Dear editor: This afternoon (Saturday, April 5), I was in my backyard with my dogs. Looking at us from the bottom of the yard were 22 deer. Do the town fathers have any plans in place to handle this? Thank you, Jane Trivers Fort Frances, Ont.
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Gladys Grace Mackay passed away Saturday, April 5, 2014 at the Mountain View Manor at the age of 87. Gladys was born in Fort Frances, Ont., the fourth of five children, to Perley and Florence Holmes. She is survived by her sister, Helen (Julius) Toth. She was predeceased by her […]
Louisa May (Tippy Armit) Johnson, 72, went to a better place on Tuesday, April 8, 2014 in the United Hospital in St. Paul Mn. with her family at her side. Services will be in Apple Valley, with a memorial in Fort Frances, Ont. at a later date. A complete obituary […]
How does that old saying go? He who has the money makes the rules (or words to that effect). That’s obviously the case with the Ministry of Education, which denied the Rainy River District School Board’s application for funding to build a new Donald Young School in Emo. The future […]
John W. M. “Jack” LIDKEA Deceased April 5, 2014 Age 87 Markdale, ON Survived by his wife Bette, daughters Paula (Rick) Loxton, Dana Kelso and son Steve (Roxanna) and their families. Also survived by his brother Dr. Robert (Margaret) Lidkea and their family.
Sunday teased us that spring actually might be happening. The rain gutters melted out. The downspouts were shooting water across my sidewalks into the banks of snow that were ready to soak up all that moisture. I suspect that the water eventually worked its way across the yard and onto […]
We had a pretty good turnout at our abattoir general meeting last week. Still, it does make me wonder about some of the producers that didn’t bother to come. Do they not care? Not see the value? Would they not like input? What will they say if we close? We […]
Every day I have choice to make. Happy. Not happy. The happiness balance is tedious, constant work. Sometimes I do it well; sometimes I do appallingly. Today was one of those “not-do-it-so-well” days. My Monday got turned around like the weather and I found myself in the linger of thoughts […]
Heading into the third FLW Tour stop of the season this past weekend at the Sam Rayburn Reservoir in Texas, I have to admit I was feeling a little bit of pressure to put up a good finish. My results in the first two events were not good—finishing in the […]
Did you know you can’t believe everything you read online? If so, then at least you are one step ahead of Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. We learned last week that to save a few bucks, the Harper government has been using the help wanted ads on www.kijiji.ca to build our […]
Unlike my good friend, Nancy, I never had a “hankering” for travel. Nancy has floated down the Amazon, toured the pyramids, and visited friends in Japan. She creates fascinating scrapbooks of her journeys, which she then shares with her friends. As for me, I’ve always preferred staying at home when […]
Sheila was in a blue funk. Her office recently had the lighting updated—the chief result being her radio no longer could pull in our local hog-rastlin’ music station. What to do? “Why don’t you take your satellite radio into work? You know I never listen to it at home during […]
