In the summer when I fly to Toronto or Calgary, on a clear day I can look out the airplane window and marvel at the patchwork quilt of crops below me. I have flown to Calgary and, looking down, have marveled at the brilliant yellow canola plants right up next […]
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Breaking points. We all have them. And sometimes these breaking points come at times that seem slightly strange, hardly warranted, but it is the accumulated affect usually—the last straw so to speak. I witnessed someone hit that wall during my Christmas shopping (not on my top 10 list of favourite […]
As I watched the thing jettison across my kitchen floor and catapult into the spare room, it reminded me of the “Tasmanian Devil” of the “Looney Tunes” cartoon series I used to watch on television when I was 12 years old. Then the fur ball ricocheted back into the kitchen, […]
“Practice makes perfect.” That’s what your mother said when it was time to sit down at the piano. And what your father said when you first learned to bat a ball. Although they probably didn’t know it, your parents were quoting an old proverb dating back more than 2,000 years. […]
The Emo Agricultural Research Station will be closing for the season this week. I finally finished all my data and took it off to be copied. The reports will be available from me or Emo Feed this week. I encourage everyone to ask questions about the trials since time always […]
A few weeks back, my staff and I uncovered a huge amount of what is known as “lapsed” spending—money approved in the federal budget but never spent—at Veterans’ Affairs Canada. Sadly, this past week we also found the same thing is happening at FedNor—and at the worst possible time. Aside […]
Since 2005, I’ve spent the first weekend in December down in Minnesota at the annual St. Paul Ice Fishing Show. It is a big ice-fishing event held at the Xcel Energy Center, the same place the Minnesota Wild play, in a large event centre next to the arena. It’s a […]
There likely were plenty of crossed fingers around town this afternoon as Knox United Church waited to learn if it had advanced to the final round of the Aviva Community Challenge Fund—and a shot at the $100,000 grand prize. Ranked in 14th place in its category as of last night, […]
Cynthia Donald Dear editor: Fort Frances High School was full of developing volleyball players at the Bantam level (Grades 7 and 8) on Saturday, Nov. 29, who were playing the last tournament of the season (a.k.a. the regionals). It was wonderful to see how these students have progressed over the […]
Cathie Sinninghe Dear editor: Christmas is an amazing time to celebrate the birth of Jesus, our Lord and Saviour. People who know me probably knew me when I was an unbelieving Jew/New Age follower—and the fact that I was radically changed 16-and-a-half years ago into a bold follower of Christ […]
Kenneth Earl Jackson (a.k.a. Ken, Kenny, or K.J.) passed away at home, after a lengthy battle against prostate cancer, on Monday, Dec. 1, 2014 at the age of 82. He was born in Barwick Township, Ont. on July 10, 1932. Growing up on the family farm, he learned to appreciate […]
Jennie Marian Mallory, 82, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014 at Rainycrest Long-Term Care in Fort Frances. She was born Nov. 29, 1932 to Nels and Sadie Lindquist in Fort Frances. She was united in marriage to Arleigh Mallory on June 15, 1952 and together they […]
