It’s been a long time but I still remember the signs in the windows. Not in our window, fortunately, but in the windows of neighbouring families. The sign that said “Quarantined–Scarlet Fever.” And everyone stayed away. Sometimes if the man of the household was lucky, he didn’t get the disease. […]
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Dear sir: I have been told our local snowmobile club has purchased a new groomer. Now I wonder how many businessmen would put a bunch of inexperienced operators on this machine if it was their own piece of machinery, or even a few different operators–not qualified–to run it? Some of […]
Dear sir: I would like to thank some good Samaritans. My daughter, Amy, and I were in an accident on our way to Thunder Bay during the snowstorm on Nov. 10. We slid off the road and hit a rock cut. Thank you, Gar Faragher and Hugh Dennis, for getting […]
Dear editor, This past week, I had the privilege of attending the Premier’s Conference on the Economy: Jobs and Prosperity Ontario in the New Millennium, which brought together individuals from business, labour, Métis and First Nations communities, municipal and provincial government, and non-government organizations from all sectors of our region. […]
The Canadian Red Cross has been helping Canadians lead safer, healthier lives for close to 100 years. In fact, many of their programs and services are considered to be among the best in the world. The Canadian Red Cross has been working together with partners like Fire Prevention Canada to […]
It’s been 80 years since the armistice was signed to end World War One–the so-called war to end all wars. Of course, it wasn’t. In fact, the world was engulfed in an even more deadly and destructive conflict just 21 years later. Korea followed after that, then Vietnam and the […]
I am writing this letter in response to letters to the editor and accompanying articles which appeared in local papers dealing with the movement of minor hockey players between Rainy River and Baudette, Mn. In their separate letters, a mother and father expressed their views regarding a recent Minnesota hockey […]
Lillian Larson, 66, of Roy Street, Emo, Ont., passed away Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1998 with her family at her side at Riverside Health Care Facilities in Fort Frances. She was born Aug. 7, 1932 at Finland, Ont. Lillian was a long-time resident of Emo, having lived there since 1952. She […]
For the most part, my beautiful white dog, Phoebe, is carefree and happy. She chases her toy when we throw it, and dances about excitedly when she hears the word “walk.” She waits patiently until treats are offered but pushes her dog dish out into the centre of the room […]
Howard Kinnear, 86, of the Golden Age Manor in Emo, Ont., passed away Saturday, Nov. 7, 1998 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. He was born June 9, 1912 in Toronto, Ont. to the late Edgar and Millicent Kinnear. Howard later moved to Souris, Man., of which […]
Elsie Helen Cyr, 40, of Northwest Bay First Nation, Ont., went to be with God the Father in Heaven on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 1998. Funeral services were held Sunday, Nov. 8, 1998 at the Ponemah Community Center. Interment was held at the family burial grounds in Ponemah, Mn. under the […]
“A change in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the curve.” On Sept. 12, 1929, Clifford Merle McIntosh was born in Dauphin, Man. He passed away Sunday, Nov. 1, 1998 at Atikokan General Hospital. As a young man, Cliff was an avid […]
