Someone paid me a heart-warming compliment recently, revealing to me that I enriched life during time spent together. I’ve learned to say thanks for sincere moments of offering like that. There was a time when I would have reduced the accolade with “Oh, don’t be silly” or “I don’t know […]
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Marie Antoinette, prior to the French Revolution, may have chided the crowd by saying “Let them eat cake” when told her French subjects had no bread. She became the most hated symbol of the French aristocracy. The end for Marie Antoinette was that she lost her head. I couldn’t help […]
Last week was another busy one in Ottawa with an update into the Senate scandal audits, a new budget date and the first spending announcement from it, and the tabling of a second motion of mine on the pension file. The big news come via an update from the Auditor […]
As the ice lingers on lakes across Sunset Country after a cold snap over the past couple of weeks, there is not much else an angler can do except just keep ice-fishing. Earlier this week, my friend, Sean McAughey, and I got out to chase burbot—a fish species that’s widely […]
It was a cold and blustery day but the breakfast picnic had been planned earlier so we went ahead anyway. By the shore of a local lake, three young families fried their bacon and eggs on two Coleman stoves. In order to keep the flame alive and everyone warm, we […]
There was plenty of pink being worn around Fort Frances today to commemorate the International Day of Pink, which is held annually on the second Wednesday of April. Activities were planned at local schools, school buses were plastered with messages like “Bully-Free Zone” on their windows, and many staffers at […]
Patrick (Pat) Maxwell Hickerson passed away March 28, 2015 after a courageous battle with cancer. He was born Jan. 2, 1956 in Fort Frances, Ont. Pat is survived by his loving wife, Kelly, son, Kevan, and daughter, Kira, all of Kelowna, B.C. He also is survived by his mother, Evelyn […]
It is with great sadness that the family announces the passing of Kitty Meadwell, with family at her side, on Thursday, April 2, 2015 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. at the age of 88. Kitty was born June 5, 1926 in Tasjo, Sweden. When Kitty was […]
John James Plasky passed away Saturday, March 28, 2105 at La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. John was born Jan. 19, 1943 in Fort Frances to John and Mary Plasky. After school, he joined the navy and worked as a cook. Later on, he worked at the paper mill […]
It is with great sadness that the family of Maurice LaForest announces his passing on Thursday, April 2, 2015. He was born Oct. 19, 1928, in Fort Frances, Ont. to Joseph Alphonse and Valerie (Turgeon) LaForest. Maurice lived his entire life in Fort Frances, with his first home being at […]
It is with great sorrow that the family of Ruth Lowes announces her passing on Thursday, April 2, 2015 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. Ruth was born May 1, 1931 in Fort Frances to Axel and Violet Selin. She was united in marriage to W.A. “Bill” […]
Word has been received that Lee Ulch, formerly of International Falls, Mn., passed away in Gladbrook, Iowa. Lee had many notable achievements, among them being the first local skeet shooter to break 50-straight. which occurred in 1961. He went on to win the prestigious Hiram Walker Trophy, presented annually by […]
