Columns

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA Rep.

Christmas is just a few days away. Travelling to the International Falls’ airport, we joined many other district parents welcoming their children off the flight Sunday. Children were home for the Christmas holidays. Other parents are braving the highways to meet their children in Winnipeg or Thunder Bay airports and bring them home.
As the pace of Christmas builds this last week, we can be comforted by the fact that come Christmas evening, we will all begin relaxing.

By Michael Dawber
Asst. Librarian

Your holiday reading is in season at the Rainy River Public Library!

By Irene Hanson
RR Hosp. Aux.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

Submitted by
Linda Budreau

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA Rep.

We are approaching the end of another year and this is your annual reminder about taking year end farm inventories.

By Al Lowe
Contributor

The House of Commons has risen, another session of parliament is over, and the holiday season is ahead of us. I would like to use this space to recap some of our political accomplishments and events from the past year; and what a year it was!

Children write letters to Santa. Political leaders write to Santa. Community leaders have their wish list for the jolly old elf. And with the wish list, they also have a long list of acknowledgments for the blessings that have been bestowed on the communities they represent.