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

  • June 1 – nuthin’ ’bout June being Seniors month
  • May 23 – The Lone Ranger rides Silver, the rototiller
  • Happy Victoria Day…..
  • May 11 – snowpeas, Snowbirds, and snowflakes…yikes
  • May 4 – Virtual reality
  • Apr 26 – COVID-19 and all that jazz
  • Apr. 20 – tuff times at COVID High
  • Apr 13 – Issues with toilet paper tissues
  • Apr. 6 – 75, a personal high!
  • Mar 23 – Trump, an easy target…but ya gotta be right
  • Mar. 16 – Corona of thorns
  • Mar 8 – a bear hug of a message if you can bear the last part
  • Mar 2 – Miz Jo, OK; Rotzy, not so much
  • Feb 24 – a sushi platter of news items
  • Feb 17 – maladies, melodies and melancholy
  • Feb 10 – Rotzy’s right on target…Super Bowl and Trump bowl
  • Feb 3 – a mite overdoing politics, maybe?
  • Jan 27 – confusion reigns in Ford education system country
  • Jan 20 – winter woes and dining out whines
  • Jan 13 – “mamby pamby and mamby pamby,” says Justin Trudeau
  • Jan. 6 – blitzkrieg on Blitzer
  • Dec 30 – Xmas slow down or the hangover lingers ?
  • Dec 23 – Nat, Dino, Frank…keep dreamin’ boys !
  • Dec 16 – Christmas seeping in everywhere
  • Dec 9 – Electric cars … shocking thoughts!
  • Dec 2 – Fraudsters and thieves everywhere
  • Nov 25 – Cherry picking continues…
  • Nov 18 – Cherry topper, snow know-how and unforgettable C&W lyrics
  • Nov 11 – puzzles, pizza and pizzazz
  • Nov. 4 – speedin’, dustin’, and football gripin’
  • Oct 21 – Indian summer, hooray!
  • Oct 14 – Do birds pee?
  • Oct 7 – 400 series highways are a pain…so too, Election 2019
  • Sept 30 – Fall down…Jays, Leafs, Timmies car lines…
  • Fall arrives, along with food festivals and music too
  • Sept. 16 – Jazz, Friday 13th, and gardening
  • Sept 9 – considering athletic engagement again…feeling his oats
  • Sept 2 – AI, iPhones, technology
  • Aug 26 – Grandson visits, mental surfin’
  • Aug. 19 – State of the Canadian union message
  • Aug 12 – mid-summer, mental meandering
  • AUG 5 – Patio living in Brantford
  • July 29 – What jobs do convicts work on now days?
  • July 22 – what bugs Rotzy about summer in Brantford
  • July 15 – Road rage heats up
  • July 8 – health update and more
  • July 8 – Bouncing back with summer arrival
  • July 1 – Ford, lawns, all complainable in Brantford
  • June 24 – Horwath suggests 14 yr olds should be able to vote
  • June 17 – Nice when the world unfolds as it should
  • June 11 – Somedays one should just stay in bed
  • June 5 – Man of the earth but soiling can go a bit too far.
  • May 27 – And the spring’s back in Rotzy’s step
  • May 20 – Spring is back…whew !
  • May 13 – Rainy spring taking its toll on us all
  • May 6 – Oh spring where are you?
  • Apr. 30 – Maple Leafs…never ?
  • Apr. 22 – Easter bunny….at Queen’s Park ?
  • Apr. 15 – Taking another bite, but easier and less painful now
  • Apr. 8 – Re Bites, Re Biden and Ray-BOULD
  • Apr. 1 – COME ON EARLY SPRING; GO AWAY HORN HONKERS
  • Mar. 25 – DENTAL ISSUES, COMPUTER UPDATING
  • Mar. 18 – Jerk of the year, spring floods, oh oh teeth
  • Mar. 11 – Jerk of the year, Spring come on
  • Mar. 4 – Memory fading, Elevator know how
  • Feb. 25 – Winter fatigue, On Golden Pond
  • Feb. 18 – Weather, Spring and more weather
  • Feb.11 – Power interruptions, Old appliances
  • Feb. 3 – Ford shot down, Philip stop driving
  • Jan. 28 – Snow removal, The Weather Channel
  • Jan. 21 – Perfect Storm, Boots, Florida
  • Jan. 14 – Nakina winters, Hydro One
  • Dec. 31 Nostalgia, Xmas party
  • Post Christmas edition
  • Dec. 17 – Dog’s world, On smoking
  • Damaged ‘bird’ finger, regretting sale of firearm….
  • Dec. 3
  • Nov. 26
  • Nov. 19
  • Nov. 12
  • Nov. 5
  • Rotzy’s ‘Southern slaw’ from Ontario’s northern country
  • Oct. 21
  • Discoverin’ more and more about the new digs…
  • Moving to more southern climes!
  • Sept 26 (in advance)
  • Sept. 16
  • Sept. 9
  • Tributes, eulogies, celebrations and post mortems…
  • August 26
  • Aug. 20
  • Memories of the CNE from the 1950’s
  • Aug. 5
  • July 30
  • July 23
  • July 15
  • July 1
  • June 9
  • May 21
  • May 14
  • May 7
  • April 30
  • April 23
  • APRIL 16
  • April 6
  • April 2 – not likely an April Fool Joke ??
  • April 1
  • Mar. 15
  • Mar. 5
  • Feb 26
  • Week #7 Feb 19
  • Trials and tribulations of living in a northern town
  • WK Feb 5
  • Week of Jan. 29
  • Week of Jan 15
  • Another great writer enters our fold in 2018
  • Bob Rotz’s BIO