Like many people at the beginning of a new year, I started a new year’s resolution to eat healthier and exercise more in 2020. Now, nearly 2 months in, I have pretty much cut out any alcohol, try to hit the gym at least 5 days per week, and have […]
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Margaret Koles, 90, of Rainycrest Long Term Care, Fort Frances, Ontario, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020 at the La Verendrye Hospital with her family by her side. Funeral mass will be held on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. A complete […]
The Fort Frances Curling Club will be hosting an Introduction to Wheelchair Curling, in anticipation of the Northern Ontario Provincial Wheelchair Championships. The event is open to the general public and free of charge. It will take place Friday, Feb. 21 from 10 a.m. to noon, at the Fort Frances […]
It was bound to happen. Finally, my bathroom scale has had a nervous breakdown. In the post-holiday season, as I started my annual lament on how my clothes were continuing to shrink, my good wife, the Pearl of the Orient, put things in focus for me. “It’s not your clothes, […]
I find myself, this morning as I sit at my desk, thinking about those people who helped shape my character when I was growing up. Not the idols whose pictures I taped to my bedroom walls. Not the athletes who inspired me to run faster and jump higher. Not the […]
I am hoping that everyone enjoyed their “Family Day!” I know some wee busy working, as it isn’t a holiday for everyone. The weather was decent so at least everyone might be able to get outside and enjoy some fresh air! I have started to calve! I was right, I […]
“Like a hand from the dark house came the intense aroma of firewood in the pile. The aroma was visible as if the tree were alive. As if it still breathed.” Taken from Ode To the Smell of Wood by Pablo Neruda When I was in my teens every morning, […]
Johanna (Annie) Anselmia Pruys was born April 20, 1928 in Ulft, Holland to Elizabeth and William Nyland. She passed peacefully on Feb. 16, 2020. She was united in marriage to John Pruys in 1957. They spent their lives on the “farm” in Devlin. They had four sons; Leo (Kathy), Frank, […]
It is with heavy hearts we announce the passing of a very big hearted man, Robert James Brown (Bob) Feb. 12, 2020. He peacefully passed into the arms of his family at the age of 85. Bob was born to John and Emma Brown of Stratton Ontario on Oct. 4, […]
David Wilfred Craven took his Saviour’s hand and walked into his eternal home on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020 at 11:30 in the morning. David was born March 3, 1935 to Thomas and Mabel Craven of North Branch, Ont., the fourth child in a family of eight. Davie spent his childhood […]
Laura passed away peacefully on Feb. 16, 2020 with her family by her side at her home at Rainycrest. She was born on June 9 1922, in Kenville, Manitoba, the youngest of six children born to Annie May (Woolford) and James Best Gawley. As a child she moved with her […]
Adolph (Ed) Kliner of Kelowna, born on Dec. 13, 1927 near Fort Frances, Ont., went to be with his Lord on Feb. 2, 2020. Ed was united in marriage at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Winnipeg, Man. on April 15, 1950 to Ruth Claudia Kliner (nee Burron) and is survived by […]
