MANITOUWADGE, ON – Manitouwadge Public School’s littlest students just can’t understand why grownups grumble about snow, because once the plow has piled up enough of it they have a grand old time. These future luge Olympians discovered the snow hills behind our school and took [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Another fun and educational week at MPS! In one of these pictures you see group of our students proudly showing off a paper evidence of their achievement and winners of the monthly Character Goal award for Collaboration in the Classroom. All of our students achieved [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Friday, February 18th, Junior and Senior Kindergarten students, and their teachers, from Our Lady of Lourdes travelled, with the help of parent drivers, to Kiwissa Ski Centre for an afternoon of sliding and fun. Teachers had brought along crazy carpets while several [Read more]
Once I was in, although it hurt at first (very painful pins and needles, much more pronouced and sharper then the kind of pins & needles you might feel when your foot falls asleep) and my skin felt very uncomfortable, the heat went deep to make the pain back off somewhat or as they describe it in [Read more]
It is so exciting that spring is finally here. It’s been a long, long winter and I think everyone in Manitouwadge is ready for some blue skies and warmer temps, I certainly was ready for the snow to melt. The lake still has ice on it but not for long according to most people’s [Read more]
It is great to see just how much she trusts him, Emeraude began feeling weary of swinging last summer...much more impressive when she kept asking to sit on Lloyd so he could pump them so hard they were up side down ... [Read more]
Today was a great day. Easter morning was nice (Lloyd took a bit of video – will try to get it posted soon), our egg hunt was awesome and I took many photos (same as the video I will try to get these posted asap). The kids and I went to the Lion’s beach playground [Read more]
Well, Emeraude & I went sliding again today. It was AWESOME! So warm out we had a ton of fun (+ 1 crash which I survived suprisingly well lol). Lloyd is still sick, this morning it almost seemed like he was still getting worse which was really worrysome. I’m still not feeling very [Read more]
I had gone for my pain meds about an hour and a half earlier and was in pretty good shape so Emeraude & I went to the hill at Friends (bakery/coffeshop) and had a blast. It was so warm out I didn’t even need gloves, she was in a super sliding mood and had me [Read more]
Sunday, March 8th, was a beautiful day and I intended to take advantage of it and did! It took most of the day to get to the fun outside part but towards the end of the afternoon (after groceries and the hospital of course – more painwere finally on our way out into the snow. Lloyd [Read more]
Still having fatigue issues (living with 7 hour days at best) and needing too many trips to the ER for pain meds to be able to use what little time I do have living. I was so happy to make it out sliding with Emeraude yesterday (thanks to supper @ Mom’s that I didn’t need [Read more]
Frosty Days wound up Sunday with box races at the Kiwissa Ski Centre and snowmobile drag races on Manitouwadge Lake. Both events were very well attend and helped work up some big appetites for the bean supper held as a fundraiser by Manitouwadge’s Cancer Assistance Group. An enthusiastic crowd [Read more]
Congratulations once again to Ab Doyle who was presented with Citizen of the Year 2008! Here is the article which the Chronicle ran Sunday about the opening ceremonies (if you’re looking for it, it ran Sunday, Feb 22 under the title, Fun had at Frosty Days: Manitouwadge Celebrates Frosty Days [Read more]
Emeraude & I joined Lloyd for night skiing at the Kiwissa Ski Club tonight for the first time this year and WOW! it was beyond words… We had gone once last year but Emeraude had not enjoyed skiing in the dark as we had gone down the Bunny (our regular run) which was actually off [Read more]
