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By Al Lowe
Contributor

This past week in Ottawa was a busy one with continued uncertainty surrounding Harper’s plans to change Old Age Security (OAS), a key vote on the Long Gun Registry, and a meeting with my fellow New

This week I am participating in a Poverty Challenge, organized by Making Kenora Home, a group that advocates on behalf of the homeless in Kenora.

By Walter Wagner
President

The Super Bowl Party was OK. The next important thing at the Legion will be an executive meeting on February 9th, 2012 at 7 p.m.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

•Aphids: Plant onions around plants susceptible to aphid infections, especially roses.

In the home that I grew up in, the use of vulgar language was never tolerated. Even the use of descriptive terms to identify bodily functions would result in a strong verbal reprimand. We used numbers instead to describe those functions.
As I grew up, other words came to our attention and I brought them into my vocabulary. It wasn’t until I used the quick four letter word in an expletive curse too close to my mother’ ear that I suffered any severe consequences. By then I was too old to have my mouth washed out with soap as had been an earlier consequence.

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA Rep.

Calving time is very near or started already for some and with it comes some calving problems.

By Al Lowe
Contributor

This past week was not a good one for Stephen Harper’s government, but it was far worse for Canadians who take their citizenship and rights seriously and for seniors and baby boomers with lower than

One of the most important issues to me is consumer awareness of hydro and natural gas retailers.