With each Christmas season, it can become increasingly difficult to find a gift for that someone who has everything.
This year, to cross those people off your list, it might be time to get them something that will help someone else in their name.
Every family has their own holiday traditions, or experiences from past holidays which stick out in their minds.
Christmas has become highly-commercialized, but for a few local seniors having tea and coffee last week at the Sister Kennedy Centre here, the simpler times definitely stick out.
There’s no stopping Christmas shopping.
Despite news last week that Ontario’s unemployment rate had jumped to 7.1 percent in November, local shoppers said the recession has had little effect on their buying patterns this holiday season.
A tour through local stores found customers with little worry—despite one retailer’s observation that sales are down this year.
Local aboriginal pre-school children are getting a jump start on elementary school thanks to the Zaagi-idiwin Aboriginal Head Start program.
Funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada, the program provides school readiness curriculum for children aged three-five, with an emphasis on aboriginal heritage and culture in the classroom.
There’s no denying the benefits of technology.
Where classrooms might have typically employed projectors and other forgotten gadgets, the use of computers in schools is now the norm.
And the Confederation College campus here is no exception.
Holiday cheer. Family gatherings. Furious shopping sprees, and meals to rival the best restaurant buffet.
In a word: Christmas.
People prepare for this time of year as though they were training for a marathon. Hours are put into cooking, baking, cleaning, shopping, and many other “Christmas” activities.
Not all the youngsters quite knew how to react Saturday during the annual “Cookies and Cocoa with Santa” event at the Fort Frances Museum. They were many unsure faces, and even a few tears, as Santa and Mrs.Claus greeted them.
Cookies and cocoa with Santa at the Fort Frances Museum on Saturday proved to be a success despite a few tears and apprehension of some of the youngsters. The event also featured Christmas books, decoration making, and all the tools needed to write letters to jolly St. Nick.
For youths who have grown up in the information age, using computers, digital cameras, and other technology comes as naturally as breathing.
But the same is not true for previous generations, who were not born into a world where Internet in schools and iPods were the norm.
It could be days before the cause is known of the explosion that blew panelling off the outside of the Atikokan generating station on Monday morning.
The blast was caused by a fire which started in the coal gallery, at the roof of the building where coal is handled, around 10:30 a.m.
Fortunately, all of the 40-50 workers on site at the time escaped injury.
