Marg Rousseau Dear editor: The Meals on Wheels committee of Fort Frances would like to acknowledge Gaby Hanzuk for receiving the Tony Beyak Memorial Volunteer of the Year Award at the Chamber of Commerce business awards dinner on Thursday evening. Gaby is very well-known in our community as a dedicated […]
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Last week I gave an overview of the Drummond Report. This week, I would like to take the opportunity to look more closely at a few of his recommendations. While there are some recommendations that many consider to be bad, such as scrapping full-day kindergarten, limiting spending growth in health […]
Watching the Oscars on Sunday night, it was refreshing to see Ellen DeGeneres spoofing the current hassle of returning products to stores and a time when shopping was done differently. If only politicians could return to a time when they focused on their abilities and ideas. The Oscars seemed to […]
As I was writing my “Moos” column last week, my favorite cow (“Daisee”) was calving. I actually didn’t even know, but I had her in the barn since I did think she would be my next one. So in the hour-and-a-half between morning chores and my next check, she had […]
First of all, let me begin with the most important lesson I’ve learned in the last week—courtesy of my first session in grief recovery at Riverside Counselling Services. My brain isn’t broken; my heart is broken. This means I cannot fix my heart with my head. This means my grief […]
I was thinking about making cookies the other night. Oh no, not for me. Certainly not. These cookies would be for my daughters away at school—a treat, a reminder that they are loved, while they are buried in the tests and assignments and uncertainty that life flings at them as […]
American showman P.T. Barnum is credited with saying “there’s a sucker born every minute.” Although it’s never been proven that he actually uttered those famous words, to me it widely describes the annual hype job that is the NHL trade deadline, especially in recent years. Each February, it seems television […]
We finally are getting closer to that part of the winter that we all look forward to: the end. Don’t get me wrong, I love to ice fish. I just like to fish out of a boat even more. With the arrival of March, the end is in sight–the days […]
