Born to Jeffrey and Jillian, nee Mainville, of Fort Frances, Ontario, a boy, Clark Jeffrey, weighing 8 lbs 8 oz on October 8, 2020 at LaVerendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.
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My Grandpa Stewart took me on adventures, before I was old enough for school and while my father was busy clearing land and though it seems in my memory as if there were only a few such adventures, the importance is found in the details. Frank Ezra Stewart, his middle […]
As many of you know last month I lost Norma, my Pearl of the Orient, the love of my life. Norma was also the inspiration for many a Squirrel Pie tale. Norma claimed she hated me chronicling her madcap escapades, but then would turn around and do something just as […]
In only one week, most of the leaves have fallen to the forest floor. The bright yellows, oranges and reds have again disappeared from our landscapes. The sun does not arrive above the horizon until almost eight in the morning and disappears shortly after 6:30 in the evening. We are […]
Another Monday after a cattle sale! And to top it off I took Friday off, so I am really rushing around trying to get on track. We survived another cattle sale – and of course it decided to turn into winter for us! Thankfully Saturday we didn’t get any precipitation […]
Patrick LaMontagne
In the winter of 1998, my wife Shonna and I took a trip to Las Vegas. It was the early days of the internet, so we booked through a travel agent, which is why we ended up at the Treasure Island hotel. A pirate ship battle in the lagoon multiple […]
Robin McCormick
Devlin correspondent
Devlin correspondent
The Dance Community Hall may be coming back to life. If volunteers have anything to do with it, this will happen with a large amount of changes being done to the Hall. This Hall was once a vital part of the Dance Township, and if things go as planned the […]
Over the past eight years that I have made my living as a professional bass tournament competitor, I have fished back-to-back events several times. I like it because most of the venues that we fish are so far from home for me, so knocking off two events in one trip […]
Linda LaFrance, 80, died peacefully Monday, October 19, 2020, at Baptist Health Louisville in Louisville, KY. She was born September 4, 1940 in Fort Frances, ON and lived most of her adult life in Minneapolis, MN. She moved to Louisville to be closer to her family after retiring as the […]
Sadly the family announce the passing of Louis Kirkrude, 75, of Big Island First Nation on Saturday, October 17, 2020 at his residence. Louis was born on September 15, 1945 to parents George Sr. and Ruth Kirkrude. He enjoyed hunting, trapping, fishing, logging and worked for numerous contractors over the […]
