Gladys Smith, 47, of Devlin, Ont., will be resting in peace in heaven as she passed away peacefully Thursday, April 9, 1998 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. Gladys was born April 9, 1951 in Fort Frances, where she was raised. In 1968, she met her husband, […]
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Richard Gordon Cooper passed away peacefully at Ladysmith General Hospital on April 5, 1998. He was born in Emo, Ont. in 1910, where he lived until he joined the navy in the Second World War. Gordon served as radar operator on corvette duty on the North Atlantic for three-and-a-half years. […]
Editor: I would like to use your letters column to publicly thank everyone who has expressed their love and concern for my son, Lantana Wind Dancer, whose story was told in last week’s Fort Frances Times (“Toddler survives dog attack”). I’d thank all in person but there are so many […]
Oops, let me rephrase that. Daylight Saving Time is great. Getting that extra hour of sunlight in the evening does marvels for the soul gripped with the last vestiges of the winter blahs–even if this winter wasn’t particularly long, or cold, or plagued by repeated snow shovelling. What I detest […]
The woodcock is a funny-looking bird–hard to see, hard to shoot, and with a lot of its sense organs out of place. The woodcock is a mottled brown colour, much like that of dead leaves. You can almost step on him before he roars up in your face and disappears […]
Arnold Gerhard Kaemingh, 52, of 24 Armstrong Pl., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Tuesday, April 7, 1998 at the Port Arthur General Hospital in Thunder Bay, Ont. He was born Sept. 19, 1945 in Barchem, Gelderland, Holland. Arnold went home to be with his Lord, peacefully after a courageous battle […]
Suddenly on April 6, 1998, Harvey Donald Halverson passed away doing what he enjoyed the most, ice fishing on Crow Lake. Harvey is survived by his wife of 43 years, Esther (Jackson), and his daughters, Glenda (Norbert) Dufresne, Sandra Engstrom (Robert Faulds), Camilla Halverson (Cal Madden), and Colleen Halverson (Peter […]
Edward Ernest “Ed” Watts, 40, of West Bay, Ont., and formerly of Emo, Ont., passed away suddenly Saturday, April 4, 1998 at West Bay. Ed was born March 1, 1958 in Thunder Bay, Ont. but was raised and educated in Finland, Ont. In his younger years, Ed worked in the […]
Dianne Marie Gregoire passed away Thursday, April 2 1998 at the St. Joseph General Hospital in Elliot Lake, Ont. Beloved wife of Raymond Gregoire of Elliot Lake; and dear mother of Russ Gregoire and wife, Angela, of Petawawa, Ont. Dear sister of Lorette Proulx (Roger Deslauriers) of Elliot Lake, and […]
“Grimpons, grimpons,” sings the French professor in the 1960s Disney film, “In Search of the Castaways.” All the while smiling, and making you feel for sure that anything is possible. Anything at all–if you just keep climbing. The word, says actor Maurice Chevalier, means “let’s climb. It is the French […]
Sir: Is Howard Hampton confused or incompetent? On March 21, 1998, he stated in the Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal, on page 4, that “New hospitals are reserved for the wealthy 905 suburbs around Toronto where the Tories get the greatest percentage of their votes.” How can he possibly say that when […]
