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

  • Nov 28 – Rotzy sings the praises of Junior T….first and only time!
  • Nov 23 – Gripin’ about the snow which ain’t here yet
  • Nov 14 – remembering on Nov. 11
  • Nov 7 – Classic Rotzy – a must read, for sure !
  • Oct 31 – He’s rantin’ and ravin’ all over the place….but then it’s Halloween, so whatever spirit moves ya!
  • Oct 24 – Voted yet? Ya gotta. Ya shoulda. Ya otta.
  • Oct 17 – Technology ain’t what it used to be.
  • Oct 10 – Miz Jo near death experience…but is totally back with us.
  • Oct 3 – A Chinese dinner of topics from health to car part thieves in his condo area to Putin and Canadian sanctions…and a food review to boot.
  • Sept 26 – really ranting about Russkies, and more….
  • Sept 19 – no vacation time for Rotzy
  • Sept 12 – Buckingham Palace…the new doghouse for Brit royalty?