Only in the Bush

Well here is something unique to lac La Croix, Pay day Friday, or as the locals say with excitement "Half Day Fridays".

      Now there is a very good reason for this. If you recall the community is 76KM in from the highway and then another hour from Fort Frances Ontario. The community members need to take their pay cheques and head to Fort to deposit, or cash them, then do their grocery shopping. Because there isn't a store here in the community.

      So the big question you hear from community members on Wednesday and Thursday, "are you going into town on Friday" Not all of them have vehicles and many do not drive. SO they begin to plan their Friday carefully.

       Now for me I don't go to Fort I head home to Thunder Bay, a 3 hour drive, and then I lose an hour going as Thunder Bay is an hour ahead, until Daylight savings time. Its  a long drive, but it makes it easier to work away from home.

      So now the big question is will I even have any students this morning, If I don't then I get to leave shortly after 9 am, and that has be just as excited as the locals about Half Day Fridays!