By Walter Wagner
President

By Michael Dawber
Librarian/CEO

This Halloween, kids can Book-or-Treat at the Rainy River Public Library!
On October 31, the library will be giving away new books for your family.

News Release
Teamsters Union

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

By Jack Elliott
Contributor

By Gary Sliworsky
OMFA/MRA Rep.

This is the time of year to review your cow inventory and identify candidates for culling. Following are some culling tips.

By Al Lowe
Contributor

The Bufflehead is a very small duck, with the males weighing a pound and females still smaller.

On September 18, the Premier announced the creation of a Transit Investment Strategy Advisory Panel. According to the Ontario government’s news release, the purpose of the panel is to recommend “ways to fund public transit across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA)” by meeting “with stakeholders and residents in the GTHA to get input on Metrolinx’s recommendations.” The panel has also been given the mandate to look at other options to fund public transit and will report back to the government.

What do we know about ourselves? Even before we are born, medical records are being created about our well-being. From scrapes, and fractures, to colds, sniffles, tonsils, everything goes into our files. As adults, pregnancies, weight, and other afflictions are added along with x-rays, CT scans and surgeries.
Paralleling those records, schools gather information about us from the first day of Junior Kindergarten through to high school graduation. If we play athletics, then our participation in hockey, swimming, figure skating, curling, bowling etc. is recorded.

I remember my history teacher in high school, Marvin McDonald, talking about how man has put a lot of stock in recording things on paper and how that really is a foolish idea, since paper deteriorates over time.
Well in the past decade or so, more and more of what we record is not done on paper. It is in fact stored electronically. Perhaps on our personal computers, a disk or thumb drive, or at some remote location (in the clouds is what they call that).