Christmas is a wonderful time for sentiment. And for me, part of the nostalgia is watching all my favourite movies of the season: “Christmas in Connecticut,” “White Christmas,” “Holiday Inn,” “Miracle on 34th Street,” and “A Christmas Story.” But as far as inspiration goes, there’s nothing to match the 1946 […]
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With only a sleep or two left before the big day, if you haven’t picked up all of the presents for everybody on your Christmas list, you might need some help. Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to find gifts for people who enjoy the outdoors, especially in our part of the […]
Dale Booth Hey Mike: Over the past few weeks, the town of Fort Frances has been on TV five or six times a day with that new Tim Hortons commercial. And for those of us who now live in other parts of Canada, it sure makes us miss the little […]
Donna M. Kroocmo Dear editor: We are in the midst of the holiday season, with parades, festivities, and celebrations that include the number-one date-rape drug available: alcohol. Disturbing information has come to our attention recently involving other date-rape drugs being used in our district, and we believed it was imperative […]
Troy Kenneth Basaraba, 42, of Cloquet, Mn., passed away Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015 at the Cloquet Community Memorial Hospital. He was born Dec. 30, 1972 in Fort Frances, Ont. Troy was involved in football, hockey, and track and field in high school. He graduated from Falls High School in 1991 […]
It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden passing of our dear brother, Marcel Raymond Gouliquer, 62, of Rainy River, Ont., on Friday, Dec. 18, 2015 at the Rainy River Health Centre. Marcel was born May 26, 1953 in Emo, Ont. to Antoine (Tony) and Rose Gouliquer. He […]
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 […]
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 […]
