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By Al Lowe
Contributor

By Gary Sliworsky
Ag. Rep.

Today (Monday) is the first day of campaigning for the Ontario election that will be held on October 10. Although this may be the first day of electioneering, the candidates have been out on the stump since Dalton McGinty sent everyone home last May.
Over the course of the summer we have witnessed the non election....election. Without much fanfare, Howard Hampton was officially nominated by the New Democrat Party to again represent Kenora Rainy River. His nomination came on the heels of Penny Lucas nomination for the Conservatives and Mike Wood representing the Liberals.

By Jeanette Armstrong
SFG

By Jack Elliott
Correspondent

Some marital relationships get can pretty staid with about the only excitement happening when the cat gets its tail caught under the rocking chair.

By Joanne Fieldseth
WOTM

Baudette Moose Lodge and Women of the Moose will meet together on Sunday, September 9th at 2 pm to honor members with years of membership.

Submitted by
Ken Boshcoff M.P.

September is upon us and with that is the return to colleges and universities by thousands of Canadian students.

By Al Lowe
Contributor

Here is a funny looking little bird, hard to see, hard to shoot, and with a lot of its sense organs out of place.

By Gary Sliworsky
Ag. Rep.

While driving around the district in the past few weeks I have seen that round bales are often still sitting where they were dropped by the baler.

While Oxford and Webster’s dictionaries continue to add hundreds of new words to their dictionaries, my mind is trying to erase the words my memory. The dictionaries get thicker, and the Scripps National Spelling Bee that is now annually televised have young people able to spell the most arcane and obscure of words. And they keep adding more words all the time.
I keep a small dictionary inside my top drawer to provide spelling assistance when my mind draws a blank. It hasn’t been updated since I bought it back in the early 1970’s.