“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind,” wrote Samuel Ullman at the turn of the last century. At the time, Ullman was already past 70. Furthermore, his hearing loss had forced him to retire from his business. But his retirement afforded him an opportunity […]
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This Week In Emo
This Week In Emo
Longtime Emo merchant Gordon Meyers suffered a heart attack earlier this month and he had to have double bypass surgery in Winnipeg on Tuesday. Fortunately, the operation was successful and Gordon is now recovering. His son, Grant, and daughter, Dr. Kim Pearce, have been with Gordon throughout the ordeal. The […]
Allan Cup memories of 1952 are still very strong for many of our fans like Les Helliar of Nestor Falls, who calls me the “editor of nostalgia” and sends in the following notes—along with his disbelief that 50 years have gone by so quickly! He writes: Those of us lucky […]
Although the 109th edition of the Stanley Cup playoffs begins tonight, my personal “Cup Craze” ended just as quickly as it began five days earlier. That’s when the Edmonton Oilers dropped a 2-0 decision to the Calgary Flames—eliminating them from the playoffs for the first time in six years. While […]
With not a whole lot of new faces sitting around the Cabinet table after Monday’s shuffle, Ontarians are sure to get antsy pretty quickly wondering just how Premier Ernie Eves plans to usher in a “kinder, gentler” government than that of his predecessor, Mike Harris. And you can’t blame them. […]
Dear editor: Could you please put in the newspaper for people to pick up trash? All around Fort Frances and other places. There should be trash cans around the town. If there’s no trash can, bring it home and put it in the garbage. At the old high school, at […]
Dear editor: Build a new Customs facility, then have a traffic study? It certainly has a cart-before-the-horse ring to it. As most of you know, a traffic flow study before building the facility would have been more realistic. Of course, there would have been no need for a traffic study […]
Dear editor: I am writing in response to the Tetu sentencing in last week’s paper. I was shocked and appalled at how easy he got off. Ten years for manslaughter—and he can apply for parole in five. I think he got off pretty easy considering Deanna is serving a life […]
Dear editor: I was so shocked to read the news online about the sudden passing of our friend, Tony Beyak. I didn’t know how to send my condolences to his family so I thought I would do it, via online, through your newspaper. Lynn, I want to express my deepest […]
Newest concern Dear sir: According to your April 10 article, Michael Tetu will be eligible for parole in five years. This isn’t exactly the precedent you want to set in a town that is concerned about its lack of population growth. Unless, your goal is to create an influx of […]
Dear sir: I read the letters to the editor in regards to the smoking ban with great interest. I am a RN in a cardio-intensive care unit, and I see the results of what smoking does to our bodies and the withdrawals patients experience after surgery. Although there are many […]
Dear sir: On April 5, the headline on the front page of the Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal read “Lead Found in Drinking Water.” This was a news article about a Grade 7 student, Joe Frenette, who discovered—while working on his project for the science fair—that there was 0.03 mg of […]
