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

  • Dec 21 – On the treadmill of stress and anxiety….huff huff huff
  • Dec 14 – Lookin’ back a lot…ranting maybe?
  • Dec 7 – Rotzy suffering: cabin fever, quarantine stress and pre-winter anxiety
  • Nov 30 – Covid, covid, covid
  • Nov 23 – Frosty the snowman in disguise
  • Nov 16 – They are remembered…
  • Nov 9 – Trump, Trump, Trump
  • Nov 2 – An election is going on? Huh? Where? When?
  • Oct 26 – Summer’s last gasp sets record one day temperature
  • Oct 19 – Mooses, masks and an orange monster
  • Oct 12 – Lockdown can go only 4 ways…
  • Oct 5 – “Nuts” all over the place