Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Construction of the new regional hospital is proceeding energetically. It will be big, beautiful, and as state-of-the-art as our public and private purses allow. Actually, I hope even a little more so. Now explorations are underway about whether we should have a northern medical school, and whether we should have […]
Maybe, just maybe, I’ll change over to musky tournaments now that the survival rate is almost guaranteed 100 percent. A customer of mine, Jim Groves, asked me to be his partner at a musky tournament at Cass Lake, Mn. But knowing the survival rate was low, I refused his invitation. […]
“Remember, there’s no such thing as more time,” the seminar leader said in her most emphatic tone. It was a seminar on public presentations, given by a leader with the best of skills in that area. Among other things, she underscored that if you’ve been asked to speak for 15 […]
Dear sir: Yes, it is me again, the guy with the plaid tam, putting on my “thinking cap,” which isn’t always good. When a person has some time on his hands, we start thinking back to past years, in most cases. So it is with me. Many years ago, when […]
Dear sir: We would like to take this opportunity to update all the “Freedom Riders” and the people who pledged money for them. We definitely are planning on getting the arena started next spring. We had 21 cancellations this summer because of weather so it is very necessary to continue […]
Despicable allegations Dear sir: I was infuriated by your front-page article (Oct. 2) concerning the charge of importing child pornography facing a local resident. Your paper took the liberty to arrange police statements in such a manner that it would lead to the assumption that Mr. Anderson was the focus […]
Dear sir: An old Finnish saying literally translated says, “Do not show incomplete projects to fools or wise ones.” Perhaps what follows may apply but, on the other hand, it also may suggest items to be fixed. I had occasion Oct. 1 crossing the industrial bridge here to use my […]
Bicycles are associated with more childhood injuries than any other consumer product other than the automobile. Each year in Canada and the United States, hundreds of children aged 14 and under are killed in bicycle-related incidents and more than 400,000 are injured. Some 90 percent of bicycle-related deaths are the […]
The Bufflehead is a very small duck, with the males weighing a pound and females still smaller. Many of you hunters will know these as “butterballs.” This is because, in the fall, they store up a large amount of fat for use during the long migration south. The male bird […]
Elfva E. Larson, 87, of Atikokan, Ont., passed away at Atikokan General Hospital in Atikokan on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2000. She was born June 1, 1913 in Fort Frances, Ont., to Sven (Swan) E. and Stina Carlson. On Jan. 8, 1931, she was united in marriage to Edmond Walter Larson […]
James Henry “Chub” Hyatt Jr., 79, formerly of Devlin, Ont., passed away peacefully at Rainycrest Home for the Aged in Fort Frances, Ont., on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2000.
Jake Kehler, 76, of 301 Kerr Place, Fort Frances, Ont., passed away at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2000. He was born Jan. 7, 1924 in Altona, Man. to the late Henry and Sarah Kehler. Jake worked in Thunder Bay, Ont. as a diesel […]
