It is with deep sadness that the family of James Robert “Shadow” Perreault announces his passing on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013. Funeral services will be held on Friday, January 3, 2014 at 10:30 a.m. at Green Funeral Home with Father Victor DeGagne officiating. Friends may visit with the family on […]

Dear editor, As a family we certainly would like to congratulate you for your annual “Glad Tidings” editorial, taken from Luke chapter two. I know we have often voiced our appreciation to each other for this very special message on Christmas Day. I also found it neat to hear somewhat […]

Dear editor: On behalf of local seniors at the Sister Kennedy Centre, I would like to say we had a great year. Our records show we surpassed, by huge numbers, our 2012 attendance—and we are continuing to grow. This is an extremely proud event, and we will do everything to […]

As always, we plan and prepare much longer than it takes our special day to come and go! Here’s hoping everyone enjoyed themselves and got a belly full—the problem seems to be that our bellies continually get full! I overdid it on Christmas Eve so I had to take it […]

As soon as Boxing Day has passed and I know for certain that Christmas has departed and taken my visiting daughters with it and I have managed to quit sobbing and have dried my eyes, then I have a tremendous urge for lists. These lists need not necessarily be of […]

HARTNELL–Born to Allan and Madeline, of Rainy River, Ontario, a boy, Henry Isaac, weighing 7 lbs. 13 oz. on December 18, 2013 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.

DRENNAN–Born to Sara Gall and Nolan Drennan, of Rainy River, Ontario, a boy, Jonah Mathew James, weighing 9 lbs. 1 oz. on December 17, 2013 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.

GIBSON–Born to John and Christa, Nee McTaggart, of Fort Frances, Ontario, a boy, Owen Radley, weighing 8 lbs. 7 oz. on December 16, 2013 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.

Kathryn Oakes-Sisco passed away Friday, Dec. 20, 2013 at Rainy River Health Centre in Rainy River, Ont. At time of fellowship will held on Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013 from 10 a.m.-noon at Northridge Funeral Home in Emo, Ont. Online condolences may be offered at www.northridgefuneralhome.com A full obituary will follow.

The holidays and the end of another year finally are upon us, so this will be my final column of 2013 and the second part of the “year in review.” As summer came upon us in 2013, so did an incredible human tragedy. Early on the morning of July 6, […]