Mrs. Teresa (Terry) Elizabeth Stuart, nee Ryan, passed away peacefully, with her family at her side, on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015 in her home at Pinewood Court in Thunder Bay, Ont. She was born March 31, 1919 in Winnipeg, Man. and resided in Sleeman, Ont. until the age of seven, […]
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It is with sadness the family announces the passing of Calvin Raymond Thorpe on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. He was born Oct. 20, 1927 on a farm near Foxwarren, Man., the first of four children to Alvin and Bella Thorpe. He had a happy childhood, enjoying playing in the school […]
It is with deep sadness that the family of Calvin Thorpe announces his passing on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. Funeral arrangements are pending and a complete obituary will follow.
As a kid, we started calving pretty much any time after Christmas! In fact, I think we had a calf or two on Christmas Day. I have never forgotten the long month of January that Nanny always dreaded. It was the longest month, and it was cold and snowy. I […]
Flying isn’t for the faint of heart. Actually, travel of any kind is meant for the hardy, for the resilient, and for the patiently tolerant adaptable club of individuals, of which I am not often a member. I’ve now been up for 25 hours on my travel home from Maui. […]
For a guy from Kenora getting to travel around the southern U.S. to fish bass tournaments on the FLW Tour, I truly can say I’m getting to live one of my dreams. Last week, I left home for Florida to get ready for my first tournament of the season at […]
I will reach the age of 65 later this year. Shortly after my last birthday, the government sent me a notice to begin applying for my Canada Pension and Old Age Security. I wondered at the time if the government was trying to tell me something. In the last five […]
In spite of its enormous but rapidly-shrinking contribution to the Canadian economy, the forestry sector never has been a priority for this government or the Ottawa crowd in general. With that being said, I’m happy to report that the Natural Resources Committee of the House of Commons has committed to […]
I still remember how much fun it was to get my second master’s degree and how sad it was when the last class was finished. The university was a two-and-a-half hour drive from our home. I drove up every Tuesday afternoon, stayed overnight, and came back Wednesday morning. And my […]
Not surprisingly, the Ontario government’s decision to update the sex education curriculum has been greeted by howls of protest, including here in Rainy River District, where a meeting hosted by the Parents As First Educators (PARE) group drew about 75 people last month at the Emo Inn. Many of the […]
Dear editor: I found it very ironic that there were two news articles dealing with the Town of Fort Frances in last Wednesday’s Times. One article was about the new “branding,” which is a great idea. The story went on to discuss the situation we are all aware of (the […]
Dear editor: We are viewing with alarm the fact that nothing is planned or funded to deal with the problems of sewage flooding our basements and parts of our homes every spring that an event occurs; that no control is used by our town. We continue to clean up the […]
