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 […]
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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, […]
Many people spend hours cleaning prior to Christmas, including me. I wore out two toothbrushes and an entire bottle of “Mean Green” getting the grout in my tile all polished up. I lucked out with fewer walls to wash this year since I just finished getting fresh paint in more […]
I originally wrote this in 2007. It is worth a reprint. Some of our most vivid memories are of childhood events. We old codgers may not be able to remember what we had for breakfast, but can recall every detail of our first Christmas concert. At my first, I was […]
In this edition of the Fort Frances Times, we will publish the “Message of Glad Tidings” taken from the New Testament Book of Luke, Chapter 2 verses 8-11. Published for the 80th time with this Christmas edition, it is a tradition that was begun by my grandfather and his partner […]
What do you want for Christmas? We all have asked that question, and have been asked it. I always come up with a blank. Socks, underwear, fresh tea towels. I just shake my head—coming up with nothing much. I remember wanting a Wonderful Wendy doll, from the Eaton’s catalogue, when […]
When August and I got married back in September, we felt like we wanted to wait until winter set in to take our honeymoon. We wanted to go somewhere warm, and get a little break from the deep freeze we get for four months, rather than travel during the short […]
What does Christmas mean to me? It means joyfully witnessing the tornado that is the unwrapping of gifts by my grandchildren, who annually justify my belief that spending 10 minutes to wrap a gift in picture-perfect style is pointless when it takes children what seems like one-10th of a second […]
