JONES-Born to Shawna Jones, of Fort Frances, Ontario, a girl, Zoe Jones, weighing 9 lbs. 5 oz. on January 3, 2016 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.
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It is with heavy hearts that the family of Florence Louise Hill announces her passing, with family by her side, on Monday, Jan. 11, 2016 at La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. Florence was born April 14, 1926 in Fort Frances to George Valentine and Isabel Jane Calder. She […]
Growing up in New York state, I saw lots of interesting sights: Niagara Falls, Watkins Glen, the 1,000 Islands in the St. Lawrence River, the Adirondacks, and New York City. But one thing I missed seeing was the Chautauqua Institution. Although my daughter has spent summers at Chautauqua for years, […]
I haven’t worn long underwear on a regular basis in almost 50 years. Growing up and playing outside, we didn’t have today’s super-insulated parkas and snow pants. What we had were lined jeans, long underwear, and felt boots that were encased in rubber boots. We all had toques that kept […]
It was my life ambition to be a mermaid. I know what you’re going to ask: how did that turn out? Not well, I must confess. I am not the greatest swimmer and my hair is not long enough to do the mermaid thing properly. Oh, and my voice doesn’t […]
Birth date verification, or age verification of beef cattle–what is it? Age verification is the association of animal birth date data with an Animal Identification Number (single tag or tag group). There is an ever-increasing demand for accurate age determination in Canadian cattle. As such, there is a system in […]
The cold weather that’s been around for the past few days, uncomfortable as it is, has done wonders to fix the ice conditions on lakes across Sunset Country. After a mild December, most of the lakes across the region had very poor ice conditions heading into the new year. Heavy […]
As we all expected, the cold weather finally has found us—though it sounds like we still are better off than many other places, with heavy wind gusts hitting much of southern Ontario again. Northern Ontario did make the news with the failure of the bridge over the Nipigon River. I […]
ATATISE-KABATAY-Born to Shannon Kabatay and Edward Atatise Jr. of Fort Frances, Ontario, a boy, Grayson Thunder, weighing 8 lbs. 2 oz. on December 27, 2015 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.
HUNTLEY-STEVENS-Born to Ashley Stevens and Terrance Huntley, of Fort Frances, Ontario, a boy, Ivan Davin, weighing 7 lbs. 2 oz. on December 25, 2015 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.
