Category Archives: From NAKINA…

For more than 15 years, this curmudgeon has been writing a regular column for a provincial paper, Ontario News North. Never read it? Too bad. It circulates in the provincial regions north of Geralton, north of Terrace Bay….ok ok….way up above Lake Superior. Its claim to be a daily is as much an exaggeration as its claim to bringing people the news of the north. But one thing it did have up until about just a few years ago was a local resident writer who wrote its most popular column. “From Nakina” by Rotzy. This senior was and is amazingly young in mind and in thinking. Sports? He’ll keep ya laughing. Political world? He’ll split your sides. Social faux pas in the news by bigwigs? You’re very likely to enjoy Rotzy’s columns.

He and partner, Miz Jo, abandoned Nakina years back, Rotzy continues to make people laugh not only in the ONN but also on our website, BOOKz, COOKz, NOOKz at www.szpin.ca

  • OBIT
  • OBIT: Bob Rotz (Rotzy) April 6, 1945 – February 25, 2023
  • Feb 20 – Rotzy’s asking, “Ever hear of the signaling stalk on the steering wheel?”
  • Feb 6 – He’s not cantankerous. He’s dead on right !
  • Jan 30 – Judicial system GUILTY of inadequacies!
  • Jan 23 – He’s on a rollin’ rant again…penal, judicial, gamble(?)
  • JAN 16 – Cdn/ON penal systems, the pits pissing Rotzy off
  • Jan 9 – Rotzy pours cold water over a lot things this week!
  • Jan 2 – issuing in a new year, 2023, following a very questionable one, 2022
  • Dec 19 – From bury to merry…it Christmas time in Ontario again
  • Dec 12 – The Christmas gift of myrrh raises questions in Rotzy’s mind
  • Dec 6 – Car probs, convalescence probs, counting probs…