PELOWSKI-Born to Melanie Herr and Matt Pelowski, of Fort Frances, Ontario, a girl, Mya Rose, weighing 6 lbs. 14 oz. on March 27, 2015 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.
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GODBOUT-MORRISSEAU-Born to Ravyn Godbout and Cal Morrisseau, of Fort Frances, Ontario, a girl, Victoria Madlynn, weighing 5 lbs. on March 20, 2015 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.
I’m hoping you all enjoyed a great Easter weekend—and that the Easter Bunny found his way to your house! Our own Easter Bunny (“Brownee”) made his way to the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market in Fort Frances on Saturday for a picture-taking session with MA Photography and a bunch of cute […]
If I played hockey for the Ottawa Senators, I would put in a bid to have the name changed, or at the very least request a trade, in light of the recent scrutiny by the Auditor General into the expenses claimed by those privileged few who sit in the Senate. […]
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 […]
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 […]
