age of 88. Ken was born on July 24, 1924 in Hamiota, Manitoba to Purl and Anna Munn. As a young boy his family moved to what was known as the Munn Ranch […]
Carl Schubring, a former editor of the Fort Frances Times, jokingly told me the following story. When the community had a sole lawyer, the poor lawyer could barely put food on the table for his family. When a second lawyer appeared on the scene, together they comfortably could feed their […]
When asked, I rarely tell people my age. Not that I mind people knowing how many birthdays I’ve had, but it seems to me that my chronological age doesn’t say much about me as a person. My assessment is that my hair is the colour of a 70-year-old, I laugh […]
First of all, I think “Old Man Winter” should read the book, “The Language of Letting Go.” I think the crusty cold curmudgeon has some serious issues. Secondly, if he doesn’t let go soon, I will put on my “Gandalf” hat, slam my wooden scepter into an axe-handle deep snow […]
I love watching curling on television. Always have, so you can’t blame it on my age. My daughters groan when I tune in to curling and they roll their eyes as if I’ve just made the lamest confession of all time; as if I showed up at their workplace with […]
Stephen Harper’s Conservatives—the very people who claim they are the best political choice to put behind the wheel of Canada’s economy during difficult times—appear to be driving our economic bus over a fast-approaching cliff. The warning signs are becoming more numerous and more severe. The Canadian economy is reeling from […]
