The family of Almerinda “Queenie” Lesczynski (nee Sampaio), age 98, regret with great sadness the announcement of her death on December 5, 2023, at Rainycrest LTC. She was born in the parish of Santa Luzia in the city of Angra do Heroismo on the island of Teceira, Azores, Portugal, on […]
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Muskie Boys Teddy Bear Toss game! Friday night, December 8th, Muskie Boys take on Sioux North in their first home regular season game. The game will be played on ’52 Canadians. Bring a new stuffed toy to toss on the ice after the Muskies score their first goal. Toys go […]
Tiger Woods has been a “distant replay” for quite a while now and that’s not really expected to change. He turns 48 this month. To escape being the Distant Replay he now is on these pages, Tiger would have to win his 16th major. His 15th was almost five years […]
Dear editor, Today, December 1, was the very first time that we, living on Hwy 602 (or the River Road) were able to use “our road” to drive to town again. Just wanted to say a big Thank You to all the construction folks involved in removing the old bridge […]
Dear editor, As 2024 approaches the debate and media coverage on the proposed nuclear waste dump for northwestern Ontario is heating up. 2024 is the year in which the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) will select a site to dump all of the radioactive toxic waste produced by the Canadian […]
Dear Editor: My name is Lisa Neighbour, and I’m a resident of the city of Toronto. I just wanted to spread the word that GTA residents are very much against moving the Ontario Science Centre, and building a huge private spa at Ontario Place. The reason I thought you and […]
Dear editor: Who wouldn’t want a ceasefire? Ending war is always good, right? Well, no. Right now, in parliament and across the country, we see people wrapping themselves in the flag of peace, calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. This is a simplistic, smug approach that fails to […]
In last week’s column I wrote about the first week of the fishing adventure that Bryan Gustafson and I took over to Australia to compete some barramundi tournaments. Barramundi are one of Australia’s most popular fish species and the ABT tournament series were having a run of four events over […]
The Christmas cactus makes a great holiday plant gift and are starting to see it available at local nurseries and floral shops. The Schlumbergera spp. family is not a desert cactus but a species that is found attached to trees in moist woodlands and jungles. The typical forest cacti have […]
Well, I am close to finishing my outside light display! I have something in mind that I would like to make for the barn, but it might be an all-winter project. I didn’t work on it full time this weekend as I wanted to check out Emo Holly Days and […]
Byrne Lee Johnson, “a true Rainy Lake boy”, died December 2, 2023, in his home, weeks before his 94th birthday. Born December 20, 1929, in Hibbing, Minn., to Don and Layna (Cobb) Johnson, he arrived on Rainy Lake in early January of 1930, to reside in an uninsulated cabin at […]
