WINDEGO-Born to Jordan Windego and Elita Boshkaykin, of Fort Frances, Ontario, a girl, Varissa Zara Jeslynn, weighing 6 lbs 15 oz on December 17, 2016 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.
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INDIAN-HARPER-Born to Dayna Harper and Bob Indian, a girl, Noah Rae, weighing 8 lbs 5 oz on December 5, 2016 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.
William Steven Kempf (“Willie”), beloved husband, father, and uncle, passed peacefully into eternal rest on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 at La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. with his wife, Bernice, and sons, John and Michael, at his side. Willie was born to Martin (Sr.) and Agnes (Melich) Kempf on […]
In 1992, a shipping container fell overboard on its way from China to the United States, releasing 29,000 rubber ducks into the Pacific Ocean. Ten months later, the first of these rubber ducks washed ashore on the Alaskan coast. Since then, these ducks have been found in Hawaii, South America, […]
We are moving quickly into that final stretch before the big day! I finally got my upstairs tree up on Sunday. But as I was dragging it in from the minus-34 temperature, and the needles and branches were following off, I did think to myself, “Why do we do this […]
In what has become a tradition over the past decade for me and my friends, we took our annual late-season moose hunting trip up north last week for the last few days of the 2016 Ontario rifle season. We like the late-season hunting because we can use snowmobiles to get […]
Christmas Day will arrive shortly. My friend, David Iwanyszyn, posted a photo on Facebook on Sunday night showing off the Christmas tree in his home loaded with gifts and wishing everyone a “Happy St. Nicholas Day”—a Ukrainian tradition. On the eve of Dec. 19, children receive gifts from St. Nicholas. […]
I was at a mall in Vancouver last week—a really big mall comprised of three levels; a shopping maze that even the brightest of us would struggle to find his/her way from. I’m fairly certain a GPS should be standard issue upon entrance to the mall. I wasn’t shopping, not […]
