With her family close by her side, Margaret Bethel Miller, 89, passed away peacefully on Friday, Nov. 24, 2006 at La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. Bethel was born March 15, 1917 in Hawarden, Sask. to Herb and Margaret Jerry. Mom’s working career was varied. She worked at local […]
Features
It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and sister, Lois Judson, 89, of Rainycrest Home for the Aged, 550 Osborne St., Fort Frances, Ont., on Monday, Nov. 27, 2006 at LaVerendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances. Lois was born July 31, 1917 […]
At home with family by her side, Fran passed away Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006 at the age of 66. Fran was born April 13, 1940 in Toronto, Ont. At an early age, she moved to Fort Frances, Ont. with her parents. She attended St. Mary’s grade school, then went on […]
It is with deepest sorrow that the family of Emmy Julia Gavin announces her quiet passing on Monday, Nov. 27, 2006 in Pickering, Ont. at the age of 84. Emmy came to Canada with her parents, Jonas and Anna Seger (Lindberg), as a small child. She married Frederick Gavin in […]
A Canadian Press story which ran in the Daily Bulletin last week said prescription narcotics now top heroin as the opiate of choice among drug addicts on the streets of five major cities across the country. Perhaps it’s not so surprising, then, that local addiction counsellors revealed Saturday that abuse […]
Dear editor: About mid-June, my spouse was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the adrenal gland and lungs. Her family doctor in Thunder Bay had not given her a complete physical examination for three years—no CT scan, MRI, or X-ray. A more thorough blood test would have indicated the adrenal gland […]
Dear Mr. Editor: There is a lot of talk these days about “global warming” or the updated term “climate change.” The “global warming” myth started around 40 years ago as a “Cold War” propaganda. The Soviets claimed the rocket exhaust from the big Saturn V rocket would “punch a hole […]
Dear sir: The big concern some have over uninspected, locally-grown, and butchered meat hanging with government-inspected meat is not a big issue. This has been going on for years! Really now, let’s think back, as far back as you can remember, just how long has this been going on? I’m […]
Back in late September, just as the municipal election campaign was getting underway, almost 57 percent of the 141 respondents to the Times’ weekly web poll said they supported the mail-in ballot system. But in the wake of all the rejected ballots and other problems encountered with the mail-in system […]
Dear editor: I’m writing about the problem we are having with the government in regards to beef that is inspected and uninspected. It was pointed out by another writer that wild meat, for some reason, seems to be exempt from inspection policies. We do not know what the deer, the […]
To the editor: My name is Edith Jacqueline Agnes Aungiers Rawlins, born to Salvation Army parents in Halifax, N.S. two or three years before the Great Depression. My parents came from Glasgow and from Middlesboro, Yorkshire. I was with five siblings, in the Salvation Army, in Truro, where we learned […]
