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Most of us who have had children are familiar with Goodnight Moon. The book was originally published in 1947, written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. I was surprised by its publishing date. I read the book to my children no less than 3,759 times, a story […]
The community and district witnessed the heroic efforts volunteering makes in times of a pending disaster. From May through mid June volunteers from less than five years of age through to octogenarians hefted shovels, carried sandbags, built dikes along streets and homes and went home after a gruelling day to […]
Lou Brock was somewhere in St. Louis. I was in a hotel room in Houston, on deadline, sweating over writing a story about him for Maclean’s Magazine. At the 11th hour, he returned my call. Stop the press. Brock was hard to catch in those days, by pitchers and catchers […]
July has arrived and our long weekend is already over. Though the weather was decent for the weekend, I am still longing for those warm summer nights. Instead, we are still packing on sweatshirts and longer pants. I sure am counting on a long, beautiful fall. My mom and I […]
The Emo Museum is holding a pie and coffee fundraiser this Friday, July 8 from noon to 3 p.m. All proceeds are to help the Rainy River District Women’s Institute Museum. The Museum opened July 4 and is open for the summer. Admission is a free-will offering. Come out and […]
Waabishki-Miigwan – Bear Clan With great sadness the family announces the passing of Turquoise Gem Morgan-Tom, 34 of Thunder Bay, Ontario, on June 30, 2022, at the Thunder Bay Regional Hospital. Turquoise was born on June 10, 1988, in Thunder Bay, to parents Colin Tom Sr. and Jane Lynn Tom […]
Nora Paulenko, 84, passed away on Sunday, January 9, 2022, in Fort Frances, Ont. A memorial mass will be held on Tuesday, June 12, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Fort Frances.
The bass tournament season is officially underway across Sunset Country as the Shoal Lake Bass Classic took place over the past weekend. As I mentioned in last week’s column, this tournament has been taking place the first weekend in July since the early 90’s and has been a weekend that […]
Aphids are common pests to house plants, vegetables, annual and perennial flowers, ornamental trees and shrubs. They can often be found in the garden, on trees and shrubs and sometimes on houseplants. Look for aphids on susceptible plants in the late spring. If they are present they can often be […]
Gerry Cullen of Kamloops, B.C., passed away on June 19, 2022 at the tender age of 80 years. Survived by her daughters, Sherri (Ray) Weremczuk and Tamara (Mark) Davies, and her beloved granddaughter, Seren Davies, as well as her siblings, Harold, Ellen, Earl, and Dwaine, and many well-loved in-laws, nieces, […]
It is with great sadness that the family of Laura Dillon announces her passing on Sunday, June 26, 2022 in Atikokan, Ontario with family by her side. She was born on September 3, 1925 in Sheho, Saskatchewan to Harry and Anna Smits. She grew up in Saskatchewan before taking Nursing […]
