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Positive thoughts for your family Cliff. A difficult time for all of you I'm sure and no apologies necessary.

Fantastic news Lew!! All the best for a quick recovery for Diane!

Hope you are having a great day! Happy Birthday!!

Henry is still up to his old tricks eh...

A little trick that works great if you have 2 people at a less than perfect launch is to push the vehicle out with the boat. One guy driving the tow vehicle and the other pushing with the outboard in gear and throttle down as much as needed. My buddy had truck issues and had left pulling his boat out until the last minute. I had a Nissan Kingcab with a 4 cylinder engine, RWD and his boat was a 20ft bassboat with a 200 on it. Snow covered gravel launch with a gentle slope and I thought there was no way of getting his boat out and not having me put the truck in the lake. I got the trailer in the lake with no issues and waited for him to arrive with the boat. Got the boat on the trailer and with the push from the outboard I pulled him out and towed him a few doors down the road to his house. Not necessarily doable at every launch but this one had some depth for the outboard to do the work and not wreck the skeg or prop. I've used that trick a few times since. Now with the 4x4, I don't have any issues and really don't think I could do without it.

X2 Was stuck a few times with my FWD. Switched to RWD vehicle and never had a problem at those same launches. I'd get the AWD for piece of mind as well if you can afford to do so.

Some impressive looking fish there and congrats to your son on whooping your butt! lol. Great report!

Nothing wrong with that fish! Beauty!

Nice to see mother nature got things sorted out.

Hoping for nothing but good news from the doctors Wayne. Love that slide!

There are a ton of lakes in Zone 15 open for specks and lakers all year long. I guess we don't know all the areas we fish all that well with regards to the rules and regs. Myself included. http://files.ontario.ca/environment-and-energy/fishing/mnr_e001334.pdf Some nice fish there Bowslayer101

A great recap of a great season! That will help ease the winter blues when watching it in February. Thanks for taking the time to put that together.

X3 An Incredible lady!

Nice to hear things finally went ahead today. All the best for a speedy recovery Jen!

Very cool Shawn. I'm a fan of the Scotty line of products.

Unbelievable!! The frustration and anger level must be through the roof. Surely they can all get their crap together tomorrow for everyone's sake. Positive thoughts still flowing.

Terry is so bloody smart, I strive to be like him one day. LOL! Nice report Brian.

Some sweet looking fish Dave! I can put up with mildly annoyed if there's room for another. lol!

I'd call that a great season, and a nice mixed bag of fish too. Thanks for the report and good to see you on hear again.

I need to get back up there. Another incredible report Mike!!

What a nice clean fish!! Congrats on your son's PB!!

Great to hear that things are going well so far Bernie. Sounds like you are enjoying the change and that's a good thing.

Thanks for the update Wayne, can't imagine the stress and emotions your family is going through with these delays. Fingers and toes crossed that it will happen today. Positive thoughts and prayers don't stop coming your way.

By Allison Roy Tribune It’s been quite the ride for Randy Kirkwood after he began project FreeCycle in September 2012, repairing and giving out hundreds of bikes to those in need in the community. “I always saw kids walking home from school beside a person who was riding a bike really slowly, and I told myself ‘well that kid needs a bike’,” he recalls. He quickly followed up the thought with action, and put out a call for used bikes on Facebook, not really knowing what to expect. Within a week, he received about 25 bikes! Some were in good shape, some not, so he worked to fix them all up like new, and gave them all away. “The following year I asked on Facebook again, in 2013, in the Spring. I must have gotten maybe 120 bikes that summer, and I managed to give away 103,” he recounts. “This Spring I asked for more bikes (…), I must have had 200 bikes this year, and I’m up to 144 so far [that I’ve] fixed and given away.” Over time, word spread, and while donations grew, so did demand. People contacted him to build bikes for certain individuals who could not afford them, and many in need of a bike also contacted him through Facebook. “It’s amazing,” he says of the response from the community, adding that the donators deserve as much thanks as he does. westnipissing.com Français “Had it not been for those people, I wouldn’t have all the bikes to repair to give away, so it’s full circle.” Kirkwood says that in the first year, volunteers from high school helped out, but those volunteers kind of fizzled out. “This summer, most of my son’s friends had their 40 hours done and also they have a summer job, so pretty much this year I’ve done everything alone,” he shares. “Unfortunately this is my last year.” Kirkwood explains that he does not have a garage and with the weather this year, he really got behind on orders for bikes. “I had to pump them out either way,” he says, adding that he created a shelter in his back yard for a while. “I managed to get some bikes out that way and it also takes a lot of time. All the free time that I had, I spent on bikes and I could have been spending it at the beach with my daughter or camping or this and that.” He admits that repairing bikes is very time consuming, adding that some bikes could take up to 3 hours to repair, and others just 10 minutes. He estimates that in total, he has volunteered about 500 hours for the project. Any funds he received went back into parts, so the reward was in helping people out

Well a lot of people on this board have done a lot of good things over the years. This morning I came upon this article on Facebook from the Tribune and thought that it should be shared with our community here. You've got a heart of gold Randy, good on ya!!! The world could use more people like you. http://www.westnipissing.com/A_knack_for_giving.html