Wayne Eyre, 71, considers himself lucky after falling off a roof two years ago. The retired paramedic broke his lower leg in five places and a nasty infection led to a below-knee amputation seven months later. But the head athletic trainer for the Nipissing Lakers...
I have mentioned The Country Roads Studio Tour which operated from 1980 to 2011. The tour brought together unique home-based businesses that featured art, traditional crafts as well as agri-businesses scattered across the rural landscape south and east of North Bay....
For years, North Bay has been known as “a hockey town” – after all we were one of the first “Hockeyville” winners – but I would posit the proposition that for much of its short history, it could just as logically be tabbed “a softball town”. To wit – for a period of...
The last Thursday of the month at 2:30 p.m. is a great time to catch up on history at the North Bay Museum. Now held both in-person upstairs and via Zoom, the 'Coffee and Conversations' meetings include slide show presentations of a subject after a "show and tell"...
“Clean living and healthful recreation” has been the mission of Rotary’s Camp Tillicum long before the South Shore property was donated to the service club in 1949. Thomas Palmer and James Nightingale bought the property in 1926 for the expressed purpose of providing...
With its wooden clapboard siding and wraparound porch, the house that our family moved into on Copeland Street in 1945 was an iconic small-town residence - the kind moviemakers seek out to convey a nostalgic ambiance. Think "The Waltons". Ubiquitous domestic...
People have all sorts of relationships they navigate through daily. Some last a lifetime, while others come and go. No two are exactly the same, which can be good and bad, as we juggle the unique needs in each one. We expect something out of our connections with...
There's a lot of junk online and it can be exhausting to sift through it. I understand your pain. My work takes me many places and it's getting harder and harder to keep my attention deficit in check. Making it worse for me, I'm a next level procrastinator. Especially...
Nestor Prisco, one of North Bay's unofficial historians, and I dropped by Antiques at Deegan's March 3 for a chat with 'Mr. Downtown' Ralph Diegel, 96. We talked about his youth growing up in Ferris, scouts, Camp Tillicum, cadets, his Second World War service in the...
The Nipissing Lakers women's hockey team has qualified as repeat contenders in the USports national championships after earning a second-straight berth in the OUA McCaw Cup final (the top two teams in Ontario go to the nationals, which are hosted in Montreal March...