Sadly, the family announces the passing of Joanne Lorraine Landry (nee Wilkins), 67, of Barwick, Ont., on Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015, at La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. Joanne was born July 11, 1948 in Sioux Lookout, Ont. to Stanley and Elizabeth Wilkins. She was united in marriage to […]
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The world has come together in Paris and reached a goal of limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius. It is a lofty goal—one not guaranteed by treaties between the 200 nations but rather optimistically hoped for. The new Trudeau government has set a deadline of 90 days to consult […]
Am I too old to build a fort in the living room; to pull the cushions off the couch to use as walls, to drape blankets over top to keep the light and peering eyes out? To use the end table as a secret hidden entrance that requires a special […]
One minute I was having the best of dreams and the next, my eyelids dragged themselves up off my eyeballs to reveal the night—black as the inside of a cow. I looked at the clock. It was 2:30 a.m. The soft jingle of a Christmas bell rolling across the floor […]
I spent the day in Guelph last week at the Beef Farmers of Ontario office, where we were discussing the Northern Cow Herd Expansion program. We would like the herd to grow by 100,000 in Ontario and it seems that we have the land to grow the herd here in […]
It seems a long time ago, and yet just yesterday. It was 25 years of my life–the longest block of my working life. And then I retired. But last Thursday, I went to the Prairie View retirees’ Christmas luncheon and the memories all came back. The place was a-buzz as […]
In what has become a December tradition over the past eight or nine years, some friends and I from Kenora made our annual trip up to Red Lake last week for a late-season moose hunt. We’ve had quite a bit of success over the years—always being able to use our […]
The Ontario Soil & Crop Improvement Association offers free biosecurity workshops for producers. The Biosecurity workshops are a good place to start addressing your on-farm biosecurity program. The workshops have been developed as commodity-specific workshops, in addition to a generic livestock biosecurity workshop. Currently, there are beef, goat and sheep […]
Sports fans love a heated rivalry—and the annual clashes between the Muskie boys’ hockey team and International Falls Broncos each winter certainly fit that bill. And clearly a lot of people would love to see these exhibition showdowns resume. Trouble is, too often it was the “fans”—to use that term […]
Diane Maxey Dear editor: I am so proud of the Fort Frances Choraliers! What absolutely fantastic performances they gave at Rainycrest, the New Beginnings Fellowship Church in Fort Frances, and at the Zion Lutheran Church in International Falls. The balance of sound and the professionalism was second to none! It […]
John Kotnik Dear Mike: Many Junior ‘A’ teams in Canada are privately-owned and financed. The Fort Frances Lakers, for one, are a community-owned and operated team that depends on the community to operate. Such operating costs are not cheap. Without a volunteer board of directors, the sponsors, and a very […]
Glenn Witherspoon Dear editor: Sports rivalry . . . does it exist locally? Apparently not in the eyes or thoughts of our local high school principal, Peggy Keffer. She claims her administration, including the Muskie boys’ hockey coach and athletic director, do not want to play the International Falls Broncos […]
